Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21
ALL PEACE NEGOTIATIONS ARE
ABANDONED
SHERIFF WILL ASK TROOPS
More Men VIII Join In the Walkout,
and Officials Declare They
Cannot Preserve Order
Without Military
BY Associated Press.


off, will be spread to greater propor-
tions. This was decided tonight by
the members of the teamsters' joint
council, which was in session until mid
night.
The council met at 8 o'clock to hear
the report of the negotiations that had
been in progress with the employers
throughout the day. They agreed to
all the stipuatons of the employers
with the exception of that which de-
cared that the drivers of the express
companies should not be taken back.
This was the rock upon which the
peace program was wrecked, and after
several hours of debate 1t was decided
that the teamsters' union could not
leave the express drivers to make a
lone fight, but must stand by them,
1t was decided to call off all the nego-
fight.
The sense of the meeting was ex-
pressed in the following statement,
which was given out as defining the
position of the teamsters:
Attitude of Strikers
1T is due to the public and members
of the teamsters' organization that a
statement be issued relative to our po-
sition in refusing to accept the propo-
sition submitted by the Employers as
sociation. The Employers association
offered a proposition which might have
received favorable consideration from
the strikers and their committee. pro-
viding that it carried with it no pro-
vso that would act as a detriment to
any part of our organization.
Their proposition, however, carried
with it the condition that the strike
against the railway express companies
be declared off without those compan-
les agreeing to the proposition made
by the employers or any other propo-
sition, they having made the state
ment that they held a meeting and de-
cided that no strikers would ever
again be re-employed as Workmen for
the railway express companies-in fact,
to establish a blacklist against all of
ters' organzatio or its officials could
rot accept.
1--WE believe that the railway eX-
press companies are not justified in
their refusal to relnstate any of their
former employees, and believe that the
best interests of all would be served
had they agreed to the same PROPOSE
-, to
that which the Employers association
suggested Under these conditions 1t
IS incumbent upon the members of the
teamsters organization to continue
the strike until such time as the ex-
press companies will agree to the
same conditions, as those offered by
the Employers associa ton"
The methods of the unions will not
differ from those which they have pur-
sued thus far in the strike. They Will
continue the boycott against the
houses where the strikes have been
held during the last month and IL any
of their members are discharged for
refusing to make deliveries all of the
drivers employed by that house will
be called out on strike at once. The
effect of the spread of the strike will
be in the building trades and trouble
is looked for in this direction on Mon
day The Lumbermen's association has
declared that it will make deliveries
to boycotted firms and will insist upon
its drivers taking goods where they
are ordered to take them. This means
a strike of all the union men employed
by the Lumbermens association, num-
bering about 1000.
Sheriff Barrett said tonight, after
being Informed of the action of the
teamsters' joint council
1t simply means that the troops will
have to be called out. We have found
1t difficult to maintain the peace with
the force of police and deputies we
have had out, and now that there is a
prospect of much greater body of
men being on strike, with all the
chance of rioting that 1t entails, 1t will
be out of the question for us to handle
the trouble without aid fro mthe mill
tary. AS soon as the strike spreads /
Will be compelled to ask the governor
for aid. / have done all that 1 am able
to do and the prospect now is that
the thing will get away beyond the
powers of my Office"
Seeking to avenge the murder of
Enoch Carlson, the S-year-old boy who
was shot and killed last Tuesday night
by a negro, scores of men armed with
revolvers went forth tonight, deter
mined to drive the non-union team
sters from the district. Negroes leaving
the branch yards of the Peabody Coal
company at Twenty-sixth and Canal
streets were followed and assaulted
and as result two riots occurred, in
which b. Engstrand, union machnist,
was shot and probably fatally wound
ed, many others were hurt and six
were arrested.