Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-17
Anti-Semitic Outbreak Started
In Philadelphia Threatens to
Become Serious
MOB SURROUNDS THE FACTORY
Riot Call Sent to the Police Station
and Officers Have Great Difficulty in
/; oueIIins tho TroubIe-AmbuIance
Sent to Take Care Of the In
jured.

Philadelphia, Pa, Aug. 1.-THE long
d Faggen, Eighth street and Snyder
avenue, reached a storm climax last
night in a race riot that suggested the
anti Semitic warfare in Europe. Three
thousand men, women and children
marched from Fifth street to Ninth
and from Mifflin to Ritner streets on a
Jew-baiting expedition that seemed to
assume bloody proportions.
1 A riot call was issued to six of the
downtown districts and soon details in
as many patrol wagons were being
rushed to the seat ofswar. where trou-
BE has been brewing during the last
stwo months. The big factory, which
employs 1,5oo hands when operated to,
the full extent but which since the or
dering Of the strike has been all but
shut down, was surrounded by boot
Ing mob as the police struggled thru
the congested district to aid their COM
rades to preserve order.
Trouble Started by Women.
Strikers pickets. several OF them
women. are blamed by the police for
starting the trouble last evening. They
stood at the entrance of the factory
rs the workers came out and were
holder than usual in calling them
"scabs.'
Most of the strikers are Jews, while
mostN of those who are still working in
the factory are not. The crowd that
began to gather quickly was evidently
largely in opposition to the Jews.
.Down with the Jew!" some one
shouted just as one tried to push his
way thru the crowd. to the pickets at
L the door, encountered by bicycle. He
seemed to have. been riding fast and
i he was taken for q messenger from the
strikers. chief.
Seeing that the attention of the
crowd was thus suddenly centered en-
him, the man with the bicycle strug-
gled out of the crowd again and start
ed on his wheel down Eighth street. A
hundred started after him. Within
block hundreds more Joined the pur-
suers and the next block another hun
0TSus Dy luc liIllC LIE man VII sAAS ~
cycle was run down a half dozen
blocks below, there were more than l.
900 persons surrounding him.
He was knocked from his bicycle and
rot several knocks on the head. Leav-
Ing the bicycle smashed and the own
Or sitting disconsolately ON a door
step, the crowd went on. We'll hang
Ill the Jews on a sour apple tree
shouter the leaders, and some stones
began to fly.
Police Queil the Trouble.
Had it not been for the prompt re-
Spouse to the riot call, which caused
more than 100 policemen, a third OF
them mounted, to be speedily spread
out thru the riotous district, it is likea
ly that there, would have been much
bloodshed. There were eighty arrests
made.
Arnbulances were on hand almost as
son as the patrol wagons, but the only
patient was 14-year-old girl. She
was sitting in her fathers shop. when,
hearing the clang of the patrols. she
ran into the street to see what was
the matter and was knocked down by
brick.
Adding fuel to the flames came the
runnor among the crowd that some per-
aohs had tried to burn the factory. 1t
was even declared that a mass Of oily
rags had been found in the rear OF the
building.