Show THE Q STRIKE KE OVER IT OUGHT to be as gratifying to the public at large ai as it is to the parties immediately interested interested that the long strike on the chicago burlington quincy railroad system is practically at an end the story 0 of ahls chis protracted san struggle i agle is too well kno known wn and thoroughly understood to need rp repetition petition what it ha has cost in dollars and bents to employers and employed can nevet never be i told nor can the sum total be even approximately stated to say millions leaves the question as aa open as ever since all know that it ran many degrees beyond one million and it is for the sake of making a statement of some kind regard regarding ipg it proper to say that it has even gone beyond tens of millions and antei entered ed the division of numerical finances described by nine figures the burden of this great loss has been borne by y the railroad workers of the united states chiefly the engi engineers but they have of course received sympathetic assistance from the others others those who were actually out of work had bad to be maintained and those who were at worl work on that or any other system had necessarily to contribute to that end this out cut down incomes all along the line hue and tended to stimulate the stubbornness of those who were not at work the strikers themselves by such means they have been able to hold out until the ae company compan came to teresor term sor or at least me met I 1 them half halfway way a conference at t chicago hi cago con convening a fe few w days a ago go a the result a while it looked as if nothing would be accomplished but this ww wg a ped perfectly oatly natu natural ral development and to be loo looked ked for at first each side aide would would make its it greatest demands of course and thus they would beon begin i their i deliberations widely apart but y As 99 they pro progressed gassed andade sian after another wea waft made on the th part pa af pf p wh each they cama nearer together andt jast bording tp ahei dispatches a conclusion waa reached or at least agreed upon this waft oa on ju jan 4 and the of that conclusion was to be ma made dp next day jt 1 49 iss a happy ort coane for the company than for the themen While they have managed of late to keep mo moat s of their bior was miming runci ng on time the schedule hae w had to be changed and part of odthe the time inexperienced men employed by of numerous wrecks more or less ieee serious occurred life ad property being 4 e thua rendered dered insecure would naturally nat brolly baue pau ge patronage t 4 drift from fro in the th e burlington ba run gun to other buntos juntos a low jose in 1 q delf and in ia many basee ca of course a permanent peyman one add to all this loss of prestige and inai influence and the distressing dip position of the company mi can be more nearly understood AS set out A 4 has hais been a losing game on both bih sides the understanding just arrived at might as well have bave taken plage place out one month as one year after the outbreak since it at must have been apparent to even the observer that each of the disputants was sos soi j well backed one way and ana another that protraction meant increased ano and 14 increasing creasing losses but agthe as the ox od adage has if better late than never and perhaps it may have hate A useful purpose in serving asa as a warn ing to others hereafter |