Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-05-10
FEAR CRAVE Crisis
IN FRISCO STRIKE
MAYOR SCHMlTZ SUMMONS FIFTY
CITIZENS TO AID IN SET
TLING TROUBLE.
STREET CAP OFFICIALS
TO RENEW OPERATIONS
Police Will Board Cars and Disarm
All Nonunion Men-Many Strike
breakers Arriving in City-Gravity
of Lonqshoremen's Strike Grows.

San Francisco, Cal, May 10.-Be.
lieving that the city is facing a grave
crisis, Mayor Schmitz has called to-
gether a committee of so, many Of
whom at his request took charge and
directed the affairs of the city during
the dark days following the earthquake
and fire of April IS of last year. The
mayor sent communications to so rep
resentative citizens requesting them
to meet at his office to discuss with
him the present industrial conditions
in this city and to devise ways and
means for their amelioration. Those
who were summoned by the mayor
are, with few exceptions, the same
citizens who composed the commit
tee of SO last year. James d. Phelan,
Rudolph Spreckles, Francis J. Heney,
M. H. De Young and several others
of the old committee politically act
i've against the mayor were not includ-
ed in his invitations.
More Cars to Be Run.
President Calhoun of the United
Railroads stated that he would op-
crate cars Thursday on a more exten-
sive scale than attempted Wednes-
day. Cars, he said, would be start
ed out over several lines. Police,
mounted and in automobiles, will ac-
company all cars. Chief Dinan stated
that he again would follow the plan
pursued by the police Wednesday and
disarm all the strikebreakers or non
union men who take out cars. All
cars will be boarded by the police as
they come out of the barns and the
men searched for arms. Chief Dinan
hopes by this to avoid a repetition of
the shooting and killing of Tues
day.
Strike Breakers Out on Bail.
Eleven strike breakers who were ar
rested for assault to commit murder
were bailed out on a total bail of $34,-
500 furnished by the United Railroads
When released from Jail the men were
taken under guard to one of the car
barns. Jess Lamar, who is charged
with having caused the death of
James Walsh, was not released.
No further fatalities are reported as
the result of the riot on Tuesday In
cluding John Buchanan, who died
Wednesday night, the death record
has been limited so far to two, with
three others of the wounded in a pre-
carious condition.
Strike breakers continue to arrive
from the east and a number of addi-
tiopal oarc rarryino man for tho ooD1-
pany are reported on the way. The
men are from the big cities of the east
and those who handled the cars in
service Wednesday are Kentuckians.
A detachment of 40 men arrived in
this city Wednesday night, and pro-
ceeded to the barns.
Longshoremen Are Near Riot.
New York, May 10-The gravity of
the longshoremen' strike has grown
with the hours. This is principally be-
cause the congestion of freight is be-
coming greater, the total monetary
loss being reckoned thus far at about
100000, involving business in many
parts of the country. 1t also is be-
cause an element of the strikers
seems to be ready to resort to vio-
lence, as was manifest when 800 Ital-
ian and Polish strike breakers were
surprised and attacked by several hun
dred strikers and sympathizers IN Will
laimsburg and a savage fight ensued,
in which stones, knives and clubs
were used, and numbers of persons
were hurt, including some policemen.