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NOBODY ANYWHERE HAS MONEY ENOUGH TO GET AN AD. IN THIS NEWSPAPER THE DAY BOOK 500 SO. PEORIA ST. 398 TEL. MONROE 353 VOL.2,NQ.93 Chicago, Friday, Jan. 17, 1913 ONE CENT WHITE SLAVE ORGANIZATION TRIES TO TRAP GIRLS OF GARMENT WORKERS' STRIKE Strike Committee Appeals in Vain to Mayor Gaynor and Police Now Striving for Appointment of Policemen to Protect Starving Girls. New York, Jan. 17. A great danger is confronting the strik ing garment workers. That dan ger is the organized society of white slavers. Seventy-five thousand of the 160,000 garment workers now on strike are women. The great majority of the 75,000 are mere girts. Nearly every 6ne of the strik ers is penniless. Few of them know where they will get their next meal. Few of them know where they will sleep tonight. The secret association of white slavers, which has headquarters here and in Chicago, but which is nation-wide in scope, found this out and took advantageof it. The heads of the organization realized tht hungry girl strikers were likely to be easy victims, and sent cadets out with instruc tions to work among the strikers. There has not been a single meeting of the strikers in three weeks which has not been attend ed by cadets, hungry for their human prey. This condition has just been made public by Rosa Blank, chairman of the strike commit tee. She did not make it public until all appeals for help to the authori ties were flatly turned down. The strike committee first went to Mayor Gaynor, told him of the conditions, and asked for protec tion,. Gaynor said he could not do anything about it. The committee then went to the police, and once more were re fused any help or protection. The committee then sent a re quest, signed by Rose Pastor Stokes and the girls of Barnard college, "who voluntarily offered to help out the strikers, toMayor Gaynor, asking him to appoint from 50 to 10Q women as special police to protect the starving