Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1911 — HOW I STARTED A STRIKE. [ARTICLE]

HOW I STARTED A STRIKE.

By William JLorlmer, United States Senator from Illinois. Thirty-nine years ago I came to Chicago; and the first job I held in the line of railroading was on a street railroad. I began as conductor, and I want to say that it is the best school in the world for studying human nature. * You can learn more about people and their grievances on the end of a street-car than in any other way. In those days we had to work from sixteen to eighteen hours a day, and were paid one-half as much money as the men are now paid who work only twelve hours a day. I was deeply interested in the social life of the rail(From The Railroad Man’s Magazine August, 1910.)