Richmond planet., 1906-06-23
Association for Protection of CoIorcd
Women.


Women.
Every self respecting man or wo-
man should be interested in the
work of the above named Associa-
tion and should give it his moral ami
financial support It's efforts are di
rectcd toward the suppression of the
systematic and Wholesale imputa-
tion of colored women and girls
north by fraudulent methods and
for immoral purposes. Seventy~five
per cent of the employment agencies
now doing business are Gisrcputablo
agencies in the north cooperating
with agencies and agents south,
who canvass city, town and coun-
try districts. promising good times"
high wages and little work 90 these
unsuspecting girls who flock 20 the
appeal. (and come north unfit for
the conditions OF work they meet,
when they are sent to work in re-
spectacle homes) who are generally
sent TO disOrderly houses as inmates
or servants.
These girls generally have their
transportation paid by the agency
who sends them. They sign a con-
tract, never stopping to read it and
when they get north find they have
agreed TO work two or three months
for the agency man, VINO holds their
trunks and baggage and in this they
are at Jhe mercy of these unscrupu-
lous people who force them 10 lead
lives of shame. thus they contribute
TO large criminal clauses and their
end is the jail. almshouse and hos
pital. This is why so many parents
and friends never hear from their
girls after they leave their South
ern homes. The Association for
protection OF colored women now
has agents in Philadelphia, New
York, Boston. Baltimore and Wash
lngton who meet boats upon arrival
giving direction 90 respectable lodg-
ing places, where to get work ana
general aid TO colored women and
girl travellers. Its work has been
extended 10 Norfolk, Va, where a
matron is placed on docks to tell
girls when they arrive north. q wo-
man wearing badge will meet
them.
Help me PLANET emphasize this
ASK no man advice nor the wav mn
town; ask only this woman wearing
the badge or policeman" Hun.
dreds or men and women are robbed
and ensnared by asking advice of
strangers whom they do not know
but who appear well and over-wil-
ing to aid. IL is hoped Richmond
viii at once effect the same organi-
zation for large numbers of our
people take boat there for Washing
ton and he North.
Let the good pastors ana repre-
sentative people become interested
and determined to put a suppression
on this traffic in Richmond. Girls
girls, If you will go north for work
anu honest employment listen To the
agent, who will meet you. You can
In advance write for information a
bout work and you will surely get
an answer from: Boston Mass, 264
Boylston St: New York City, III E.
23d st; Philadelphia, Penn, 2O55
Pemberton St; Washington. d. c.,
4 y st. and Maryland Ave: Bal
umore, Nd, 704 George st. Ad-
uress your communications TO agent
OF Association for Protection of
Colored Women.
This organization is to become a
national institution and is extending
its work as fast as its imperative
needs are becoming known and the
Investigations OF local conditions IN
each city can be made In order to
adopt its organization to meet the
special needs of each place. This
Association must become to our race
as familiar honored and established
an institution as is to the worlh tae
Nj. c. A. and Y. w. G. A.
5. WILLIE LAYTEN, Agent
Phila A. p. c. w.