Identifier: B20442506 (find matches)
Title: Fighting the traffic in young girls, or, War on the white slave trade (electronic resource) : a book designed to awaken the sleeping and to protect the innocent a complete and detailed account of the shameless traffic in young girls ...
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Bell, Ernest A. (Ernest Albert), 1865-1928 Chicago (Ill.). Vice Commission
Subjects: Prostitution
Publisher: (Chicago? : L.H. Walter?)
Contributing Library: Wellcome Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellcome Library

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s and railway stations would re-nuire to know several languages, as well asto be possessed of much common sense anddiscretion. To undertake this work this Asso-ciation offered to engage a large numbex oladv workers, possessing a knowledge euEuropean languages, if the Government womdauthorise them to do so. This was agreed to,and the National Vigilance Association com-menced a work which they earned on for thelast five years, during which time their work-ers have met at the railway stations m Lon-don, and at several of the most important Eng.lish ports, 16,000 young women. 80 per centof whom have been of foreign nationality andauite 40 per cent of whom would have been?n moral per il had it not been for the assistancerendered by the workers on their arrival in England. , _ Thus Article 2 has done much more thanestablish a clear and definite metnod of pro-tection for young travellers. It has roused tneheart of Europe, and drawn the attention ofthe people to the need of being m attendance
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