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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Telegraphers in the press section clicked wordy comment on the stability of Mexico's new government, wired that at last a Mexican President had been inaugurated without bloodshed or attempted assassination.

From Time Magazine Archive

Telegraphers, working night and day over the few lines that were not down, flooded the dry portions of the earth with news of the aqueous catastrophe: The British Isles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Order of Railroad Telegraphers was staging a strike whose impact was felt far beyond the line's 10,702 miles of track.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus, the Telegraphers were almost annihilated, while the Firemen and the Conductors practically maintained their position.

From Beneficiary Features of American Trade Unions by Kennedy, James B.