The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-02-07
ALL TRAINS MUST STOP HERE
City Attorney Directed to Tell North
Western Trains to Stop or Use
snail's Pace - Plan to Purchase
Gonnermann Property Rejected.

Preference of members of trade
organization against non-members was
demanded of the common council of the
city at the meeting on Monday even
ing when the Transfer Team and
Truck Owners Association sent COM
to the council asking recog-
milton of the association by the of
fcials and an order demanding the en-
ployment of members of the organiza-
ton as against outsiders. The com
munication declared that in case the
council failed to give official recogni-
tion to the association that teams
owned by its members would leave the
employ of the city this morning
City attorney Slater advised the
council that the demand of the organi-
zation had considerable of the appear
ance of a boycott and he instructed
the aldermen that there were both
state and federal statutes which would
invalidate any contract made by the
city in which some association Of labor
would be preferred against any other.
The Attorney told the alderman that
the city was expected to act fairly to-
ward all the people in the city and
that it had no right to ask of a man
to wear an association badge before
he could be employed ON city work.
Ladewig is Chief Spokesman.
The demand made upon the council
for recognition of the association was
signed by its president, George R. Wade
and David Nelson Secretary but Max
Ladewig appeared to present the cause
of the association He declared that
the association was largely, made up
of tax payers of Kenosha and that
these men had been forced to keep
teams in the barn ON account of the
fact that farmers brought teams in
from the country during the winter
season an found employment here. He
said further that there were a num-
Der of team owners who were not mem
bers of the association who were get
ting a considerable amount Of work
from the city and that it was against
the rules of the organization for it's
members to work on the same job with
these men.
The members of the council refused
to take any action on the communica-
ton. When the seriousness of the pro-
position was brought to the notice of
the leaders of the teamsters the petit
tion was withdrawn with the under
standing that it would be brought to
the council in an amended form at a
later meeting.
Northwestern Must Stop Trains.
The council by unanimous vote in
structed the city attorney to take i'm.
mediate steps to force the Northwest
ern Railway Company to stop all of-its
passenger trains in Kenosha. Attor-
ney Slater will notify the company
that if all passenger trains are not
stopped at Kenosha that the city will
at once take steps to secure the en-
forcement of the state law regulating
the speed of all railway trains within
the corporate limits of the city and
the trains of the company will either
crawl through Kenosha at a snail s
pace or stop here to take on passen-
gers. The members of the council
showed willingness to back up the
city Attorney in any action he may
take and it looks as if the fight is
going to be one to the finish. Recent
actions of the company in refusing to
take on passengers for nonstop trains
which had stopped at the station
brought this new action on the part Of
the council.
Turn Down Gonnermann Site.
The council without discussion and
without division voted not to exer-
else the option for the purchase of the
Charles FL. Gonnermann property on
Market street as q site for the pro-
posed new police station. The alder
men declared that they might be will
ling to take up the matter at some later
time but they insised that at this
time there was no use to make so large
expenditure for real estate. The ques-
ton Of the merits of the site was not
discussed. A thirty day option for
the purchase had been taken and this
was allowed to lapse under the order
of the aldermen.
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