Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-05-24
PEACE AGAIN POSSIBLE.
Union Leaders and Employers to
Confer Once More.
TROOPS READY TO GO.
Mayor Will Call for Militia if Strike
Continues to Spread-More
Transfers Quit.

Springfield, ILL.,, May 22.-Gov. Deneen
Is prepared to receive call for troops at
any time. He is keeping himself in
readiness to respond promptly.
Chicago, ILL.,, May 22.-Following a
spread of the transfers strike today to
the lumber drivers, an attempt to resume
| peace negotiations formed the chief de-
velopment today in the long drawn out
labor trouble.
Peace Again in Sight.
| Employe legal representatives sought
to revive the peace negotiations that were
given q setback by the action of the
transfers joint council Saturday night.
1t was stated that they were attempting
| to find something on which another prop
osition for the adjustment of the trouble
! could be based Robert Il. Thorne of
Montgomery Ward & Co. joined the con-
ference and it was said that representa-
tlyes OF the seven express companies
were expected later.
Prospect of Settlement Good.
President Shea and A. J. Reed, secre-
| tary of the Transfers council, met Levy
Mayer, the employers representative, i'll
lives This conference with Shea and
| Reed had resulted in a decision that a
new committee of five members of the
teamsterS' joint council, to be increased
to seven by the addition of Shea and
Reed, would meet Mayer at the Audi
forum Annex tonight. Attorney Mayer
| said he would not discuss whether any
new proposition had been considered.
Mr. Reed said:
Il think the prospect for peace is very
good"
Mayor Talks of Troops.
Mayor Dunno was in communication
| today with Gov. Deneen by long-distance
telephone Gov. Deneen assured the
mayor that the national guard of the
state would be available for strike pro-
lection inside of two hours after a call
was made for the services of the troops.
The mayor realized that call for troops
might have to be made at any time, not
perhaps because of increased rioting or
| displays of violence due to the spread of
the strike, but because of the territory
! that the affected industries covered
That it would be impossible for the re-
sources of the city police department or
| the sheriff's office to adequately protect
| traffic if the wood industries trouble in
volved firms all over the city, both the
! city's executive and Sheriff Barrett had
! agreed.
Union Spreads Strike.
! Chicago, ILL.,, May 22.-Spreading of
the teamsters strike began promptly to-
| day. Thirty-siX transfers employed by
the Rittenhouse q Embree company,
| lumber dealers, and four by Edward
Hines Lumber company were the first
| to be forced into the struggle, following
| the refusal of teamsters' joint council to
| endorse the settlement professionally ar
ranged with the employers by President
| \. t. Shea of the Transfers union.
Building Is Tied Up.
Through the threatened spread of the
strike to all lumber dealers every branch
OF the building industry in Chicago was
today apparently facing paralysis. There
are only 800 transfers employed by
lumber firms, but 50 close are the rela
tons between them and several other
unions Of men engaged in hauling build
ing material that the walk-out of the
lumber transfers, it was said, would
doubtless lead to strikes in nearly every
department of the building industry. In
directly dependent upon the building ma
terial transfers, it was estimated today,
hung the employment of nearly 10000
men in yards, mills, factories and on
construction work. 1t was not believed
the drivers strike would affect the wood
industries or building construction work
generally at first. If, however, the walk
out should go all along the line, as it
threatens to do today, all the lumber
yards of Chicago would be tied up.
To Close Big Factories.
The same programme was seemingly
in store for the stone and the
industrial enterprises dependent upon
them. The planning mills, the sash
and door factories, the box fac
tories and kindred plants would
also face soon shortage of lumber sup
plies which would necesstate closing
down.
Paradoxical as it might appear, Presi-
dent Shea was reported today as not
anxious to spread the strike. He was
understood furthermore to take the
ground that the strike would not be ex-
tended unless it were through the actions
of the other side. If the team owners
insisted upon delivering goods to the
strikebound houses, the teamsters direct
ly affected would strike, but that other
wise no new strike would be called.
Strike Is Decisive.
Action by the teamsters today was de-
| cisive. In a few moments the first forty
recruits to the strikers ranks had been
increased to 100. They were EMPLOYEES of
the Ward, Hines Lumber company. at
the head of which is former President
| Hines of the Lumber Dealers associa-
ton Mr.. Hines has been particularly
prominent among the employers in the
|
Aside from his firm, the Rittenhouse g.
Embree Lumber company were first to
feel the spread Of the strike today. Thir
ty teamsters employed by Rittenhouse &
Embree quit. The full force in each
case struck. The cause, as heretofore
was an order to deliver material to firms
boycotted by the teamsters in the course
of the long hostilities growing out of the
strike of a small number of garment
workers months ago.
Men Are Discharged
In the first strike today the Initiative
was taken by the employers. Members
of the transfers union were discharged
for refusing to deliver to boycotted firms
Orders by the union for others to omit
where discharges had been made Fol
lowed quickly. AS an immediate result.
the yards of two big companies were
completely tied up. Edward Hines,
ISOLATION, declared that every lumhar