Show ICA TRI f END NO NON SOON N Chicago Sees Hope of I Ea Early Early ly Settlement of Traction Troubles I I to Ballot Ballot Tomorrow Ie GO July 31 Toiling Toiling Chi ago today found cheer i in in the pr r that t the streetcar mj ht ht cud 1 soon and that IbY by Satur Saturday y workers could again ride to and fro on elevated and surface surface surface sur sur- face cars So the thousands who wh have come downtown on trucks or by their own motive motive power and gone home as best they could bo bore e good humor- humor edly eMy the inconvenience ler e forced upon them by the paral paralysis sis of ot local transportation transportation transportation trans trans- I lines Possibility of the near solution of the strike came with the announcement announcement announcement announce announce- ment that the surface and elevated elevated ele ele- men on strike since Tuesday morning would ballot tomorrow au on whether to accept the wage scale agreed upon last Monday by their representatives an of the companies companies com com- and rejected that same night com I at a meeting of carm carmen n. n The plan of ot the union leaders for a referendum referendum ref ref- vote of the entire union ref ref-I m membership met the approval of WD W W. D D. Mahon International president of j the carmen's union on his arrival I I from rom Detroit and immediate preparations preparations for balloting were begun I I VOTE NOT REPRESENTATIVE The meeting at which the compromise compromise compromise compro compro- mise wage schedule of 65 cents an hour lour for surface men and 67 61 for elevated elevated elevated ele ele- ele- ele with an hour eight-hour day and overtime of or time and a half was re rejected rejected rejected re- re by a viva voce vote was las not representative the leaders claimed They asserted the meeting had been dominated by the radical element of or orthe the union membership and that the I conservative element had been given no opportunity to express itself On those representations International International International I President Mahon ordered the I referendum vote which may result in acceptance ce of or the new wage schedule schedule schedule sched sched- ule and the consequent end of the strike Mr Mahon and William Quinlan president of the surface mens men's division divIsion division divi divI- sion of the union nion and William Mylan Mylan Mylan My- My lan president of the elevated division division divi divi- sion stated today todar that they were confident elevated and surface trains I would be running lunning again on Saturday morning |