The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-09
.6OO Italians and Poles Join Battle and 35 Are Taken
 to Hospitals
THREE PATROLMEN BADLY
 INJURED STOPPING RIOT
Transatlantic and Coastwise Steam. ship Companies Slip Strike Break CTS over--Ships Sail With
 Partial careoes.

New York. May S.--Not since the Brook lyn car riots has there been such street fighting on the other side of the river as has happened tonight when nearly six hundred Italians and Poles joined bat tie in the Italian quarter in Williams burg. Three patrolmen were seriously in- jured and when their comrades had broken up the riot thirty-fve rioters had been sent to the Williamsburg hospital and twelve more locked up in a police station.
 Under cover of darkness an attempt was made by the steamship lines to run their new men through the strikers pickets to their homes. At a late hour d covered lighter with more than three hundred str1ke-breakers from the Man. haitian piers docked at Metropolitan ave- nue. All was quiet as the lines were passed ashore, but every door in the shadow concealed striking longshore- man or sympathizer. The strikers of the Havemeyer sugar refinery, who had been paid off during the day, had reinforced the longshoremen until there were close to three hundred of them lurking about the pier waiting for the Italians and Poles to get ashore.
 Eight blocks away at the sugar house were four mounted patrolmen whistling for help. They charged down Kent to Wythe avenue. where they ran into the thick of the fight. With the height of their mounts. in. their favor, their long night sticks were thrown upon the heads of everybody in sight and the rioting stopped for the moment whenever the clubs struck.
 New York, May s.-The contest between inc nd ha of.a cf ffea steamship companies and the striking longshoremen, which followed the refusal of the former to grant wage increase of approximately 8 1-3 per cent, continued today to the disadvantage of both parties. While the men remained idle several ships were obliged to sail with partial cargoes.
 Merchants throughout the country are feeling the delay it is said, contracts are maturing without the fulfillment of their conditions, and orders are piling in with no immediate prospect of being filled. It is in this last phase of the situation that the longshoremen find their greatest source of satisfaction. A general protest of merchants, they are sure, will impel the steamship men to agree forthwith to their demands for higher wages.
 With the exception of half dozen lines, which have acceded to the demands, the steamship people tonight remained firm in their determination to not yield. The liners sailed as scheduled today. They included the Baltic of the White Star line, for Liverpool; Nordam of the Amer ican line, for Rotterdam; the French liner Roma, for Marseilles, and the Ital- ian Brasile, for Naples and Genoa.
 Though probably 10000 men are idle. there was comparatively no disorder to- day.
 From present indications it does not appear that the big transatlantic steam ship companies propose to permit any dis arrangement of the sailing engagements as a result of the strike of longshore- men, which has become increasingly seri- ous during the past few days. Just at this time the eastward tide of tourists is at its height and every steamer scheduled to sail for weeks Is booked almost to it's capacity When the lonsshoremen strike movement reached serious proportions and tons of freight was lying at every dock, with none to put it aboard the steamers, 1t was believed that serious de- lays would result. 1t now appears, how ever, that the companies have decided to give the freight only secondary con- sideration for the present at least and to send their passenger steamers away on time, even if their holds are practically empty
 Up to the present time only one of the big trans Atlantic lines has permitted any appreciable delay in sending away d scheduled steamer. That, was the Kroon- land of the Red Star line, which sailed last Monday after a two days delay oc- easioned by inability of the line to pro- cure men to fill her cayernous holds with merchandise. Yesterday half a dozen big liners, including the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse of the North German Lloyd and the giant caronia of the Cunard line. sailed only slightly behind their regular schedules and the companies declare that the steamers scheduled to go out today will leave their docks on time.
 All of them, however. will take short cargoes. The 20.O00-ton Baltic of the White Star line will have only 2000 tons of cargo, and all the Noordam of the Holland-American line will carry only about two-thirds of her normal cargo of freight. Both will have full cabins.
 The attitude of the steamship companies toward the men is unchanged. so far as could be learned today. J. H. Thomas. manager of the operating department of the International Mercantile Marine com pany which controls the American. At lantic Transport, Red Star and White Star lines, declared positively today that his companies never will accede to the demands of the strikers.
 We can't afford to do it," Is the way he expressed it. Mir. Thomas said that god progress is being made in discharg- ing and loading all the ships now iu port and that they are all expected to sail on time.