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Show these same tcrmj through tho mayor last Friday at his request and adhere to thni now at his request" Before the agreement was signer the day had been turbulent and full of statements and counter Plate men is. More Rioting Than Before I There was more rioting than at any other time during the ttti ike. John Williams, the state commissioner commission-er of labor, threatened an ofllcial Investigation In-vestigation if matters did not mend, j to which II. S. Julier, general manager man-ager of tho American Kxprcas com- pany, replied that his company would welcome all tho publicity poswlblo. ! Counsel for the Adams, the United States and tho Wells-Fargo companies I obtained an order fioru Judge Cox in the United States circuit court, directing direct-ing the city to show cause tomorrow why U should not be restrained from i enforcing the ordlnnnce which re-i re-i quires carriers of Interstate express , matter to take out city licences. Applications for Licenses. 1 Two hundred applications for licenses li-censes were filed In each case t!ie I applicant was- required to state whe'h- er or not he had ever been convicted i of a crime or whether he carried ! arms. ! It was directly due to Mayor Gay-' Gay-' nor's attitude that the agreement w;u ; drawn up and signed. Ijxm night ti e I companies Issued and today printed In the advertising columns f the news-I news-I papers a long statement defining their pos.tlon "When I came to the office," the mayor said, "and was shown the pub- llshed statement of the express companies, com-panies, I saw that If boiled down it meant the samo as the terms the men ! agreed to last week on my request. I Bent for Mr Towne and asked him to I reduce It to 6uch a gbort form and seo if the eipress companies would n't sign it He did o and they all signed "I then brought together the committee com-mittee of the striking employes and they signed a paper agreeing to tho terms." I Mobbed the Taxlcabs. I The worst of the trouble today came not from the express employes, but from the striking taxlcab chauffeurs, chauf-feurs, who went out with them In sympathy. They mobbed taxlcabs driven by non-union men and squabbled squab-bled with the police until It was necessary nec-essary to threaten them with drawu revolvers and with the swinging night sticks. Bottles, stones, bricks and loose ends of Iron flew thick. There were many heads broken, but only five arrests were made. EXPRESSMEN WILL RETURN TO WORK NEW YORK, Nov. 10. After work- j ing for five hoUrs, an executive ses- ' sion of the striking drivers and help- I era of the five transcontinental express ex-press companies decided tentatively early this morning to return to work on Monday under the terms of the agreement 6igned yesterday afternoon. after-noon. f the Jersey City men approve of the agreement the men will go back to work. If the Jersey men reject re-ject the agreement the New York menj will stay out. Drivers and chauffeurs on strike not employed by the express companies are not affected. The strike was settled in a fashion today in the office of Mayor Gaynor, In the belief of the mayCr, the representatives repre-sentatives of the strikers and the executive ex-ecutive officers of the companies. The agreement, although drafted and signed by both parties, was threatened threat-ened with rejection tonight. The day was stormy In the streets and lowering tonight in the council. The men gathered in mass meeting to consider the proposal recommended to them for ratification, but although the mayor when he left his office had issued is-sued a statement congratulating Henry Hen-ry B. Towne, president of the Merchants' Mer-chants' association of New York, who had attended the afternoon conference, confer-ence, for his share In "settling the strike," it was seen that the strike was not settled at all. On the contrary, con-trary, one after another of the speakers speak-ers arose in opposition to the agreement. agree-ment. The hundred chauffeurs who struck in sympathy with the express men and went back to work a week ago when the'r demands were granted, were directed to strike again because the company would not permit them to wear the union button. It was ordered or-dered that all garages still hostile to the union be picketed tomorrow. The tone of the meeting was quietly belligerent. bel-ligerent. NEW YORK. Nov 10 A delegation representing the employes "f 'be express ex-press companies met in Mayor Gay-nor's Gay-nor's office late this afternoon for thH presentation of an answer to this propr .sit km made by the compnnl: The Proposition of Companies., "We aie willing to take back bur employes who are on strike, whether or not they have joined a union, reserving re-serving the rl-,rht, however, to take back any of thorn, whether they be members of the union or not, who may have committed or incited acts of viole nce and hostility again, t us. "Tho;e of our companies whose employes em-ployes have raised a question concerning concern-ing their hours of employment or rate of waes, will agree, alter the men resume re-sume work, at once to take up these questions with their employes or committees, com-mittees, for the purpose of reaching a settlement, which shall be just and satisfactory to both parties, with the understanding thai the former hours an(j rates of wages shall contluue In effect until December 1 next, and that any changes mutually agreed upon shall then become effective." The Strikers answer. To this offer the representatives of the strikers assented as follows: "The undersigned, n committee representing rep-resenting the employes of the express companies which Join In the annexed letter to Mr. Towne, hereby receive the terms of tho said letter in settlement settle-ment of tbe strike, and advise the said employes to resume work thereon ai once aud end the strike. We proposed |