I thought: "Holy smoke! Is
he going to convert the Jews?"
I pushed my way farther into the crowd, and saw a policeman, and
went up to him. "Officer, what's this all about?" I spoke as one
wearing the latest cut of clothes, and he answered accordingly.
"Search me! They brought us out on a riot call, but when we got
here, it seems to have turned into a revival meeting."
I got part of the story from this policeman, and part from a couple
of bystanders. It appeared that some Jewish lady, getting her
shopping done early, had complained of getting short weight, and the
butcher had ordered her out of his shop, and she had stopped to
express her opinion of profiteers, and he had thrown her out, and
she had stood on the sidewalk and shrieked until all the ladies in
this crowded quarter had joined her. Their fury against soaring
prices and wages that never kept up with them, had burst all bounds,
and they had set out to clean up the butcher-shop with the butcher.
So there was Carpenter, on his way to the Labor Temple, with another
mob to quell!
"You know how it is," said the policeman.
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