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Show GAS AND SOAPSUDS WEAPONS USED ON STRIKERS DENVER SEEKS 10E1TIEUP OFCAR SERViCE Armed Strikebreakers Meet With Opposition When Op- peration Commenced ; i DENVER, Colo., Aug 4. Three i Ifdrcet cars, loaded with stnkebreak ! ers, were running today on the lines of the Denver Tram-way company, whose one thousand trainmen are on' strike for hlshe.- wages. No passenger.' were carried. The' strikebreakers were aimed Several limes the crews repelled attempts to l stop cars by usin Carbonic gas mixed with soapsuds. 1 DENVER; Colo.. Au 4 - -Contempt j i roceedlngs It: the- district court against striking union employes of the traction trac-tion company were continued until i') 0 clock tomorrow, when they ;iMked for' time to prepare their COSS today. They , c ! limed that they were not served until late yesterday. Company officials said they would eend cars into the streets within a" short time The power has been turn-, ed on and the motors can be hoard , running from the inside of the barns. Members of labor organizations, representing a majority of the ettjr'si organized labor, will "formally demand of Mayor liallev tomorrow withdraw- j al of pidice protection of s;reet cars! and banishment ftom the city of lm-1 ported strikebreakers on pain of a general strike, according to an article, lo be published In tomorrow's Kocky ; I Mountain News. I The decision was reached at a strce: moss meeting tonight according to the ; Slews, and follows the first attempt 'late today lo operate -street cars since I the striRe began Sunday. The street car made two trips thru the busines ssectlon. accoinpained by twenty armed strikebreakers and two) automobiles filled with policemen. ' Some bricks were thrown and a switch 1 broken six arrests were made. |