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for the following reasons.”

I remember ho said, “We've got worse on him than you've got.”

I said, “Why didn't you put him out before?”

“Oh, well. Did you say that Mr. Josiah Bailey would back you?”

“Yes.”

“Well, then, that's all right. Just so when we put him out and he squawks, good respectable people will back us. That's fine.”

That was all right. They put Sam Smith out of business and they put a couple of other employment houses out of business. Eventually they sent a corps of police to meet every immigrant train and every immigrant boat that came in. We had a little order. The girls weren't actually snatched off the platform and their last twenty-five dollars taken from them. There was some reasonable protection. Then we got them to pass an ordinance to license lodging houses. We drew up the specifications.

It was there in Philadelphia that I again ran afoul of the trade unions. I ran afoul of the printer's union, who in Philadelphia were a very superior group. Women were not admitted, but they had a splendid organization. There was no effort at all to organize the women in these immigrant