The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-03

It was soon after o'clock this
 morning when the Crane employees go1 into an altercation with policemen
 over the .picketing at the plant Po- lice reserves were called and they charged the men. A battle enSueo in which the policemen armed with night sticks fought the crowd, which was throwing stones, scrap iron ana bottles.
 Tony Moskowski of 174 spruce street, was arrested as a ringleader after & sensational chase in an auto mobile. His head was. split open. Steven Shurenski of 2 West avenue, was also arrested. After a few min
 ntes hearing in the city court, Deputy Judge Frank L. Wilder, on the rec onmendation of Assistant Prosecuting Attorney John P. Gray, sentenced the men to six months for assault and six months and fine of $1 ana costs were meted out for breach or the peace.
 James B. Roche, chairman of the executive committee of the A. F. of L.. said this afternoon that an inVestlga- ton would be begun It Is not the policy of the federation to protect those who start riots, but the aSSer- tfons of the strikers indicate that tne police may have provoked the attack.
 Heads were smashed right and left The long night sticks of the police were swung without stint. After they got started they had to fight for the men fought back strenuously.
 Two policemen, Martin Kane and NGchae1 Guilty, had been on duty near the plant during the night In the of 6 o'clock the strikers began to gather in South avenue in front of the offices of the plant.
 A telephone call for reserves was sent to headuuarters from inside the plant, and an automobile owned by the plant was rushed to the police station There it took on Sergeant Charles Wheeler and Policemen John Curry, Tohn Dwyer and Edward Morris
 When Sergeant Wheeler arrived on the scene he sent in another call for help Policemen Martin Kelly, Lew Mendelson and John Dempsey rushed to the scene.
 Statements differ as to what precip- tated the trouble. According to the ,esimony of he policemen, the strikers were stopping men on the way to the plant and forcibIy detaining them Some they said, were pulled off Dlcy- :1es They said one old man, syrian, who it was declared at the plant IS holding his job as penslon' was struck by a stone.
 Shurenki and a companion who was tt the scene of disorder, said, however hat they were peaceable. They as- erted a watchman at the plant had nterfered with them and started pushing them around.
 Things began to happen, however, vhen Sergeant Wheeler approached who appeared to be the eader of the strikers, and sought to prevent him from picketting. State nents differ as to what happened here, | tut they unite in asserting that Mos | ,owski immediately afterward re-\I eived blow on the head with the ergeant's night stick, which opened ash that required 70 stitches to close.
 Sergeant Wheeler ordered a charge. | The eight policemen and the officer | an into the crowd, beating right and | eft with the nightsticks. Head after l ead felt the force of the clubs as the | drove the men east on l outh avenue and into Iranistan ave- ue and the lots adjacent.
 The police attack 1nfuriated the | rowd. Grasping sticks, stones, bot les, scrap iron, etc, according to he police, they hurled them at the | luecoats. Policeman Mendelson was it in the back of his neck with a tone, he reported. Policeman Curry aid he was struck by a cover of a urb box of the Bridgeport Hydraulic