The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-01-04
MANY BACK At WORK TODAY
Most of the Employed Men Seem to Be
Satisfied With Schedule of Wages Of
fered by Company and No Further
Trouble Is Expected at Present.


Twin Lakes seems to be over. After a
day OF sparring and some smuggling most
OF the maleontents were paid off at the
LaWler houses on Tuesday night and
they left at once for Chicago. The
deputy sheriffs which had been sent to
the lake on Tuesday morning were with
drawn late in the evening when there
appeared to be no further need of their
services. By this time some eighty of
the men who had objected to the wages
Offered by the company had been paid
off for the few days they had worked
and had been started for Chicago and
the remaining two hundred men had
declared their willingness to go to work
at the wages offered. The schedule of
wages was 221a cents an hour for the
men with bonus of 211b cents an hour
more provided they stuck to the end of
the ice cutting season.
Sheriff Hermann and his men reach
ed the lakes on Tuesday just in time
to prevent serious trouble. Before this
time there had been several free for
all fights In which men who wanted to
go to work were slugged. The men when
interviewed by the sheriff declared their
willingness to go to work. The members
of the industrial Workers of the World
who were blamed for the starting of the
trouble were very largely represented
in the men paid off and shipped back
to Chicago on Tuesday night. This
morning it was declared that the men
had returned to work on the lakes and
that there was no sign of labor troubles
anywhere. The strike on Tuesday af-
fected only the men employed at the
Lawler houses but the local officials
were at the other houses before thew
returned to Kenosha and they came
away with the assurances that there is
little reason to believe that there will
be any spread of the strike.
Tuesday afternoon Just after one
o clock the office of the sheriff was
notified that some fifty men, all of them
supposed to be of the I. W. w. were
on their way from Milwaukee and Chi
cago to Twin Lakes to go into the ice
fields. The gang got quite recep-
ton when they reached Kenosha. The
platform up at the Northwestern station
was pretty well filled up with deputy
sheriffs and police Officers and before
the men were allowed to leave the
trains they were searched. Not a sin
gle gun was found on any of the men
and after some delay they were allowed
to proceed vest They were not taken
directly to Twin Lakes but the train
was stopped at Basset's station and the
men were given the once over by the
sheriff and his men before they went to
the ice fields. There was no indication
that any Of them were trouble makers
or agitators.
Conditions appear to be normal this
morning." said one of the ice company
managers. EWe are not looking for
any trouble and we do not want any
trouble. Things We're little crosswise
on Tuesday but they have all been
ironed out and we expect the harvest
to go forward without any great amount
of interruption from now on. The
great majority of the men who are
working today are entirely satisfied
with the wages offered. The men
who are not satisfied are being paid
off and every man had been given to
understand that he can have his money
just as soon as he wants it. The men
who stay till the end of the season are
all to receive the full $3.50 day. The
plan is the same that has been used on
the lakes in other years and most of
the men seem to be satisfied that it is
the only just way to handle the propo-
sition. Right now we are getting away
with the cutting of the ice in fine fash
ion and as it is excellent ice we are
hopeful that the labor agitators will not
be permitted to stop the harvest. Your
new Kenosha sheriff showed up in fine
shape in this business and he is entitled
to credit for the intelligent manner in
which he handled rather ticklish stu
alton.