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.
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.
Adams certainly sought to influence Congress, but he used government directors and only a few agents.
Adams to George Hoar, Feb. 9, 1885, Adams to Moorfield Storey, Feb. 9, 1885, UP, PO, OC, vol. 27, ser. 2, r. 23.
Adams to Storey, Dec. 1, 1884, UP, PO, OC, vol. 23, ser. 2, r. 20.