Stock Yard Settlement

County highway patrols last week scoured the countryside around Chicago looking for a wanted man. They found him finally upon the golf course of Olympia Fields Country Club and led him, not to jail, but to a telephone. The wanted man was Federal Judge Philip L. Sullivan. The person who wanted him, at the other end of the telephone line, was General Hugh S. Johnson. The reason the Judge was wanted: the General had just settled Chicago's Stock Yards strike (TIME, Aug. 6).

The strike developed because of labor dissatisfaction with the terms of an arbitration award made by Judge Sullivan in settlement of a similar strike last November. For 36 hours General Johnson sweated with the disputants, got the Union Stock Yards & Transit Co. to promise a minimum of 48 hours work to its regular handlers during every week that 4,000 carloads of livestock were received. All other questions in dispute were again left to Judge Sullivan's decision. Despite his interrupted golf game, the Judge listened to General Johnson's plea, agreed to act again.

General Johnson hung up the receiver and dusted his hands. A strike as easy to settle as that was hardly a worthy labor for such a Herculean strike settler. He went back to the Drake Hotel, next day celebrated his 52nd birthday by eating a cake neatly frosted with a Blue Eagle.

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