G. W. Holdrege to Perkins, Feb. 18, 1888, C. E. Perkins to Stone, Feb. 21, 1888, Perkins to Peasley, Feb. 20, 1888, Perkins to Arthur and Sargent, Feb. 24, 1884, Strike 1888, 33, 1880, 9.11, no. 2, CB&Q.
Licht, Working for the Railroad, 260-61.
The managers in negotiations cherry-picked certain routes to claim that the workers were asking for unjustifiable gains.
Stone et al. to S. E. Hoge and J. H. Murphy, Feb. 17, 1888.
Table . . . What Full Rate Engineers Would Have Received in 1887.
McMurry, Great Burlington Strike, 64.
Table . . . Miles Run by Full Rate Engineers, n.d., 1888, 33, 1880, 9.11, no. 2, CB&Q. For the CB&Q, passenger engineers the average pay in cents per mile was, main line 3.44, branch 3.26; for freight, main line 4.23, branch 3.9; for B&M passenger, main line 3.17, branch 3.36; for freight, main line 4.27, branch 4.30.
Table . . .What Full Rate Engineers Would Have Received in 1887 . . . (Strikers Demands), n.d., 1888., 33, 1880, 9.11, no. 2, CB&Q.
Stromquist, Generation of Boomers, 135.
Notes Taken during a Discussion between Mr. Potter and Committee of Engineers, March 20, 1886, also Afternoon Session, March 20, 1886, 33, 1880, 3.1, CB&Q.