The New York City Committee of the National Woman's Party passed a resolution of protest against unfair sex discrimination by the police in a recent raid on a dance hall in Manhattan. After the raid, the women dancers were arrested and imprisoned overnight " to protect their morals." The men were "shooed off " without having their names and addresses printed by the newspapers, as were the women's. Said Mrs. Marcus M. Marks: " The story was printed all over the country and then no more done about it. We don't understand how the...
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