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Show COLLEGE GIRLS TO AID STRIKERS , Chicago. Oct. 2S. A movement to enlist settlement workers and college girls as pickets in the sarment workers' work-ers' strike tok form last night At a meeting of the garment workers' work-ers' district ciincll, the officers accepted ac-cepted the services offered by the women's trade uuion league, and Miss Agnes Neater, treasurer of the league, made preparations immediately to take active part in directing the movement move-ment in behalf of the women strikers. Miss Xester says tho methods cm-ployed cm-ployed by tho league in the shirt waist makers' strike in New York aud Philadelphia will Je Introduced in Chicago. She says the league at first will limit its activities to supplying speakers- for the strike meetings of women and to obtain women Tor picket duty, "whom the police will not daro use their clubs upon." Thomas A. Kickert, International president of the Garment Workers' union, iu charge of the strike movements, move-ments, said that 30,0o0 men. women, 'boys and girls are now on strike The strike Is for better working conditions and a closed shop. |