Show LOS ANGELES STREET CAR CARMEN CARMEN MEN STRIKE Walkout Fails to Inconvenience Inconvenience Inconvenience Passengers Schedules Schedules Sched- Sched ules vIes Maintained 13 By Br United Press Pre LOS ANGE ANGELES LES Nov 24 Eighteen 24 Eighteen hundred union of or the Los Angeles Railway company struck today today today to to- day without apparently disrupting servi service service ser ser- vi vice e or inconveniencing the passengers who use the company's street streit cars and buses dail daily Street cars ran practically on sched sched- ule The peak of the morning traffic period passed without downtown office office of of- fice lice workers experiencing appreciable delay in getting to their work The members of ot the Amalgamated Association of ot Street StreetCar StreetCar StreetCar Car and Electric Railway struck for higher wages following a a. a m. m mass meeting in n labor Jabor tempI tem tem- pI plc They had offered to arbitrate dif dU dif dif- The company refused claiming claiming claim claim- ing lag revenues were insufficient to pay any increased wage should arbitrators tors tars grant it H. Use Persuasion Only Picket Pickel captains led squads of ot union men to each of the company's five carbarns under orders to use persuasion persua sion alone in preventing movement of cars By the time the mass meeting ended ended end end- ed with an oral strike vote at 4 a. a m. m however many of th the street cars al already already al al- ready were on n their early morning routes Others barns on schedule schedule sched sched- ule and passengers passengers found usual facilities fa Ia- between 7 and 9 a. a m. m the peak hours of ot the morning P. P E. E Harris vice pr president ident of the r railway il Yay pra Lalm d 1 uninterrupted t- t s service ht en rec tar Ear 8 arid and d seven b bus s run rue did didi not nt go out he ic said Otherwise th the th company claimed normal service Pickets Optimistic lc No statement was issued by the llie union Pickets on duty at Hie car carbarns barns however were optimistic A detail of policemen was was' stationed at each barn but no violence was reported On one line trolleys were pulled from cars delaying them about five minutes This was thc the only only incident report reported d. d |