The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-10-01
MORE SHOOTING IN FRISCO.
SPECIAL POLICEMAN FIRES ON
CROWD or STRIkERS.
Two MT We're Attacking rnm for
GSsrdins Nea-lnisa Teamsier's
Hencs -Machinlsts Going Bacs To
Wsrk Strike Appears - ne Near
an End - Public Condemnation.

San FRAScisco. Sept. O-Another shoot
ing ARRAY growing out Of the strike took
pLcs this afternoon at seventh and Howard
strssts. Two strikers were shot by a special
policeman and we're cent 20 hospitals to
have their wound dressed
r. W. Gentry, q non-union man. was
driving u team when the stalled.
He got on his Sat and went tai q telephone
policeman In charge OF this team and several
men. who are said to have bern union
teamsters, approached tbs oficer. One
OF them said This is a good time To soak
him Thereupon the sI-cisl policeman
drew his revolver and ired on the crowd
wounding Chris aud John Ryan. strikers
Chris Ryan was taken to the Central
Hospital by friends lie has a large u
IN the groin and numerous Commissions. He
stated that he was a spectator Of the hight
and took 10 active part In II.
The police will prosecute at least two
Of the stiken who were responsible for
bringing on the bloody street battle early
Sunday morning They are Peter Johnson
and william Tate. h matter will be
submitted To the Grand Jury In order to
take the case out Of the police courts, where
all strikers charged with assault have Jared
easy, most q them h~ing discharged by
police justices who arc ! aging 20 get the
labor yote.
The strikers are growing very ugly a.
they see that they are losing the long fight.
The strike Of machinists will soon be ended
Thirty-hvo shops were open last week.
and to-day this number was increased by
Ave.
In the National Iron Works twenty-five
men took up their work where they left II
Ave months ago The men will be- paid
according 10 the old schedule. but VII
work only eight and a half hours a day
Al shc Risdon Iron Works ten ~ the old
men returned To work to-day II Is as
serted no agreement vas made A. TO wages,
hut the men went back 20 work A. " there
bad never been a strike Three smaller
shops re-mployed their old men this morn
ing Each shop made terms directly with
its employees. 1t IL believed that a dozen
or more establishments will reopen to-
morrow with their former workmen
Those who have followed the strike
since its inception Look upon II now a.
ended 10 all practical purposes and pre-
dict that all the strikers will be ~ work
within NO weeks On the waterfront
there was no especial change in the strike
situation to-day The str~ets were clear
81 union pickets and more free Of disorder
than al any time since the strike began.
No courtesy il now extended to strikers,
and police regulations are 80 vigorously
enforced that business IL moving prsc-
tically without interruption.
The officers of the Dfaymen's Associs-
ton assert that mem ~rs of the organi,a-
ton are handling m"rchaudis" as rapidly
a. It - delivered 10 them. The general
irrlic severely condemns the strikers for
the violence they have DISPLAYED and the
Eiamintr comes in Tor a large share OF this
Consiire ~ its stimulus has kept tho strike
alive Tor weeks. without it, encourage
men, tho strike leaders would have been
unable TO proven, their men from returning
TO work