Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-30
NEW VOTE MAY END
CHICAGO CAR T|E.UP
Lines Refuse to Send Out
STANDARDIZATION
Traffic Duty.
TELEPHONE USE EXTENDS

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 30.-Strike-bound
Chicago found hope Of relief in the
announcement today that chiefs Of the
surface and elevated mems unions
planned a referendum vote OF the en-
tire union membership to determine
whether the strike vote taken at last
Monday nights mass meeting should
be sustained.
The union membership is $4,000; the
attendance at the meeting where the
strike vote passed over protest Of the
leaders was 5000. It was stated that
another twenty-four hours may pass
before the referendum vote can De
completed.
Tie-Up Still Complete.
Meanwhile the tie-up today. the Sec
ond day of the strike, was Is complete
as on yesterday, the first day Of the
walkout. Officials Of the companies
said no effort would be made to run
cars with the aid Of strikebreakers:
that they would simply wait until the
situation had cleared somewhat before
taking any action.
w. d. Mahon, international presi-
dent Of the Street Car Employees
Union, upon his arrival in Chicago
today, took personal charge OF the
strike, and promised to do everything
in his power to settle the dispute
without unnecessary delay. He came
from his home in Detroit In answer
to a summons from the officials OF the
local unions.
His first action was to send letter
11 vi hnp
executive committee Of the local union
calling a co16erence at O'Clock this
afternoon. President MsIhon said he
wanted to learn from the local lead
ers every detail OF the union mass
meeting which resulted In the calling
of the strike. He declined to discuss
the situation until after he had OBJ
tanned this Information.
May Urge Vote on Compromise.
It is believed that he win urge the
union to talxe<a referendum vote On
the compromise offer OF the transpor-.
tation lines granting q maximum
scale of SIS cents an hour to the en-
ployes OF surface lines and 81 cents
to the elevated road men. with an
eight-hour day and time and hah
for overtime.
At O'Clock this afternoon Presi-
dent Mahon will confer with Gov.
Gals Of the street car lines.
working Chicago found its way to
business today by the various methods
brought into service YESTERDAY. put
the congestion to traffic was greatly
reduced. Four hundred business men
yided with the authority Of star,
did duty as traffic officers, every avail
able policeman being on riot duty. On
the first day Of the strike, with trafic
officers on riot duty, conyeyanceS OF
all kinds crowded together at street
Intersections. while autOists sounded
their horns and transfers shouted adj
iurations, each that the other might
get out Of the way.
"Help Chicago" Notice.
Notices were issued calling on auto
mobile drivers to observe speed regu-
lations, wholly disregarded' yesterday.
and also urging automobile owners to
aid pedestrians by conveying them in
the direction in which the driver was
bound This Help Chicago" notice
brought gratifying response. the Of
ficials said.
Operators Of vehicles converted into
passenger conveyances found cause
for complaint when notified by forty
deputy collectors, sent from the
United States internal revenue collec-
tors office, that they WOu1Q De COM
PEELED to pay a government tax Of $40,
placed on all conveyances used for the
purpose Of carrying passengers.
Even the long lines Of pedestrians who
trudged downtown, many carrying coats
on one arm and hats in hand, had not
lost any Of the good hunor with which
the conditions were accepted on the hrSt
day Of the strike.
Use Of Telephone.
All the big mercantile establishments
gave notice through the public prints Of
Increased telephone facilities and urged
their customers to do their shopping by
telephone, and the reports from many
of them were that the purchasing pub
lie seemed to be responding to the
purchase by phone" notice.
Every railroad entering the city
brought into use its entire passenger
equipment and ran many additional
trains to accommodate the suburban
population. Railroads running west OF
the city were taxed to their capacity. a
strike during the early morning hours
Of several hundred employees OF the
Aurora, Elgin and Chicago Electric
railway sending traffic from western
suburbs to the steam roads.