Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30

1t was shortly before o'clock that
Miss Cochran was taken to the station
| house. and few minutes later, after
| pleading with the lieutenant, Miss Anna
Young, worker in the College Settle
ment, at 433 Christian street, obtained
her release.
! When Lieut.. Bauswine. at the station
| house, learned who Miss Cochran was, he
said that She wouldn't have to appear
for hearing the next morning. and she
was allowed to leave with her companion.
At her home in South 22d street one
night recently Miss Cochran said:
! THE arrest was certainly unjust.
| We had got there early, and the girls
was no one to accost if we had tried
to do SO. We walked on the other side
| of the street, and a man in plain
clothes told us as We We're passing the
building for the second time that we
would be arrested if we passed again.
I'VE did pass again, and the man stood
in front Of us and said we were under
arrest for disorderly conduct / asked
| him how we were disorderly. and he said
| that he had told us that we should not
| walk there.
I'VE were far from disorderly. We
hardly spoke to each other and didn t
dare turn our heads. Then, when we
got to the station house. they abso-
| lutely refused to let us telephone. They
said they couldn't do it, and if we
been kept there all night.
II certainly think that was out
rageous. They didn't know what our
people would think when we didn't come
| rested. because now I know that the
statements made by the girls are cor
| rect. When they said they were arrested
for nothing, some persons said that the
girls wouldn't have been arrested If they
hadn't done violence. Now | know that
isn't true.
1t was Miss Cochran who, with Miss
Florence Sanvile of the Consumers
League. made an investigation of the
silk mills in the state by working for
three weeks in the various mills The
results of this three-week tour were en-
bodied in a report in which. by the care
full attention to detail. it was shown that
the two young women had undergone all
the trials of the working girl and knew
whereof they spoke.
The participation Of society women in
the strike has added to difficulties of the
police in dealing with disorders arising
from it.
Already their lot was sufficiently hard.
for to arrest company Of girls involved
trouble. and won only the contumely of
performance, but now that the problem Is
complicated by ...e fear that the prisoner
may be the wearer of some well known
name, and whose parents and connections
may have wealth, position and even DO
litical power, the lot of the custodian Of
the law has been made doubly hard.
The sympathy of women generally is
with the striking waist makers for the
reason that any housewife Knows enough
Of the problems of needleworkt to be
able to understand that at the prices at
which shirt waists are sold the remun-
GRAFTON for making them must of neces-
sity be sadly small.
Many clubs made up of society women
have agreed to turn over SO much money
per week to help the girls along during
the strike period. 4,
Mrs. Clarence Mackay in New York is
doing her part in helping along the move
ment.
In fact. the distraction Of opera, dance,
dinner and reception have lately proved
themselves quite unappealing compared to
the pleasure OF battling for the~rights of
the poorer sister.