Today in History, 1937: Fargo mayor and city commission step in to ease truck strike

On this day in 1937, Fargo Mayor F. O. Olsen intervened in a regional trucking strike, but union workers unanimously rejected his proposal for a three-week truce. Here is the complete story as it appeared in the paper that day: MAYOR ENTERS TRUCK STRIKE City Commission Acting In Interest Of General Public PROPOSAL REJECTED Union Delegates Vote 100 Per Cent Against Plan Presented Mayor F. O. Olsen and the Fargo city commission, acting in the interests of the general public, stepped into the Fargo truck traffic strike situation Tuesday in an effort, thus far fruitless, to bring about a working truce. Representatives of the employers and of local 116 were called into a meeting with the city commission, and this proposal was submitted by Mayor Olsen: A three weeks truce be declared, effective with men going back to work today. Negotiations continue between the groups, and whatever wage scale was finally arrived at, become retroactive. In view of the im