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Hellraisers Journal – Thursday February 20, 1913
Rochester, New York – Ida Braeman, 17-Year-Old Striker, Shot Down by Boss
From the Chicago Day Book of February 6, 1913:
KILLS GIRL STRIKER WITH SHOT GUN
Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 6.-Ira Braeman, 17 years old, was shot and killed in cold blood by Valentine Sauter here last night.
Ida Braeman was a girl of the garment workers’ strike. Sauter is a clothing manufacturer.
Every labor union in Rochester will unite in the effort to push the charge of murder in the first degree against Sauter.
Sauter was in his shop when a group of strikers gathered outside and called to the strikebreakers within to quit work and join them.
Sauter picked up a shotgun and went to a window. He fired point-blank into the little group of girl strikers.
Ida Braeman was killed instantly; three others were wounded.
Sauter’s shot scattered the strikers, but when they saw the body of Ida Braeman lying in the street they came back, and only the arrival of the police prevented Sauter’s shop being torn down about his head. On the way to the station, the police had to use their clubs to protect the man.
Sauter says he fired because he thought his property was in danger.
[Photograph and emphasis added.]
From Solidarity of February 15, 1913:
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SOURCES
Quote Mother Jones, Pray for dead, ed, Ab Chp 6, 1925
https://www.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/6
The Day Book
(Chicago, Illinois)
-Feb 6, 1913
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1913-02-06/ed-1/seq-28/
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1913-02-06/ed-1/seq-29/
Solidarity
(New Castle, Pennsylvania)
-Feb 15, 1913, pages 1 & 4
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/solidarity-iww/1913/v04n08-w164-feb-15-1913-solidarity.pdf
IMAGE
Ida Braiman/Brayman/Breiman/Braeman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Braiman
See also:
The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-Feb 6, 1913
“Girl Striker Shot Dead
Manufacturer Fires from Window and Also Wounds Three”
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119269130/feb-6-1913-new-york-times-rochester/
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