New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-07-20
One Man Shot and Seriously
Wounded, Another In
jured, in Seamen's Fight
OH Brooklyn Waterfront
Chinese Join i'm Walk-O,ll
Union Leaders Claim 800
Vessels Idle in Port; Hope
for Compromise To-day


wounded and another was stabbed sew
eral times in a street fight along the
Brooklyn waterfront, yesterday, when
crowd Of striking marine workers
and seamen encountered group of
strike breakers.
Bryant Herring, of Florence, Tex,
one of the striking fremen, was shot
five times and is in the Long Island
College Hospital. Emmanuel Silva, of
1O8 Hamilton Avenue, was bleeding
police reserves from the Amity street
station arrived. Silva was arrested on
a charge Of felonious assault.
Brooklyn detectives investigating
the melee went to the strikers head
quarters at II Hamilton Avenue,
where they found Sibio Napo, long
shoreman, said to be president of the
Golden Horseshoe Club. Strikers were
holding Napo prisoner, it was said,
after he had made offers Of Sl00 to
each striker who would take q job as
a fireman. The offer was refused, and
during an argument two men with
started on Hamilton Avenue and
stones, clubs and guns were used in
the brawl, which extended to Carroll
Street. Herring was doing picket
duty at this point, when he was shot.
Napo was also arrested charged with
violating the Sullivan law, which for
bids carrying concealed weapons.
Strikers Foresee Compromise
Hope of compromise at to-mor-
rows meeting of the American Steam
ship Association was expressed by the
strike leaders at the headquarters in
the Continental Hotel S. B. Axtell,
counsel for the seamen, said last night
the workers would agree to one conces-
sion, in which they would ask the ship
owners to give preference to American
seamen, with union seamen in second
order of preference. If the ship owners
would agree to this, the strike would
end tomorrow, Mr. Axtell said
II. H. Raymond, president of the NAL
lory Steamship Company, and head of
the American Steamship Association,
explained the attitude Of the owners
thus:
eve feel that the union rather than
the men, is making a fight against US.
| think the men themselves are salts
fed, and are willing to return to work
on the terms we have offered. The posi-
ton taken by the union is un-Amcrican
association are unalterably opposed to
the closed shop proposition demanded
by the union. We stand pat on that
question:"
The gang sure was all there. And
why should anybody care whether it
rained or what it did? 1t might have
showed and no appreciable damper on
the enthusiasm would have appeared.
&. Fl. Brown, Of the international
Go,
men were prepared for long strike
unless the Ship owners meet their de-
mands. Announcement from the own
els that they were opposed to the
closed shop was taken as al indica-
ton that the employers will consider
the offer in which the scamen ask first
preference for the Americans, whether
they are union men or not
300 Chinese Seamen Cult
More than 800 Chinese seamen and
marine workers walked off ships in
New York and at other ports during
The day. James S. Alma, the leader
of the Chinese seamen's branch, re-
ported to Brown at the strike head
quarters that every Chinese worker
was going to support the strikers.
The steamship owners indicated that
the reports of ships tied up in the
harbor had been exaggerated. Their
estimate of the bottoms held in port
was 1888, many of them being boats of
the United States Shipping Board The
strikers insist that 800 is a conserva-
tive estimate of the number of ships
that are moored here awaiting crews.
Three ships managed to leave port
with crews furnished by the United
States Shipping Commissioner. They
were the Ausable, the Standard Oil
tanker Moonlight and the Ward liner
Tanamo.
A detail of police reserves from the
Amity Street and Hamilton Avenue
stations was posted along the Brook
Ign water front last night to prevent
recurrence Of the strike rioting.
Most of the extra policemen were sta
toned about the Atlantic and Eric
basins, where most Of the clashes be-
tween strikers and strike breakers
hay