McMurry, Great Burlington Strike, 19-23, 42-45.
For 1886 negotiations, see Notes Taken during a Discussion between Mr. Potter and Committee of Engineers with Potter, Copy, March 21, 1886, 33, 1880, 3.13.21, CB&Q.
JCP to Perkins, Feb. 17, 1888, 33, 1880, 9.11, no. 2, CB&Q.
H. B. Stone to Perkins, Feb. 18, 1888, Table . . . What Full Rate Engineers Would Have Received in 1887, n.d., 1888, 33, 1880, 9.11, no. 2, CB&Q.
McMurry, Great Burlington Strike, 41.
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.