OCR Text |
Show PREDICT STRIKE TO END Street Car Men Begin Voting Early to Re-cind Re-cind Walkout. CHICAGO, Aug. 1. Surface and elevated ele-vated street car men began voting at 8 o'clock this morning on a proposition to rescind the strike vote taken at a mass meeting of 6000 of their 15,000 union membership and acceptance of a compromise wage scale agreed upon by union and company heads last Monday. Mon-day. Leaders of the men were confident confi-dent the referendum vote would result in resumption of street car service to-morrow to-morrow morning. On Monday afternoon a conference of company and union representatives reached a compromise of 67 cents an hour in wages for surface men and i7 ( ents for elevated men. a raise from 48 cents an hour for surface and 51 cents for elevated men. A few hours later this compromise wage scale was presented for acceptance or rejection at a mass meeting of the men. At the meeting the union leaders were hooted down by members said to be radicals and with shouts the compromise wage scale was rejected and a strike vote fcr 4 o'clock on Tuesday morning. The walkout became effective on Tuesday morning and since the tie-up of local transportation has been complete. Conservative leaders of the street car men have claimed the vote did not represent the majority of the union membership but merely the radical element ele-ment in the organization. |