The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-11-15
WILL MOVE ON
TRADERS IN GIRLS
Simultaneous Action All Over the
United States Planned by the
Government.

NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-The Worlds
Washington correspondent sends the
following:
With one sweep of its long arm the
department OF justice hopes 10 an.
nihillate organizations Of white slave
traders and stop traffic i'm women I'm
the United States. The machinery
which the attorney general and his as
sistants will use in this nation-wled
battle, consists OF a corps Of legally
trained sleuths who have long been in
the service Of the department and en-.
gagged in running down the worst kind
of criminals. and breaking up the
most extensive fraud schemes. This
corps OF agents will soon be turned
loose IN every city in the country.
Every employment agency, every dive
and RENDEZVOUS In each of the cities
will be fine toothcombed by these hui
man ferrets. The work. investigation
and prosecution. will be done under
the Mann law, law passed at the last
session OF congress, known as the
white slave act. and which covers Cd :
traffic, interstate as we'll as in fed.
eral territories.
have been in the field making prelim-
mary Investigations. They have Wis.
tied New York, Chicago. Denver, San
Francisco. Seattle, FL Paso. Galveston
New Orleans, and the cities on the
lakes In each OF these cities. accord
ing TO the report these special agents
made TO the Acknowledgement. eyi
dence was found to indicate that -
business Of trading in women existed.
Employment Agencies Suspected.
Certain employment agencies ap.
peared 10 be the fountain of the trade
In every city visited it was reported
that white slave traffic was carried
on through these mediums Only in
New York was il found that there
was no real headquarters but that the
business was done there through in
terstate methods which makes the
stringent law of that state all bur
useless. In Pittsburg and Chicago il
was found that the greater part of
the business throughout the country
was mapped out. II was from here
that the trade was disseminated.
The agents also found that along
the Mexican border traffic i'm Mexican
women existed of almost wholesale
character. AT FL Paso. Eagle Pass and
other points of entry along the Rio
Grande, women are brought into the
country every day to be sold TO tbs
highest bidder. All the towns in the
southern Fart o fTexas has for years
beel receiving its quota of this trade,
while some of il has even gone as far
north as St Louis and Chicago, and
as far eastward as Atlanta and New
Orleans
simultaneously. when the depart
menr is ready to act. these special
agents will start work On the same
day the agent starts in New York the
men ON the coats and on the lakes
will begin. Already the department
has census OF the women in This
country who have been brought in
from foreign countries, or who have
been put out i'm the United States
and when the day comes for the strike
every one OF those women will have
10 answer for her whereabouts for a
certain period and tell of any new
additions TO the ranks of the fallen
that ought to be added to the census
list.
Work Of this character cannot be
done by raids as was done In the
bucket shop cases and various other
swindles The agents will have 10
personally mingle with the heads of
employment agencies, steamship
agencies. customs officers and keep
ers or dives IL will he while on these
visits that they will collect their evil
deuce 1t will also be their duty 10
Get witnesses and bind them over for
use during trials. In many cases the
agents may have to spirit their wit.
nesses away from their abodes and
the government Will have TO provide
homes and board for them during the
work.
No one can tell just now long II Will
take TO clean up such a great terri
tory as the whole United States The
mere movement Of a slave from one
state 20 another, or from one city 10
another. makes the interstate clause
OF the law applicable. and II may be
necessary TO trail dealers from state
to state before they can be run down
and arrested I'm this connection every
United States marshal available will
he used to make arrests.
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