Strike Breaker Ends Three Day Stint With Railways
An English writer recounts a three day experience as a strike breaker for the United Railways of San Francisco with frequent attacks by strikers. He notes the effort did not amount to graft or gain.
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Newspaper
Albuquerque Evening Citizen
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1907
Page
6
An English writer recounts a three day experience as a strike breaker for the United Railways of San Francisco with frequent attacks by strikers. He notes the effort did not amount to graft or gain.
A foreign journalist disguised as a conductor describes life inside Patrick Calhoun s strikebreaker operation in San Francisco. Non union workers are housed in car barns with guards, while an English writer named Landor recalls his first day on a strikebreakers run and wary, tense conditions with little violence so far.
An eyewitness recounts a clash at a car barn where strikebreakers and regular workers faced off. He describes brutal acts, factional divides, and the harsh routines of daily life for laborers, with talk of pay, recruitment, and future plans in New York.
The writer praises a remedy from Darmstadt Germany as a perfected, dependable prescription for rheumatism. He asserts that with a key ingredient added to pure water, "cand-like" waste dissolves and passes from the system, erasing the disease and offering a lasting cure.
A collage of patent medicine pitches and ads appears with warnings about deafness cures and claims from Hall s Catarrh Cure. Side items promote shoes at C May s Store and King s New Discovery for throat and lung relief praised by Mrs Julia Ryder Paine of Turro Mass.
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