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Show liTjEniEll Attempt Being Made to Elf Trouble Between 1). & R. and Employees. w DENVER ORGANIZATIONS 1 INTERESTED IN THE MATHS i , Union Men Hold Meeting to Dig ' cuss Opinions of Their 'j l Leaders. i i- ' iA The first movo toward a settlement j tho strike of the men cmployod in ti l mechanical department of the Denvi l & liio Grande Itailway company made in Denver, Tuesday. ; '" A conference lasting several hou'j was held between President E. 1 L, Scsholtz of the Denver Chamber Jl Commerce and M. J. McQnoenee, roprt ; seating District No. 20 of the macWj ists union; William Jfanjipn, 7 president , of the international maclui , lifts' union; George IT. Kavkenaal i representing the blacksmiths'' councMi' and II. C. Klein, representing the boil makers' and helpers' internationi union, to canvass the situation and I if thero were any grounds upon whli a settlement of tho strike could he e I foctcd. f The representatives of tho union m i seated to President Scholtr. the torn I upon which the men would return ! work. These showed several modlflcj -tions of the former contract which il I railroad abrogated. ', Strikers Hold Meeting. X .l President Scholtz will in turn preaei lc those to the railroad officials in tl '! hoo that; a basis can be reached npd 7( which to arbitrate the differences. "', The regular daily mooting of )' strikers was held in the Federation ! Labor hall. Tuesday afternoon. Tl speeches of Mr. Franklin and J( Moachler. members of the general art tration committee at Denver, woS talked over and tho men decided to a point a committee to take the matt up with the Commercial club and tl business men in general to sco if semi thinp cannot be done to effect an u mediate settlement of the strike. A letter was recoived from the sctr tan' of the Helper branch of the boili makers stating that the strike-breaks the railroad company had employed': i the shops had, after working Iss thi a week, refused lo work under the ae ? rules and quit. y fJ Shops Being Worked. f d A cominilteo representing all of tl J railroad men's unions in the connti g including the locomotive engineers' ?j " firemen s unions, is in couteronco wi , officials of the Gould system in tl J3ast.and a general striko of the elevi f unions may do called in caso the pre I cut striking unions fail to agreo to) I Kottlomont of the present trouble. i J Tho card system is still in vogue i 1 the Salt Lak"e shops, and the officinj say that it is proving highly succcssfll Seventy-five men, twenty-five of who) ? were helpers and apprentices, were ; work in the shops, Tuesday, and 11 officials of the road say they are proi gi ing highly successful and areturnli ont 03 many repaired engines as undi 5 the old regime. $ ifr |