Retrospective lessons on railway strikes, United Kingdom

Preface

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IN giving a short preface to the pages of this book,

let me first say that my entire efforts and intentions

are towards the development and progress of the

5 South of Ireland and its labour. That I have met

with severe opposition goes without saying in trying

fto do so, but let me add in the words of Carlyle —

•'Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another,

but set with one another, and all against the evil tiling

' only" "A certain amount of opposition is a great

"*" help to a man. Kites rise against, and not with the

wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No

", man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead

calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of

"** opposition, opposition is what he wants and must

I have to be good for anything. Hardship is the native

; soil of manhood and self-reliance. He that cannot

himself in the sunshine, and lies down by the wayside

to be overlooked and forgotten. He who but braces

himself to the struggle when the winds blow, gives up

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when they have done, and falls asleep in the stillness that follows."

Now these are not my words, but I quote them : —

" Be just in all thy actions, and if joined With those that are not, never change thy mind ; If ought obstruct thy course, yet stand not still, But wind about till thou hast topp'd the hill. To the same end men several paths may tread, As many doors into one temple lead.

And the same hand into a fist may close, Which instantly a palm expanded shows."

I hope to merit a share of blame as well as praise for this work, while still holding to the Level rail, and Broad gauge line of discipline and duty.

E. J. O'B. CROKER.

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ERRATA.

Page 78, line 15, Cork Police Office Proceedings.

For " under the

14th and 15th Victoria,"

read "

3rd

and

4th

Victoria."

Page

For " When was

that time of going out ?

" read

"When

was

that timed to

go out ? "

ILLUSTRATIONS.

The 1 1. 20 a.m. Day Mail from Cork

The Chetvvynd Viaduct

Kinsale Junction

Bandon Station

Albert Quay Terminus, Cork . .

(Advance party cf Strikers walking out of Station.)

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53 55 59

Bandon Barracks (No. 1) 67

Bandon Barracks (No. 2) . . . . . . . . . . 69

The S.S. " Innisfallen " 73

Clonakilty Junction . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

The Broken Rail between Cork and Waterfall (2 views) 158, 159

Durimanway Station . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

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RETROSPECTIVE LESSONS

ON

RAILWAY STRIKES.