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Show 1 GENERAL WOOD TO HANDLE DENVER STRIKE DENVER, Aug. 9. Reservations were made at a local hotel yesterday for Ma J. Oen. Leonard Wood and staff, who, It was said, vrlll arrive tonight. Colonel Ballou declared he was without official notification that I the general was coming'. Striking' trainmen of the , Denver Tramway company, at a mass meeting meet-ing yesterday, declined to return to work until company officials met their demands that they be allowed to resume their duties in a body and discharged the strikebreakers. The company haB refused to treat with the union. No formal voto was taken at the meeting on the question of continuance continu-ance of the strike. By acclamation the men accepted a suggestion of their leaders that tho matter bo left In tho hands of their executlvo committee com-mittee and their attorney, Wayne C. Williams, Henry Sllberg, president of tho union said the men wcro going go-ing to "stand pat" on their demands, de-mands, and that no more mass meetings meet-ings would bo called by tho oxecu-tlvo oxecu-tlvo committee until It "had some concrcto proposition to present tu, the mon." Whllo trey wore mooting, Btreet car servlco wn3 resumed In Denver. Trains wore' manned by strikebreakers. strikebreak-ers. Behind each car was nn nuto-mobllo nuto-mobllo loaded with tederal troops, carrying service rifles and trench guns. Tho troopers wore steel hol-nietB. hol-nietB. Sixty cars on fourteen of tho thlrty-flvo lines of the city wero op-crated. op-crated. No attempt was made to Interfere. Tho normal dally service is 385 cars. ., I J '"' Five hundred picked federal troops of the Seventieth division from Camp Funston, Kansas, reach-j reach-j ed hero at C o'clock yesterday morn ing. They came Into the city quiet Ily and marched to tho city auditor-lum, auditor-lum, whero they wore quartered. There were no demonstrations. Seven officials of tho union aro to appear tomorrow afternooon before be-fore Judge Greeley W. Whftford In the district court for sentence on a charge of contempt. Judge Whit-ford Whit-ford found them guilty last Friday for calling tho strike In violation of fcn Injunction granted city officials. It was Indicated tonight that the union officials would contend they had called off tho strlko with certain conditions and thoy could not bo blamed because tho company had ro-fused ro-fused to accept tho union proposal that tho men bo taken back as a body and tho strikebreakers bo discharged , Fresldent Sllberg made the following follow-ing statement tonight: "Everything Is moving along nicely. We hopo to make satisfactory satisfac-tory arrangements for our men to go back to work. AbMo from the meeting this morning wo havo dono nothing today. All our men havo been ordered to Btny homo ca that no charges of being Implicated In tho bloodshed may bo brought nga-inst nga-inst thonw Tho company has only to meet our conditions and tho men will bo tack Dii tho cars." Tho cart bognn to, outer tho barns for the night at C o'clock this evening. even-ing. Tho Inst car was ordorpd to bo in tho barns by 8 o'clock. I Tho orders to slop operating tho I enrs at dark wero Issued by tramway '1 olTlrlala, upon suggestion of Colonel 1 Ballou, In command of tho federal I troops In tlio city, who said such ac- 1 tlon would mlnlmlzo tho danger of I inciting fresh disturbances, I Tramway officials said that tho Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii cars would bo kept In servlco adlttlo later each succeeding night until normal servlco baa noon restored. Tho mon tomorrow will voto to return to work without any restrictions restric-tions logardlng strikebreakers or the union ncoordlng to Wayne C. Williams nttorney for the strlkors. Mr. Williams made Ills prodlotion following a conforonco with city nnd company nfllclala. Ho also predicted that normal servlco would bo available within two days with the old employees manning tho cars. |