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Show TEN GIRLS ARRESTED Nine Garment Makers With. Young California Champion in Jail New York. Jan 28. Charged with disorderly conduct, Miss Maud Younger, Young-er, the young California woman who is championing the cause of the girl workers in the garment makers' strike, was arrested together with nine other girls She refused to pay ;i 2 fine Imposed upon her In the night court, an did the others viitli her, and at a late hour the young women were in custody Miss Younger denied to Magistrate Herbert that she bad refuted to move from a shopping district corner as a policeman testified, and she was cor roborated by Miss Lola La PoUette, daughter of United States Senator La Folletle, who declared Miss Younger was a block from the spot where the officer reported tbe arreBl had bcn made aud was doing nothing to cause a crowd to collect, as charged. Voting began tonight among the idle u.-.i nictit w orkers to ib't.-i niiii" whether their strike, now in us fourth week, is to terminate with acceptance of a sliding scale of wages, from !0 to f per cent advanced by the United Merchants and Manufacturers association associ-ation nnd the Clothing Contractors association. Ballots priutcd in a number of lan-1 milages were distributed among the operators today The voting will con-; tlnue several days and the result; probably will not be announced befor the end f the week. |