The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-11-26
GIRLS ARE LUREO
ACROSS THE SEA
LABOR AGENTS DECOY PRETTY
MISSES FROM HAPPY HOMES
TO AMERICA.
LEFT ALONE FEVNILESS
Soon After Their Arrival ard Must
Shift For ThemselNes---Crue Form
Of SWindIing Exposed BY u. S.
Mill Operatives.

London. Nov %, Dear Father, !
have gone to America Goodbye"
/ A Manchester operative named VIII
hansen, on returning home from worl,
about three weeks ago, found this mes.
sage, hastily scraWlcd on piece Of
paper, left for him by his 1G-year-old
/ daughter an attractive looking mill
/ girl.
Naturally. he was tbundersruck.
/ Taking the train 20 Liverpool he
found, after Inquiries that his daugh
Ter had sailed for the United States
| Unfortunately, the steamship did not
call at Queenstown, and doing what
he thought bcs under the circum-
stances he rathr raised the money
TO pay a third class passage to New
York. He took the first steamship
out in order if possible to overtake
aud bring back The fugitive, as TO
whose ultimate fate he had the
grayest fears
Father Rejected at TIlis Island
At New York. however the officers
0 fthe immigration depot discovered
that he had weak heart aggravated
no doubt byl his anXieties. and IL
spite of his appeals and prote IS he
was refused perm ssion to land. After
being detained for several days IN
the depot at Ellis island in an agony
may tina he was to be sent back rs
t,I,s t4tn hg
was in search of his daughter was
treated as a fable.
In q state Of despair the unhappy
man returned to Manchester and laid
hin case before he Manchester
branch Of The British Womens I'M
migration association, and that SO
G ely, of which the Queen is the pa
troness. is now doing It's best through |
is agents IN the United states TO as
sist him
Il Is remarkable coincidence that |
abott The time OF the girls disappear |
ance other young women operatives I
from Oldham and other places near
gave mp their employ |
ment to cmigrate 10 the United States |
on promise OF employment in mills |
just built in North Carolina. Promises
of permanent work at splendid pay |
and under good conditions are said 70 |
have been held out to them by an in
1lvidual representing himself as the |
agent for North Carolina.
h0ugh it is well known that such en-
yagemcnis are contrary 10 the United
States immigration laws, and that the
states have no oific al immigration
gents authorized to tout for labor in
his country
Many GirIe Deceived BY Agents.
Mrs Couross. president of tho Man
'hcster branch of the Woman's Emi
era ion associal on, said yesterday;
We know from experience that such
.ncailod agents take good care to
,cep their doings a secret from us
{ they can They 20 TO work rs
uietly as possible But We do know !
hat from time 10 time this district
s. visited by men representing them
elves To be labor agents, for the pur
md we have had cases Of girls who
AVE gone 10 America on promises of
igbly paid work. only to find that
when they go there that the work did
ot exist, but they were kept in lodg-
ngs by people protc sing TO manage
he business. and charged cxtor.ioI.
te rates which qrickly abs rbed all
heir money. after which they were
ung out pcunilcss to shift for them
elves. II is mos; cruel form oi
Mrs Conross added that Il girls
'mp'ed by such promises would write
o the association AZ 80 Barton az ,
ade. Manchester. they could find out
neither or not The statements made =
ere facts. and emigrate If that I
.urse proved desirable under proper
rejection.