The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-06
|MuTTER|NG MOBS
SURROUND JAIL
Garment Workers Strike in Cleveland
Results In Four Women
Being Shot
Down.
MEMBERS OF COMMITTEE
In Case Ono Of the Women Dies As
is Expected, There May be
Rather Serious
Trouble.
MEMBERS OF COMMITTEE
[Gate City Leased Wire Service. j

OlLE aug. uutJCIlAS
mobs of striking garment workers
gathered tonight about the hospital
in which are Ida Abrams, Rose Wal
man and Mrs. Rebecca Davis, and
about the Jail where heavy guard Of
police watched the six people taken
from the home of Abe Porris, after
the three women had been shot from
the windows of the house.
AS hourly bulletins came from the
hospital indicating that Ida Abrams
was momentarily expected to die, the
mob about the Jail grew more and
more restless, and several times the
strikers clashed with the police. The
latter, however, heavily reinforced
from the outlying precincts, we're
able to maintain a semblance of or.
de-.
The three wounded women were
members of committee of ten who
visited the Porris home this after
noon in an effort to obtain the inter-
| ference of Mrs. Porris to induce her
husband to quit "scabbing" as a gar
ment worker. The committee was fir
ed at from the windows Of the house.
! The police have concentrated in the
neighborhood of the district where
the aroused strikers paraded and held
meetings tonight They fear that IL
the Abrams girl dies, the aroused
strikers will attack the jail.
All efforts to quiet the strikers to-
night by promises of arbitration have
failed The air of sullenness and de-
sire for revenge that permeates the
strikers-both men and women-evk
/ ly needs little to stir 1t into action.
Two women were shot by sixteen,
year-old Louis Porris and two others
/ injured by bricks when a frenzied
4 mob of women-garment strike sym
pathizers-called at Porri's home to
day.
i Mrs. Rosie Walman was shot in the
4 leg but was not seriously wounded
Mrs. Ida Abrams, at first thought seri
ously wounded by a bullet from Louis
Porris' gun, will recover, according tt
physicians at Charity hospital. Mrs
j, Rebecca Rosenfeld and Mrs. L. D
Davis were slightly injured by brickl
which we're hurled into the crowd.
Abram Porris is clothing contrac
tor and refused to go out with tn,
strikers. Since the strike began hi
, family has been annoyed continuous
H.
( A committee of ten women starte,
this afternoon for Porris' home, bu
before it was reached they were aug
: mented until they numbered over on
hundred When they appeared the,
were refused admittance and imme
diately stormed the place, breakin
nearly every window in the house.
When the first fusillade of brick
and stones was at its height, youn
Louis Porris rushed to the Porri
l porch with little % calibre rifle i
, his hand and demanded the crowd t
}. stop. His answer was another shove
0 of missiles. He then opened fire
e scattering three shots in the crowC
: two taking effect. BY this time tn
u police arrived and soon had the stu;
l. arrested, along with number of tn
crowd that stormed their home
= Engand's Strike.
!, [Gate City Leased Wire Service]
LONDON, Aug. 5.-The strike situ
ton in London assumed more ser
GUS aspect tonight when 10000 tear
= sters and drivers of all kinds Of v
hicles engaged in transportatio
= Joined the striking stevedores an
h dockworkers. 1t Is estimated 5000
4 men are now on strike. All vehicult
= transportation is tied up. Great co
Germ is expressed tonight over tt
y problem of food and supplies, parl
4 cularly meats. Prices of meats {
ready have arisen to a point prohit
: tive to the poorer element and 9th
a provisions are going up. With l
a, wagons. even the provisions still {
hand, cannot be distributed to mar
sections of the city. Unless settl