Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-02-05 | Page 12 | Teamsters Make Formal Protest to the Council

TEAMSTERS MAKE FORMAL PR PROTEST TEST TO THE COUNCIL I City teamsters are circulating petitions directed against the wide tire ordinance which the city authorities are Just now putting I into force Jake T Raleigh street supervisor has had all ail his deputies out during the present week serving notice that the old tires would have to be aban abandoned abandoned abandoned and replaced with the t e wider ones onesto onesto onesto to conform to the ordinance A consider considerable considerable considerable able number of them were at the commit committee tee meetings of the city council last even evening evenIng evenIng ing and were told to put their petition in through the councils regular channels The teamsters in their petition state that thatto thatto i ito to require a tire for loads rang ranging rangIng ranging ing from to pounds would necessitate necessitate an extra horse and increase the expense to them They say that tha they are Interested In the maintenance of good roads reads but believe that If the ordinance were modified to admit of tires Ures being used for these loads no harm hann to the pavements would result They further ask that a reasonable time heaven b nD for owners of wagons the tires of which do not comply with the ordinances to dispose of their narrow tires without serious loss to themselves The petitions will come tome before the council counell on Monday I I night