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Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Railroads -- Employees -- Periodicals Railroads -- United States -- Employees
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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haveany bad luck, Ill finish inabout two years. How much insurancedo you carry, said the con-ductor, toprotect:your wifeand babies and your home? Sixteen hundred withthe Brotherhood, repliedthe brakeman. Listen partner, saidthe conductor, as he steppedover and sat down in frontof the brakeman, with hishand resting on his knee, this is your first trip withme, and I want to talk toyou seriously. Going to make a rail-road man of that boy? You bet I am, it is agood business. Do you want him to bethe same kind of a railroadman that you are? Oh, I dont know,replied the brakeman with-out raising his eyes, Imnot so worse. Lets see about that,sa d the conductor, as helighted his pipe and settledhimself for his customaryconversation with new men. As this engine was coming downfrom the roundhouse through theyard this morning, I saw you ridingon the pilot. Do you want that boyof yours to be a pilot rider, a violatorof the rules? When we were shifting our traina while ago, I spoke to you about ad-
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This is the splendid cover of the August issue of the Chesapeake and Ohiaccompanying it, a strong appeal for safety was made, and we are glad to io Employes Magazine. With thereproduce with full credit to the C. article4 O Baltimore and Ohio Magazine, November, 1921 27 justing coupler with your foot as carswere about to come together. How does it strike you to imaginethe fellows bringing that boy of yourshome a few years from now, with hisfoot crushed off, because he was try-ing to be a railroad man just likedad? The other boys tell me you are inthe habit of going between movingcars, adjusting couplers in front ofmoving cars and doing a number ofother dangerous things where a singleslip would mean your death. In what sort of a fix do you thinkyou would leave that wife and thosekids in the house on the hill if youshould make that slip, with only six-teen hundred dollars between themand the loss of that home ? How do you like the idea of yourwife leaving the kids with the neigh-bors and

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