New-York tribune., 1905-03-27


stand against it.
The association agencies will employ a
only on a salary-no commissions. On sight this
does not show the great evil which the custom OF
fleeing runners wells. Where commissions paid.
runners bring IN every girl they can fnd-incom-
petent immoral and intemperate, all alike They
have regular stool pigeons, whom they urge to
take places with the understanding that they will
leave; they go to places where girls are at work
and get them TO leave. they get another fee.
The greed which such system fosters takes the
manlness. the fairness, the spirit Of fair play, out
OF every man. so he becomes but the tool and in
strument of others. The association agents seek
to prevent these evils by paying regular salaries
to their runners and by "discouraging unfair COM
petition
When girl applies to one agent. another IN
the association will not give her place until the
first agent has had an opportunity to place her
WllI | prevent! his rule saves the girl many fee
ing TO get few cents from her and telling her he
friend and eghbog over the way is ao good nus
These rules touch some Of the fundamental prob
fundamental is their protection These agents re.
are keepn nehan9ab 20 es n 3ch ana
This is prohibited by law, but the law can only
% These agent. say; We will build up the bust
The w by rgPn the rsh Of = being caught b
many woman Is saved for good place or
others evade the law by buying and selling girls
on the streets; others are doing this in unlicensed
places. The accompanying illustration is Of
an unlicensed agency in two rooms in the yard
Children to the number of thirteen were found
sleeping on the floor in one room one morning. To
ing house system as was described the vicious
runner system, and the unlicensed agencies which
do business on cheap plan without paying for
offices. registers, laws or licenses. and under such
immoral conditions, these men indeed require
This association must indeed stand for its own
must take some stand for the protection of women.
It is not there to persecute other agencies; indeed
ards to in. 1t has been besieged with
only its protection but its struggle for right
who were violating the law in some details which
brothers keepers; they are too busy with the
great problem of being their own, but they
say: Until you accept the standards we have set
for ourselves you cannot come in
ASSOCIATION agents a Door Slavic woman She
spoke word OF English, she had not enc friend
carfare. In two weeks she needed to be sent to
maternity hospital m She m told the story that she she
that her child his also. Should these men sit
of Licenses and facts unearthed which showed
that three women had been assaulted and one
taken TO a disorderly house by this agent and his
runners. The mans license was revoked and his
ing inflicted on others But the agent who took
this TO the department was assaulted by
and beaten The other day a little girl OF twelve
sent to do general housework in a family
silent lest they be charged with prosecuting their
fellow workers? The other 81 day wc tsTg sn1Eg
10 the girls and walking away with them Shall
and see this. and women sent out at night with
drunken runners? They are not there as special
stand for honest standards. and as men TO protect
This association comprises but twelve members.
and already some twenty-five applications have
rooms with but one door 10 the apartment He
was told he could not come in until he moved.
1'H1 This man had to be % discharged another paid
IS to % naa man Who bora 1d he o coS nS be aS
mitted- The president / Kaufman is an old and and
Se Seler Who sneceedS the only other secretary the
association has ever had Il RieseT: is New-
Home Co-operative Agency, where all the meet;
ngs & are are Wop and had his training for it with the
United Hebrew Charities and left 70 become su-
other members are Charles Steiner. Goodman &
Moskovitz Samuel Greenbaum. Adolrh scharf D.
The ss afen bse9 asked it's reaton to this
sesdeh s r does Whatever IT can TO protect un-
employed women and to render them more 1T for
f5 {or its organization and principles this house
hold & agd Ob besde the saE aw mas need
ed Groups Of people must be interested IN ITS en-,
gronns which viii feel deeper brotherhood in
The work This association gave TO these men
n tpegly t II them on their feet So long as they com
ps es shown in their own constitution it recommends
Hem as the most trustworthy places on the East
side for employers TO secure employees OF all kinds.
ant fhe Household Research Association and the
rrnloyrnent Agencies Association bring 10 justice
the association agents well as others for vio-
iaffng the law. and there are cases TO show that
there is no Discrimination in the treatment OF
env vIolator Of the law The Household Research
a Assoeiation Investigates readily any complaints
agsfnst them II receives money for any
service It renders them and does not support
them financially, nor is II interested in business
schemes; its relation is 70 them just as II is TO
numerous colored agencies. and many American
gencies-it co-operates with them, ii recommends
t6enn il helps and encourages them to obey the
sv-. il needs their help IN the protection OF women
ami ia raising the standards Of the employment