Show EXPRESS COMPANIES LOSE TO Recognition of Union Shorter Hours and Better Beter Pay Granted Now York April AIrl 14 After ACer H.-ACer After a five days' days conference that lasted Jasted fi Crom Monday until Friday in the Wells ell Fargo FarJo building tho the threatened strike of or of or thirteen teen express companies operating In tho the Metropolitan t tan taut district was amicably settled victory vic ic tor tory being on Oil tIme the side of th the e men The who iho were perfectly ll or organized gained Increase In iii pay r re reduction re- re from 1 12 2 to 10 hours hour and recognition of ot their union They Thoy had plo preparations all al ready realy for fora a strike May Ila 1 1 Heretofore the companies com corn panics ha had refuse m all al demands Express all ol over o er the country coun coun- try tm-s' were with these Ulese in the time Greater eater New N York district anti and so o complete was the organization that men as us well wolf as drivers ho hostlers t train me messengers an and amid route agents wore were Included in the time demands The companies represented were tho the United States American ican Adams dam Pa- Pa cHic Long Island IHland New e York Boston slon Despatch Columbia Dunlap Monahans Mona Mona- hans and the Puller Fuller company These would have hel been n affected within a a ra radius radius ra- ra r- r dius of o twenty live twenty n miles mies 1 of or New ew York |