Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-08
DENVER TRA|NMEN
FORBIDDEN TO CALL
STRIKERS MEETING
Commander Refuses to Per-
NIT Gathering for Ballot
to End Tie-Up.
By the Associa ted Prose

/ - 'Ae hsooCidteu freSS.
DENVER, August Col. c. c.
Rallou. in command of federal troops
IN Denver, refused to permit striking
tralnmen to gather at $50 o'clock
TINS afternoon to vote finally on call
ing OF the strike on the lines of
the Denver tramway.
Col. Ballou forbade the meeting be-
tcause he considered lit unwise to per-
! mt SO many men to gather in hall
at that hour of the evening. Earlier
IN the day the commanding officer had
issued orders forbidding all public
assemblages.
Col. Ballou promised union leaders
that if there was no rioting tonight
ne would permit them to meet at
CLOCK tomorrow morning. Mean
while. Frederick w. Hide. general
manager of the company, announced,
we Will not deal with the union"
street Cars Sunday.
| At a conference participated in by
| city officials and officers of the tram
way company this afternoon Hide
gave assurances that street cars
would be operated tomorrow. These
will be manned by strikebreakers.
NO cars were operated today.
! Hide announced the company was
prepared to take back many of its
old employees as individuals, and said
| he would issue statement later tell
ing them where they might apply
| for their old positions.
| Hide declared the union men for
| feited all right to a part in company
affairs when they struck, and assert
ed they would be dealt with as midi
viouals only. He also declared the
| company would discharge TO strike
/ BIZ eakerS.
| With two hundred and fifty federal
| troops in the city tonight from Fort
Logan, and two thousand America \
Legion members, special officers anu
regular police under arms, officials
| had made elaborate preparations to
prevent the recurrence of rioting that
marked the nights of Thursday and
/, Friday.
Troops Guard Barns.
| A large number of the troops were
grouped at the East Side car barns,
| scene of the rioting last night. while
the remainder were at the city audi
torium awaiting orders American
| Legion members patroued tho out
skirt of the city.
The city was quiet at o'clock.
| There had been no disturbances all
day, and authorities considered they
| had the situation well in hand.
/ Whippet tanks, hand grenades, enc;
Founders, firing shrapnel and sawed
off shotguns are being brought to
Denver by troops from Camp Funston,
i Kansas.
Judge Greeley W. Whitford in the
district court today deferred until
4 Monday sentencing Of the seven strike
4 leaders found guilty yesterday of con-
4 tempt of court for calling the strike
\ Judge Whitford said he deferred
i sentence to see if the union officials
really meant to call of the strike, in
! accordance with the courts order tc
I do So"
4 Attorney Williams, for the men, an
nounced in court that the strike had
been called off by vote of 997 to
under certain conditions" He said
he would take up these conditions
afternoon.
I Another Victim Dies.
Hugh Miller, forty-three, shot il
last nights rioting. died this after.
noon. His death brought the dead, al
\ result of the clash at the East Side
car barns, to four. and the total deaG
since rioting began to six.
| The man killed during Thursda,
nights noting, who previously hat
been Identified as John Blake" today
was positively identified as John w
Shoemaker of Smith Center. Kan. HI
was spectator in the crowd.
Henry Silberg, president of thu
tramway employees union, after the
mass meeting Of men had voted to cal
off the strike under certain condi
lions, said:
"Al1 tramways employees who strucl
Sunday morning will go back to worl
fifteen minutes after the company will
agree to take them in a body. W.
will work on any condition whatso
ever, and will have the cars running
tonight, if the company will run the
'scabs' out of Denver. You do no
know what this shooting, this loss o.
life, has done to me. I am differen
man. 1 would do anything to end thi.
bloodshed."