The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-05-27
OPEN WAR FROM THIS TIME ON
All Prospects Of Peace in Teamsters.
Strike Disappear.

All Prospects Of Peace in Teamsters.
Strike Disappear.
Chicago, May 25.-All prospects of
peace in the transfers strike have
disappeared and it will be open war
from this on. The last conference
looking toward peaceable adjustment
was held at o'clock last night be-
tween James B. Barry. business agent
of the express drivers union and the
local managers of the seven express
companies. Business Agent Barry
opened the negotiations by saying:
"Our proposition is this: I want all
the men reinstated except those who
have been guilty of violence. | cannot
do anything different. That is what
the local union wants and that is what
the local officers have told me to de-
mand. That is all can do The men
told NE that they all want to go back
in a body or they won't go back at all.
That is the position of the union and
the union officials
Refuse to Take Man Back.
The re ply Of the representatives OF
the express companies was brief. 1t
was: "Our proposition as to the rein
statement Of the men will be the same
four years from now as it is to-day.
We will not take them back under any
circumstances
This brought the conference to a
close.
Four hundred and sixty-two drivers
employed by twenty-eight firms be-
longing to the lumbermen's assocla-
ton went out yesterday. In each case
the men were ordered TO make deliv-.
cries to boycotted houses and the
usual strikes followed. Other firms to
the number Of fifty-ive belonging to
the lumbermen's exchange will
Make Similar Requests
of their men to-day and by night 1t is
expected that the full number Of 1000
drivers employed by these lumber con-
Germs will be on strike.
A meeting of the United Employers
Association of Wood Industries, which
is composed of five associations en-
bracing 1876 firms owning lumber
yards, planning mills, sash and door
factories, etc., was held yesterday,
and it was decided to call upon their
drivers to make deliveries to strike
bound houses. This will force out
l 800 men.
With the union drivers employed by
the lumbermen's association on strike,
it will be only matter of a short time
until outside unions will become in
volved in the trouble.
Increased Roting Expected.
The possibilities for increased riot
ing are vastly enlarged Fy the spread
of the strike to the lumber district. 1t
is a district noted for the fierce mobs
which have marched through ii dur
ing former strikes, and is the place
which has invariably caused more
trouble than any other part of the city.
The ely officials and Sheriff Barrett
feel we'll nigh hopeless of being able
to MAINTAIN order in the lumber dis
JrlcU ana DIT lIlC SAME l4ji1C ptOACNt'
wagons in the downtown streets as
they have been doing thus far in the
strike It would require a force of at
least 1000 men to effectually patrol
the lumber district alone, and this
number the city and county have not
to spare.
Will Call for Troops.
1t has, therefore. been determined
that at the first outbreak of rioting
such as marked the strike ten days
ago, a call will be made on Gov. De
neen for military assistance.
Sheriff Barrett said last night: "At
the first outbreak of trouble which in
any way approaches the rioting we
have had | shall call for troops. | will
do everything in my power to main
tain order, but the minute it gets be-
yond me l will appeal to the governor
and the troops will be on the ground
within less than two hours"