Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-11 | Page 12 | Toledo Tramps to Work Afoot

TOLEDO TRAMPS TO i0RK AFOOT City Council Refuses to Revoke Re-voke Traction Company Ouster Ordinance. By Universal Service. TOLEDO, Ohio, Nov. 10. The city council coun-cil tonight by a vote of 12 to 2 refused to revoke the ouster ordinance forbidding the Rail-Light company from operating ita street cars on the ci ty streets and which caused. Henry L, Doherty to remove re-move the cars into Michigan. Mayor Schreiber, addressing the council, coun-cil, said President Coates of the company had given him his word last Wednesday that the cars would not be removed until ordered by the city. Mr. Coates, in a statement, denied that he had broken faith with the city. The citizens of Toledo were quick to adjust themselves to the earless condition today and, despite the withdrawal of the cars from the city streets, the industries of the city reported a normal Monday roster of workers in most of the plants. The hastily arranged volunteer motor transport corps of the city and the quick cooperation of the citizens who owned automobiles au-tomobiles made possible the normal showing show-ing in factories, the manufacturers said. When the army of workers, 100,000 strong, started for factory, shop and office this morning it found that the employers had opened bus lines; that tlie city was starting a, transportation line and that .litneys were on the job in large numbers. num-bers. Perfected arrangements will be in effect cn Tuesday and it was optimistically stated that the throngs will be handled as efficiently with autos as they were with cars.