- Hundreds of strikers assemble early in the morning in front of Steinway & Sons factory. Two hundred and fifty policemen guard the factory, one hundred and fifty more are concealed at a nearby station. Mounted policemen ride up and down the street, observing the strikers and reporting their position, backed up by several plainclothes detectives that have infiltrated the mass of strikers. Superintendent Kelso is in charge of the police operation.
- More than five hundred Steinway & Sons workmen show up for work at seven o’clock. They are confronted by the crowd of strikers.
- Awed by the magnitude of the police force dispatched against them, the strikers give up the plan to attack the factory, and try to stop the workmen from entering the factory instead, by force. The policemen use their batons to drive the strikers off. Approximately a hundred strikers charge the factory entrance nevertheless, and are dispersed by the police.
- The policemen remain at the factory and escort the workmen to dinner at noon.
- At six o’clock Steinway & Sons workers leave the factory safely.