Show CAR MEN WALK OUT IN CHICAGO ALL AVAILABLE ROLLING STOCK IS PRESSED INTO SERVICE MANY FORCED TO WALK police order makes many avenues one way thoroughfare but jam Is helpless in the early morning hours coleazo Ch leazo twenty thousand motormen conductors and guards on surface and elevated lines went on strike at 4 tuesday morning and the greater part of tile the forcing working portion of Chi cagos nearly persons were forced to seek improvised transportation por tation As usual all rollin colllns stock available including evert every variety of wheeled pu or motorized vehicle was inadequate and uio the brunt of the traffic fell on shanks mare thousands started early afoot and irom from gaall before dawn streets and avenues leading to the business and manufacturing districts seethed with pedestrians streets in the down tonn town n district automatically became one way thoroughfares hut but even that hint action ly by the police department was not enough to avoid badly tangled jams of traffic hundreds of jitney busses from surrounding ro towns were in the job with the break of day having been summoned days awo ago by charles C fitzmorris chief of police when a strike appeared to be inevitable the walkout really began at 11 monday night when the bur surface carmen ending runs at that hour took their cars to the barns from then on as runs were finished the motor mio mien and conductors left off work and in the early hours of the morning the number of cars on the streets gradually dwindled to zero negotiations haie hae been under way between the surface line workers and the surface line ownes tor for several sevell days after posting of an order for a wage reduction of approximately 17 per cent all efforts to bring about an agreement between the company and the workmen were announced as failures late monday the elevated employees who had called a meeting for tuesday night unanimously voted ta cooperate in the strike monday night early tuesday carpenters went over the elevated lines boarding up the entrances to the stations the surface lines tunnels beneath the chicago river also were boarded up tip ond and guards placed around the entrances |