Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-03-13
Victims Write Pitiful Letters
to Vice Commission in Ses-
sion at Chicago Revealing
True Conditions,
MEAGER SALARIES ONLY
ADD TO THEIR WOES
Hundreds Of Kids and Sports.
Hound Them at Every Turn.
Until They Fall Into Their.
Clutches,

ny Morning Journai Special Leased Wirc)
Chicago, March Mockcry. un-
hidden sarcasm. bitterness ANA uathos
witbal are being hurled at the meme
bers OF the legislative vice commits
sion by members of the underworld
Daily, many letters are being received
10y the commission from these women,
commenting upon that bodys work
and It's probable results. one letter.
more bitter than the others. reads.
You're hooking for the things
that made such women az l. Low
wages. dance halls hunger. cold. They
ull helped bit, but they didn't turn
the trick themselves
you're an bunch of hypoerltes
afraid 20 look the thing Ia the face
and afraid TO learn the truth. I don't
know amy girls who sold themselves
for money To buy bread or clothes. but
do know lots of us who hit the road
for Hell because q lot Of blackguards
kept bounding us with their rotten
attentions. God help the men and
not as. Were all right when we start
ALI wc need is 20 be let alone. There
are hundreds and hundreds of kids
and sports who hang around state
street and wait Ike wolves for the
tired girls to leave the stores
Why don't YOU make the men be
good2 An the wages in the world
won't help us Make the men be eood
and the girls Will hc good, Now they
have not got chance and they never |
viii as long as the law smiles 1T one
aud splits at another.
This letter was signed with the in |
itials of T.. Al"
While these comments on the stu- !
alton continued 60 pour In. the civic |
consciousness, awakened by the COM
mission. bostirred itself in the launch /
ing Of committees and private investi-
eating committees In scme stores
numbers Of girls are approaching
their employers to demand larger sal
aries. All were assured that they would
be taken care Of as soon as something
definite had been agreed upon
Several resgnations We're rendered
by girl employees as result Of paren
tal advice 4 mass meeting for the
discussion Of "a living wage mud
Saturday half holiday was scheduled
ny the Juvenile Protective association
The Consumers league and the
Women's Trade Union for next Friday
night.
Another letter signed X. ln t..
rcuds.
The Commission Girls don't go
wrong because they are hungry or
because they need clothes They go
wrong because they are tempted by
lies and ovorpoWercd by the eNil In
men. They listen to the fair and pret-
y things that men tell them and they
AN because they think they can trust
homselves and trust the teinpters, II
s. not the employer was good girl
md worked in store.
II didn't get much money but that
lidnt matter I lived on SIS week
md would be living like that now
,ut ! met men. They seemed to con-
.ldcr me their prey and all the time
{ was hght--llght, They wanted to
10 nice 10 me, they said, and to take
nc To the theater ana treat me fur
md give me a chance to enjoy life ]
lidn't know men were bad--all bad
where girl IS concerned ! thought
nly women were bad. ! thought all a T,
.lrl had 10 do 10 remain good was 10
,e truthful with herself God pity
Women who think That and who keep !,
heir trust In men until II is too late.
Every day it was someone elise
lways smiling at always trying J.
@ give me fair chance TO be happy \
n the street they followed me. These a
could avoid-but the friends who %
ung around that is the big, big #
ecrct Of the thing that makes q girl
ad If they had left me be--if they A
ad only left me bc--only let me live y
$ wanted to- ! wouldn't have had
D sink into the room when your com
lission was trying TO solve things
nd would not have had 70 sit Ia the i.
orner with my veil down, afraid to A.
lok good woman in the face a