Fight between Carmen and Union Pickets.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 20, 18 October 1907, Page 10

Fight between Carmen and Union Pickets.

' FIVE MEN SHOT. In a fierce battle between union pickets and non-union carmen at an.early hour on September 11, in San Francisco, five men , wero badly wounded and several others ' were 1 more or less s'driously : injured, near the car barns of the United Railroads..' The, trouble began when tho crew of a wrecking; car approached tho bam and attempted '.t'o : run in a car. ,A rock was thrown by ono ; of the .pickets arid in an instant the air'was filled with missiles. Tho crow of tho car drew pistols and one of (tho men among the pickets .fired a Bhot. The carmen replied* and/the 1 fusillade becamo general. ' There were four men on tho car, and the ranks'of tho attacking party were augmented.overy. minuto. ""Hearing tho. shots, a number 'of-employees' of. tlie XinitCu Railroads rushed; oiit of : the barn.-.to thi-je-Bcue of their fellow workmen, flourishing drawn., revolvers. Thoy were greeted with yolloys from the union men. , A telephono call'was■ sent'to the Mission Police Station for help, and shortly afterward a riot call was turned in. Patrol ■waggon loads of policemen were rushed to the scone of tho riot from all parts of the city. The pickets and the strike sympathisers-wore still in the vicinity of the barns when tho police arrived. - — The five men'who were wounded by pistol , Where' their ( wounds "were" .(lressed. h The /policemen scoured, the/.rieighb'ourhood looking for. members' of?, th'o 'rioting-''party, (juest met witJftlittle i'succ.ess. ';V' TKd'w'feck'•lng car was ,ba*dlj^-battered during .; the onslaught. ■ /.; - ' . V ']-'' ' The names , of' the 1 injured-: men arei-y Morris Rosenberg,-.conductor,, wounded ; in the 'abdomen and may . : :die';: Frank' Smith, wounded in : 'the arriij ; s ;and v '- Harry Cohh, ivoUhded in> !the loft leg, serious;l Roy : jerkins and J. J Carter. Tho injuries of the two latter are of minor importance. Perkins, Carter and Smith wero all placed .under arrest. . , '/ • Rosenberg and Cohn; aro detained ; at' thei hospital under police surveillance. ,;-Tlie car- . men declare 'that;.the :first shot was firod'-by tlie pickets. . o-•