The Chicago and Northwestern had also pursued this policy in the early 1880s.
G. W. Holdrege to Perkins, Feb. 18, 1888, Table . . . What Full Rate Engineers Would Have Received in 1887.
McMurry, Great Burlington Strike, 39-40.
McMurry, Great Burlington Strike, 45-69
won't strike, F. C. Rice to J. D. Besler, Genl. Superintendent, Feb. 20, 1886, Strike, 1888, 33, 1880, 9.11, nos. 12, CB&Q.
Book of Telegrams, HRS (loose notes, appear to be notes and drafts for CB&Q Official History), Strike, 1888, 33, 1880, 9.11, nos. 12, Platts, July 21, 1888, CB&Q.
Salvatore, Eugene Debs, 75-76.
McMurry, Great Burlington Strike, 257-61.
C. D. Dorman to J. L. Lathrop, May 9, 1888, 33, 1880, 3.1, CB&Q.
Perkins to Forbes, April 28, 1878, 3 F 3.23.3, J. M. Forbes, In-letters, private from C. E. Perkins, CB&Q.
Proctor, Not without Honor, 236.
Richard Overton, Perkins/Budd: Railway Statesmen of the Burlington (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982), 44-45, 58-59.