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Show C01CTS USED 0! ROAD BUILDING M : : NEW YORK ' . "New York will put its prisoners to j vork making brick lo use in tho con-1 structiou of state roads," said Gov. , Martin Glynn to the great meeting at , Carnegie Hall, New York, where the ' prison labor problem was being agl- ' tated. "In this way 1 will stop the grafting contractors from cheating the state and the grafting politicians from , sandbagging the contractors. I am I grateful to our friend Governor West of Oregon for coming so far tn point out to us here in New York this prac- j tical proposition." I Governor Oswald West made a hit Y 1 before the fashionable audience of 1 I New York's best The Woman's De- l New York's best The Woman's De-l De-l partment of the National Civic Feder- " ' atiou, through the good auspices of i the National Committee on Prison Itbor, has becomc enthusiastically in- tercsted in the problem of the convict, and headed by Miss Maude Wctmore. i ' Miss Anne Morgan, and Mrs. Audist U Belmont, gave a rousing reception to ; the young Western Governor and the other penal performers. The movement of the women will find its definite form in the development develop-ment of a broad educational campaign cam-paign for practical and definite re- forms by the National Committee on . Prison Labor, and it Is expected that 5 the leading women throughout the I : country will follow the lead of the l New York women f , Governor West told how organized jt' labor had encouraged him In his work of prison reform and had passed reso-i reso-i lutions urging the brick-making by convicts: while John Mnnning, editor of the "Garment Worker," contended f j that organized labor had been the real I I prison reformers for fifty years and would back to success the work of the i. National Committee on Prison Labor with its broad national platform of penal reform if it took another fifty Ml years. Manning challenged the graft- HI j ins prison contractors and warned HI j the women to beware of the chicanery 5r I of a shirt firm with prison contracts f .1 which hides under the name of a fake J philanthropy known as the National ' , A. Free Labor Association. Tho union . mail's appeal brought a proffer to help m for the National Committee on Prison rf., M.. Labor's program from the governors f . of New York and Oregon and the f.. m Civic Federation passed unanimous re- i 9 solutions of support and co-operation. |