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WILL GO TO FOREIGN LANDS,Blacklisted Railway Men Unable to Ob* tain Work Will Leave the Country.St. Paul, Winn., Aug. 20.—As a result of their connection with the recent strike a large number of the railroad men in this city are making arrangements to leave this country, claiming they have been placed on the blacklist of all the railroads and can secure no plaoes, no matter whether there are vacancies or not. About forty of these men have made preliminary arrangements to go to the Cape of Good Hope and Johannesburg, South Africa, and others are talking quite seriously of going to BraziL Hard times here, work elsewhere and cheap transportation influence them, although they claim that the principle cause is- that they are marked men and have no chance whatever of employment in this country. 'The men are given a notice by’each road for which they worked stating that they have so worked, but in the notices now given many of them occurs the phrase: “lieft the service on account of the strike, June 80, 1804.” The men have no other form of recommendation and say that this is simply a warning to other com-papies not to employ them.State Boiler Inspector Clark is giving the men, for their use in foreign. , countries* a note stating their proficiency a» engineers or firemen,, and with each a letter from. Gov. Nelson confirming their citizenship as Americans. Many of the engineers have secured certificates from Inspector Clark and will run threshingmachines-this, year, while many more are looking for jpbs on stationary engines*. There are between 800' and 400 suchmen in St. Paul and as- many more- in i Minneapolis. j ' 1
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Lyons Weekly Mirror
Rock Rapids, Iowa, US
Sat, Aug 25, 1894
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