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for the locked door. It was proven that the one door was locked and that they were the persons responsible for that. I think they changed the charge from manslaughter to something else because there was certainly no intention in doing this - criminal negligence or something of that sort.

Of course all the evidence was against them. The law was against them. On the other hand, the factory inspectors hadn't enforced the law. But then they couldn't be there all the time. At any rate, it had been through the courts and they were to be sentenced on a certain day. I was in my apartment dressing to go to my wedding when the wife of the principal proprietor and his mother called me on the telephone to beg me to ask for clemency - to interpose. I remember this so plainly.

Pauline Goldmark and I were thought of by them, and I guess by the prosecuting officers, as being the principal movers in the idea of having these men tried and sentenced for criminal negligence. That was, of course, because we represented our respective organizations who were back of us. We had been the active ones who had helped the district attorney in preparing his case, moving him along, keeping the public officials interested in seeing that this was done and keeping the thing alive. So that when it came to a question as to who would recommend clemency in the sentencing, apparently