The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-30
CHICAGO Carmen
WILL TAKE Vote
ON STRIKE plan
Referendum to Determine
Union Action-Traffic Con-
gestion is Reduced.
(By Associated Presa1

CHICAGO, July 30-Strike-bound
Chicago found hope of relief in the
announcement today that chiefs of the
surface and elevated mems unions
planned q 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 fifteen thousand: the attendance at
the meeting where the strike vote pas
sed over protest OF the leaders was
5000. 1t was stated that another
twenty-four hours may pass before the
referendum vote can be completed.
Meanwhile the tie up on this. the
second day Of the strike. was as COM
plete as on yesterday. the first day
of the walkout. Officials Of the COM
panies said no effort would be made
to run cars with the aid Of strike
breakers; that they would simply wait
until the situation has cleared some
what before taking any action. Lead
ers Of the unions Of surface and ele-
waited men awaited the arrival Of w.
ID. Mahon, president OF the 1nterna-
tional Union of Street Car men. who
had been summoned from Detroit be.
fore putting into operation the refer
endum vote which the conservative
element believes will result In show
ing that the strike vote does not rep
resent the majority Of the union
membership.
Working Chicago found its way t.
{ business today by the various method'
I brought into service yesterday ou
the congestion to traffic was great!
q reduced. Four hundred business mel
organized for the purpose and provo
ed with the authority OF star oil
n duty as traffic officers. every avail
9 able policeman being on riot duty. o.
l. the first day Of the strike with tra1
II fio officers on riot duty. conveyanc
9 of all kinds crowded together at stree
l. Intersections while autoists sounde
It their horns and teamsters shouted az
e iura tions, each that the other mlgf
: get out of the way.
e Railroads Arc Crowded.
le Notices were issued calling on aut'
d mobile drivers to observe speed reg'
1t lations wholly disregarded yesterda
m and also urging automobile owners
IN aid pedestrians by conveying them
~ the direction in which the driver wa
e. bound. This "help Chicago" motto
er brought gratifying response the o
ficials said Operators of vehicle
converted into passenger conveyance
found cause for complaint when not
fled by forty deputy collectors sci
from the United States internal re
Is enue collectors office that they wou
be compelled to pay government ts
of SO placed on all conveyances use
- for the purpose OF carrying passen
o. ers.
he Even the long lines of pedestrian
o. who trudged down town, many carr
Ill ing coats on one arm and hats in han
Of had not lost any Of the good hum
&c, with which the conditions were 6
ull cepted on the first day Of the strih
'et All the big mercantile establishmen
1t gave notice through the public prin
he Of increased telephone facilities a,
urged their customers to do thu
shopping by telephone, and the
ports from many of them were tt
the purchasing public seemed to
responding to the purchase by phon
ia notice.
Every railroad entering the c
ts brought into use its entire passeni
re. equipment and ran many addition
m. trains. to accommodate the suburb
ais. population. Railroads running W
to- OF the city were taxed to their cap
lon ity. q strike during the early morn
,rk hours of several hundred employees
oy. the Aurora, Elgin and Chicago Ell
on tric railway sending traffic fr
western suburbs to the steam roa