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',frQ qwasfirasflftw CLUB WOMEN TO WAGE FIGHT FOR SISTERS OF THE UNDERWORLD The club women of Chicago are going to get together to fight the system of fining women of the under world. It is their plahto substitute a shelter home where the girls may re ceive help instead of punishment. The fight will be carried on in both the city council and the state legis lature. An ordinance for the estab lishment of a shelter home is now in the hands of the council health com mittee. Miss Kate Adams, sup't of Coulter House, a home for girls, and chair man of a sub-committee of the Wom an's City Club, will lead a 'delegation of women to Springfield, where it is hoped to even make changes in the statutes necessary for a more human handling of the women of the red light district. The club women are using an ex tremely sensible argument to back up their plea. Fining women caught in the underworld has never done any thing except make more of a slave to the man who gets her out by paying her fine and there are always dive keepers or others on the job to do that. Miss Adams will probably make the argument for the women. And Miss Adams has had many years' ex perience in handling girls who have been unlucky enough to get caught by the hand of the law. It is she who will explain the sys tem that is placed in operation when a girl of the streets gets pinched; how the cafe owner, into whose joint she drags the men she picks up on the street, calls up the station and gets the professional bondsman and asks him to get the girl out. The cafe owner guarantees the payment. In the morning a lawyer, shrewd in the workings of the Morals Court, is engaged by the cafe owner. And then the fine is paid by the cafe owner. But the bond, the lawyer and the fine don't cost the cafe owner one penny. It is the woman who must ioot the bill. He merely advances the money to her. And the only way she can pav him back is to trail again through the streets at night, seek ing men who look "alive." In this way a girl can never shake herself free from the life. If she de cides to abandon the neighborhood in which she has been hustling she finds herself face to face with the prospects of going somewhere and living on $6 a week.. And no matter what the preachers say, it take tremendous courage to go back and live on $6 a week after having once fluttered about the" red lights. Several meetings of the women will be held this week. CABARETERS END IN COURT The end of a cabaret party was staged in Judge Pry's court yester day when Mrs. John W. Martin, 22, 4327 St. Lawrence av., was fined $25 and costs. It was charged that she took Myr tle Anderson, 17, 4104 W. 22d St., around the bright lights Saturday night. "When she got home she savs her husband slapped her. She ob tained a warrant for his arrest, charg him with non-support of her and their 3-year-old child. o o INDICT 26 CONSPIRACY Fort Smith, Ark., Nov. 20. 26 men, including the leading district officers of United Mine Workers, were indicted by the federal grand jury here yesterday on charges of conspiracy and violating the federal injunction granted the Bache-Dor-man Coal Co., which locked out its union miners last April. o o A. A. Klingensmith, .prominent Gary steel man, fell from auto on way to work. Fractured skull. Dead, : jwmsmj