Jeremy Brecher, Strike (Boston: South End Press, 1997), 48.
Official History, 8, 17-20, 23-24.
Cassity, "Modernization and Social Crisis," 53.
Adams to Callaway, March 26, 1886, UP, PO, OC, vol. 33, ser. 2, r. 28.
Calvert to Holdrege, April 3, 1886, Holdrege to Potter, April 6, 1886, Potter to Perkins, April 12, 1886, CB&Q, 33 1880 3.1.
C. Crocker to CPH, Nov. 29, 1887, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 46.
For the defeat of the strike, Official History, 38.
Donald LeCrone McMurry, The Great Burlington Strike of 1888: A Case History in Labor Relations (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1956), 35-36.
Buchanan, Labor Agitator, 306-10.
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.