| Show MOTOR TRUCKS REPLACE STREET STREETCARS STREETCARS CARS IN CHICAGO So Many Vehicles of Every Description Used to Carry Passengers That Traffic Is Worse Congested Than Ever NEW NE MEN BEING ENGAGED BY RAILWAY COMPANIES Both Sides Reject Offer of Mediation Mediation U. U. U S. S Court Orders Orders Orders Or Or- ders Oak Park Line Receiver to Resume Operation at Once I MASSES FORCED TO WALK I 1 MAY REACH AGREEMENT I Iro I TO ro o ARBITRATE DIFFERENCES Chicago hmo 1 10 Elevated Ele and surface e c mr nr company officials j jand I I I I and representatives e of the striking I j I car in tuen en were at midnight ht I II I to be near an agreement ug to urb arbi- arbi I Thc They had bad been in iu session session I I I with Mayor 1301 Thompson and the I council strike committee since t tI i early arh in the afternoon I I it 11 It t looks hopeful s said i Mayor I i 1 A woul wouldn nt t bo he surprised sur- sur suri j i I to sec ec ce the the- men back at the I I cars in twenty four foul v hours I C CHICAGO Tune June 15 The The second lay day of the strike of street car carmen men nien here herc passed with Avith th the elevated companies running occasional trains over O part of its system and continued complete tie up of the surface e lines j Only a n few minor acts of violence were reported in in connection with the operation of the tho elevated trains which carried few p passengers and aud mn made e ir irregular irregular ir- ir r- r re regular st stops ps Prospects of the thc United States government gov gov- o overseeing ing the opel operation o othe of the Oak Park division sion of the elevated elc system 8 were seen in an order b by C. 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C nat judge of the United United States circuit court of appeals directing Samuel Instill Insull receiver for the Chicago Chi Chi- cago Oak Park Elevated railroad to resume sume operation at once and to report II any unlawful interference or obstruction by any ally persons whomsoever ever er for such action as the court ma may dc deem Icem m proper In the meantime the great mas mass masa of oC the population walked to work vork or rode In automobiles steam trains or busses bUse which Included vehicles of or all aU description tion ranging ln from the tho converted Ice wagon to the hugo huge hugo deliver delivery motor trucks with T scats for forty or fifty pasS pas pas- S sen en gc ers rs Contention In spite of oC the lie absence of or street cars can worse orso congested than over ever before before and tonight police officials were attempting to work out a scheme of regulation to con control trot motor cars which have ha been running through the shopping shopping shop shop- ping pinS quarters In the heart of oC the city An effort ma may be made mado to keep the cars from Crom entering the downtown streets and 11 provide pro stations sta Just outside outs where thc they can cnn discharge and receive o gers sers order came carne Just be before before be- be 01 fore the tho close of court toda today and was wag taken at nt the 1 Instance o of Briton n I. I ana aim Samuel Insull re receiver re- re of or the Oak Park elevated ele re-I re Provision Pro also wa was made In the tho order 1 for fair treatment of or the employees 1 who have vo gone one on strike In the tho direction dirce ion tion that the tho receiver shall furnish to the court all Information as ns to the facts and In which tho the was called The order also the management man man- to operate atc tho the trains h by the best Lest means obtainable Consequently the receiver Is directed to resume operation op op- op without delay employing such mch men as may be available for the purpose pur pur- Of pose pos The direction to lo employ such men menas menas as 05 ma may be available Is contradictory to toan toan an fin ordinance passed last night b by the city council which Mayor Thompson hus has not yet 81 signed ned It restricts the employment of oC motormen to men who have Jmie hall had twenty one days days' instruction on the tho Chicago lines under tinder an Instructor tor or who ho has worked on the Chicago lines hues for a year car and prohibits the employment employment employment em em- of or con conductors who have havo not had fourteen days days' similar Instruction Heine from eastern labor centers are arc th that t numerous strikebreakers are on their wa way vay hero hore from rom tho lie east enst Several Soy Sev eral hundred recruited in this city are aro housed In outlying barns Tho The council committee of oC five named last nl night ht headed by Mayor Thompson spent shout tho thu afternoon In conference with labor leaders headers At nl night ht tho ho of officials officials ot- ot joined the meeting and tho ho prolonged prolonged pro pro- lont longed d discussion lon gaves saves rl rise o to hope that lint a n settlement was In sight Traction Trac tion ion officials rejected the offer oUe of or the tho state tato hoard of or mediation Union officials orrl- orrl dais to whom the same offer oCter was made mado Ignored It The Tue Illinois senate after a n alively alively lI el lively session ps lon at t Springfield directed the state public utilities commission to tomake tomake make an nn Immediate Investigation In of oC the strike with a view to bringing about bout a n settlement |
