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Show TROOPS BRING TANKS TO STOP FURTHER RIOTS Strikers Agree to Return If Company Ousts All Strikebreakers Strike-breakers MANAGER REFUSES TO DEAL WITH EMPLOYES Meeting Called to Consider Corporation's Attitude Forbidden For-bidden By Colonel DENVER, Aug 7. At a conference) itenlght of military, state nnd civil j authorities It was decided to start, 'street pars running on every line In' I the city at 8 o'clock tomorrow morn- ing. Present at the conference wore Col.. C. C. Ballou, commander of the troops' now on duty here; Mayor Dewey C. ! I Bailey, Joseph E Moorehead. secre-1 tar to Governor Shupe and "Slack I Jack" Jerome, leader of the strike-j j bi t ukei s. Sixty cars will be In regular opera-1 ftion by tomorrow nignt, it was 1 planned at the conference. They will be manned by strikebreakers. Armod guards, pqsted on every car which has ! r iinric piif'.Ttt Kiirnw lnn. .the.. Strike I vas"flWHToa; wHf"T5e dispensed with. The crews will not he armed. TROOPS TO GUARJJ. I Police will not follow the cars in I a utomobiles. as they have done on all I previous efforts to operate the tramway tram-way system. Tho routes the cars will take, however, will be puti oiled by tile troops now here and those ox-pected ox-pected early in the morning from Camp Eunstoo, Kans. 1 ne cars will most certainly carry passengers," Mayor Bailey said. With every downtown street pa- K . M A 4 ..,4 .....II guards, tioops on duty at ever) car barn, and squads of special police all every station awaiting rush tails. Den-! vi r was comparative! v quiet tonight. POLft E BTONtHD. PoIk.- answered a few riot calls, but they proved groundless. There were, ho concerted attempts at destruction, I such its marked Thursday and Friday nights, when six persons were killed: and fifty injured. Gatherings on street corners were, promptly dispersed. Bight automobiles bearing policemen police-men were stoned while answering a; riot call at the plant of the Denver Ges and Electric company. They pro-1 reeded to the plant and dispersed', small crowds There was no concert-' ed attack on the building and no op-1 position was met. M ill IM, liN ED. DENVER, Colo. Aug. 7. Colonel I C. C, Ballou, in command of federal' troops In Denver, this afternoon refused re-fused to permit striking car men to, gather at 5:0 o'clock this afternoon to vote finally on calling off the strike, on the lines of the Kenver tramway, i Colone; Ballou forbade tne meeting' because he considered it unwise to permit so many men to gather in a1 hall ut that hour of the evening. Earlier Earl-ier in Ihe da the commanding office-had office-had Issued orders forbidding all public pub-lic assemblage. t n n:i:i ti i a I Colonel Ballou promised union lead-iers lead-iers that If there was no rioting tonight he would permit them to meet, at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning Meanwhile1 Frederick W. Hlld, general manager of the company, announced 'We will not I deal with the union ' At a mer-tinx this morning th men-voted men-voted to return to work if the tramway tram-way company met certain conditions! One was that the men would be permitted per-mitted to come buck In a body, Another An-other was that strike breakers should be diseh.irged by the company while a third culled for a working agreement between the union and tho company. When the meeting of men adjourned adjourn-ed before noon, it was agreed that they would gather at 6:30 o'clock this afternoon to hear the uttltudc of the I company and vote finally on calling off of the strike. Following the meeting meet-ing of union men, company officials declined to treat with the union. WILL OPERATE FRIDAY At a conference participated in by city officials and officers of the trani-vav trani-vav companj this afternoon, Hlld gave assurances that street cars would be operated tomorrow. These will be I manned by strike-breakers. No cars were operated today Illhl announced tho company was prepnred to take back many of its old employes as Individuals and said he would Issue a statement later telling them where they might apply for their old positions. Hlld declared the union men forfeited for-feited all rlghl to a part In company affairs when they struck and asserted they would he dealt with as Individuals Individ-uals only. He also declared the company com-pany would discharge no strikebreakers. strike-breakers. TROOPS ON GUARD With two hundred and fifty federal troops In tho city tonight from Port Logan, and two thousand American i (Continued on l'ngo Two.) i Troops Bring Tanks to ; Stop Further Riots I (Continued From Page One.; Legion members; special officers and'H regular police under arms, of flclals i H had made eluborate preparations to ! H8 prevent recurrence of rioting that 1 marked the nights of Thurso i and Friday and which cost the lives of tl j K men and injurj of fifty -thr. i other H persons Including women and chll-1 jjH dren. A largo number of the troopers were I W. grouped at the Kast Side cur barns, H cene of rioting last night, while the aem Ittiuawder were at the city auditorium m awaiting orders American Legion ' KM members patrolled the outskirts of the I m& cliv Long lines of motor cars filled jftjj with policemen aimed with eavscd-off H shot guns and rifles were mobilized at'SSS the city hall. Mayor L'alic appeal.., aM to citizens to keep off downtown j Dnj streets. J The city was quiet at fi o'clock. I M There had been no disturbances all ' tpflj Slay and authorities considered they BH had the situation well in hand t T.WKs M QREN 11 s The exact time of the arrival of five fljfl hundred troops which left Camp Fun- HM ston at 2.10 o'clock this morning was Btj unknown Whippet tanks, hand gren-1 fSM ades. one pounders firing shrapnel i BB shells and saivtd off shotguns arr- be- BB Ing brought to Denver by these troops. BJ Major L. L. Pell who preceded the JU Camp l'unston soldler.s to Denver to I fljfl make arrangements for f.helr accom-j Bfl modatlon.-i, conferred with Governor I Bfl Shoup and Mayor Iiallev The troops fl will be Quartered at the city auditor- ' HH 1 u m . ' 'y Tents wre set up en top of the tramway building tonight to house ad- jftj dlttonal strike breakers who reaehc' NH the city today |