The men in all other departments were taken back with but few exceptions, but it was now a settled fact that the switchmen must look elsewhere for employment.
In order to remedy this, he promulgated a plan of federation whereby all the different organizations, engineers, firemen, conductors, trainmen and switchmen would stand as a unit in case of a grievance.
The switchmen promised to refuse to handle boycotted freight if the road would support them in case of discharge, which they well knew was inevitable.
Later a committee of switchmen called on the central committee for instructions and were told not to move the freight under any conditions.
The refusal usually came from the switchmen who refused to make up trains with the Pullman equipment.
At Union Stock Yards all switchmen and assistant yard masters were out, and at the yard of the Street Stable Car Co.
The firemen, switchmen and other employes of the Grand Trunk called a meeting, and after denouncing the action of the engineers, voted to stand by the American Railway Union to the end.
On the St. Paul & Duluth the men as a whole refused to strike, a few firemen and switchmen left their positions at the call but did not seriously affect the operation of trains.
Through John Downey and Miles Barrett, of the Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association, a meeting of switchmen was called in a hall at Eden to induce the switchmen to return to work.
This proposition the strikers would not accept, not caring to sacrifice a few loyal switchmen whose places could be easily filled if the rest of the employes remained at work.
The yard trackmen were all out, as were also the Illinois Central switchmen and the Rock Island machinists and boiler makers.
The switchmen refused to couple on the Pullman's and were discharged.
Thirteen Pan Handle switchmen brought to Chicago from Pittsburg through misrepresentation, when informed of the true state of affairs, refused to go to work, and demanded transportation back to Pittsburg.
It will be remembered that prior to the switchmen engaging in this strike, an agreement had been made with them that as long as the strike lasted they were to be paid the same wages that were paid to the engineers.
That engineers, firemen and switchmen would be treated alike in the matter of re-employment.
Previous to these letters, the Chairman of the switchmen had written to Cleveland to make inquiry about the October pay.
The engineer keeps his window closed, to shut out the taunts of passers-by, and the switchmen are left to take their chances.
Besler, dated March 25, to the effect that the switchmen would not again be employed by the Burlington company.
These letters were to the effect, that after the October payment had been made, the switchmen were to be stricken from the payrolls; that the late Convention had made no provision for the further payment of these men.
When the yard engineers refused to handle "Q" cars they were at once joined by the switchmen and yardmasters (including the General Yardmaster).
Messengers were immediately dispatched over the system to notify the switchmen what action had at last been decided upon, and these, with few exceptions, took the same course as was taken by their Chicago brethren.
Before the firemen adjourned, the switchmenhad met in Convention.
Be it said to the everlasting honor of the engineers, firemen and switchmenon the C.
Trainmen and switchmen must not couple to or move cars that are being loaded or unloaded on side tracks without first ascertaining whether anyone is in or about such cars and giving them ample notice that same are to be moved.
The failure to observe these rules is the cause of as much, if not more, criticism and profanity on the part of the public than almost any other one thing that train and switchmen do.
Train, engine or switchmen going between or under cars or engines to make repairs, chain up or examination must protect themselves in the same way by use of red flag or red light.
Time hung heavily upon him, and at night he joined the switchmen and certain young men of leisure in the town in a more or less friendly game of poker in the rooms at the head of the dark stairway on South Main Street.
You, Morton, and you, Toohey, wereswitchmen here under me when I was yard-master six years ago.
Switchmen came in later, but they barely noticed me until I excused my bold entrance, and frankly confessed that I was looking for work.
It was plain to the switchmen that I was not a tramp, and my subdued manners evidently made a good impression also.
Stumbling over tracks and dodging switch engines, I made my way to what turned out to be the yardmaster's headquarters; his office was upstairs in the dingy wooden building, while below was a warm room where switchmen could rest.
There was no need of assaulting switchmen when they could so readily block the tracks.
Whether friends of the striking switchmen and trainmen or not, there could be no question about the number of so-called sympathizers.
Some one signed a solemn compact in which the engineers bound themselves to support the switchmen--paying them as often as the engine-men drew money--and the switchmen went out.
Here the engine-men, trainmen and switchmen met, but the radical element was in the majority, and the suggestions of the heads of the various Brotherhoods that the strike be called off were howled down by the unterrified.
The brakemen refused to join the engine-men, though sympathizing with them, but the switchmen were easily persuaded.
He knew the danger of slamming a train through stations without a ray of light to warn switchmen and others, but he could not bring himself to send the boy out to the front end in that storm the way she was rolling.
When the hour arrived the switchmen threw up their caps and quit.
In this battle the switchmen were the bravest of the brave.
The managers cannot play switchmen more than one night, and no men they hire dare attempt to work in your places--if you're the men I take you to be.
And on stormy nights switchmen in the Zanesville yards, smoking in their shanties, still tell of that night, that storm, and how Ben Buckley threw Second Seventy-Seven at the foot of Beverly Hill.
On rainy Sundays oldswitchmen in the Zanesville yards still tell in their shanties of the night the Blackwood bridge went out and Cameron's stock-train got away on the hill, with the Denver flyer caught at the foot like a rat in a trap.
Here are two of the reasons why I have just called the walk-out of the railroad switchmen one of the simplest and the most logical of all the strikes in the country.
Yet remember that the switchmen were not the only aggrieved parties to this situation--this seemingly impossible situation that has quickly become an actuality.
It is not of record that the voices of the car inspectors and the switchmen on the outside have awakened any more passengers than usual on account of such omission.
In shoving long cuts of cars without using air, get your brakemen and switchmen to feel a pride in setting a hand brake on the end car to take the slack and save the jerk on the drawbars.
If not trained, your switchmen will throw every switch possible beforehand so as to be ready.
The Trainmen and the Switchmen provide that the beneficiary fund shall be used exclusively in paying death and disability claims.
Even now the Switchmen and the Trainmen offer equal amounts to members of all ages at the same rate.
The Switchmen include "the loss of four fingers of one hand, at or above the second joint.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "switchmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
