After a month-long shutdown and three weeks of deadlocked discussions, the Order of Railroad Telegraphers last week ended its strike against the Chicago & North Western Railway. For farmers and factories along the C. & N. W.'s 10,702mile, nine-state route, the settlement came none too soon. Since 1,000 telegraphers walked out to protest the elimination of small stations—and the obsolescent jobs in them—by the fourth longest U.S. railroad, the Midwest has lost millions in unshipped crops and unfilled orders.
The settlement that was finally reached in Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz's Washington office in some respects favored the railroad....
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