Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-02
MOTORS CARRY
HALF MILLION
AS CARS STOP
Automobiles Save Day
in Chicago; Carmen :.
Still Out.

Chicago. Aug With 25.0O0 street
car and elevated road employees on
strike. paralyzing all electric transpor-
tation for the third time in the city, .
history, all of Chicago motored or
walked Tuesday.
While men and women. old and
young, crowded the pavements and
store corners. everything from babies
go-carts and grandpa's wheel chair to
the latest thing in automobiles crowded
the streets and moved the crowds with
amazing facilities and with little in
convenience.
1t was the automobiles great tri-
ump, according to traffic policemen.
who expressed growing wonder as
the day wore on at the ease with
which the motor fleets had meet and
apparently solved the tremendous
problem of moving hundreds of thou
sands of persons to and from their
work.
With the street cars out of the way
and n system of one-way traffic signs
installed through the loop" the police
reported less than the usual conges-
ton. department store crowds showed
no diminution and workers reached
their places of employment on time in
the great majority of instances.
Due to the great numbers of cars
pressed into service, according to the
police, there were several accidents,
some of them serious and resulting
in the injury of nearly a dozen per-
sons and the death of one man, who
was struck By a passing car while
trying to board a waiting jitney.'
1t was estimated that more than
10000 motor vehicles were brought
into service and that, with the help Of
the steam roads and "Shank's mare"
they carried the $4,000 persons usu-
ally transported by the elevated roads
and the 100000 daily patrons of the
surface lines.
No steps toward a settlement had
been made by either side Tuesday
night, although the executives of the
roads indicated their willingness to re-
sumo negotiations with the union lead
ers. The surface lines workers are
striking for a higher wage than the
surface lines have offered them and for
a continuation Of the eight hour day
The elevated men want an extension
of their present wage agreement.
Twenty thousand motormen, conduc
tors and guards on surface and elevat
I'd lines went on strike at 4 O'Clock
morning and the greater part
Of the working portion of Chicago's
nearly 5000. 900 persons were forced to
seek improvised transportation.
As usual all rolling stock available +
every variety of wheeled !
pushable Or motorized vehicle. /
was inadequate and the brunt of the
.raffic fell on "Shank's mare" Thou /
sands started early afoot and from well /
before dawn streets and avenues lead |
ng to the business and manufacturing !
districts seethed with pedestrians |
Streets in the downtown district auto !
natically became one-way thorough |!
ares. But even that action. fostercd /!
~ the police department. was not /
,nough to avoid badly tangled jams of /
raffic
Hundreds of jitney busses from sur |
'ounding towns were on the job with |
he break of day. having been sum
noned days ago " Charles c. Fitz-
norris. chief of police. when a strike
ppeared to be inevitable.
The walkout really began at II
. M Monday night, when the surface
ar men. ending runs nj that hour.
ook their cars to the barns. From
hen on. as runs were finished. the
lotormen and conductors ceased work
nd in the carly hours of the morning
he number of cars on the streets
dwindled to zero.
Negotiations have been under way
etween the surface line workers and
he surface line owners for several
ays. after posting of an order for
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