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Mary Dreier and Mrs. Margaret Robins had appealed, not only through me, but through many other channels, to women who had real property in the city of New York to post bail for these girls. I don't know how it is now, but there's a commercial bail agent, I think. In those days I don't think that could be done. The only way they could get bail for these girls was from people who owned real property, a house or a piece of land, and would make bail for them. The women, and men too but largely women, who owned property were asked for bail. It startled them a good deal.

The brutality of the police was terrible. They would take these young Jewish girls and bang them over the head with a nightclub. Pictures were taken of them bleeding with their noses broken open. It was pretty brutal. There were pictures of them herded into the court, where they behaved rather badly. They made noise in the court. They screamed at the judge.

People were very much disturbed. They did make bail. Then these same type of women began picketing with the girls to protect them, because the police didn't dare lay a hand on a lady born whose father was somebody of importance. It was most interesting. The sort of friendship and loyalty that grew up out of that kind of a situation was interesting.

It was the beginning, of course, of a series of garment