“All the officers here know we are making this hunger strike that women fighting for liberty may be considered political prisoners; we have told them. God knows we don’t want other women ever to have to do this over again.” There have been sporadic and isolated cases of hunger strikes in this country but to my knowledge ours was the first to be organized and sustained over a long period of time. We shall see in subsequent chapters how effective this weapon was. Chapter 11 Administration Terrorism The Administration tried in another way to stop picketing. It sentenced the leader, Alice Paul, to the absurd and desperate sentence of seven months in the Washington jail for “obstructing traffic.” With the “leader” safely behind the bars for so long a time, the agitation would certainly weaken! So thought the Administration! To their great surprise, however, in the face of that reckless and extreme sentence, the longest picket line of the entire campaign formed at the White House in the late afternoon of November 10th. Forty-one women picketed in protest against this wanton persecution of their leader, as well as against the delay in passing the amendment. Face to face with an embarrassing number of prisoners the Administration used its wits and decided to reduce the number to a manageable size before imprisoning this group. Failing of that they tried still another way out. They resorted to imprisonment with terrorism. In order to show how widely representative of the nation this group of pickets was, I give its personnel complete: First Group New York—Mrs. John Winters Brannan, Miss Belle Sheinberg, Mrs. L. H. Hornsby, Mrs. Paula Jakobi, Mrs. Cynthia Cohen, Miss M. Tilden Burritt, Miss Dorothy Day, Mrs. Henry Butterworth, Miss Cora Week, Mrs. P. B. Johns, Miss Elizabeth Hamilton, Mrs. Ella O. Guilford, New York City; Miss Amy Juengling, Miss Hattie Kruger, Buffalo. Second Group Massachusetts—Mrs. Agnes H. Morey, Brookline; Mrs. William Bergen and Miss Camilla Whitcomb, Worcester; Miss Ella Findeisen, Lawrence; Miss L. J. C. Daniels, Boston. New Jersey—Mrs. George Scott, Montclair. Pennsylvania—Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, Miss Elizabeth McShane, Miss Katherine Lincoln, Philadelphia. Third Group California—Mrs. William Kent, Kentfield. Oregon—Miss Alice Gram, Miss Betty Gram, Portland. Utah—Mrs. R. B. Quay, Mrs. T. C. Robertson, Salt Lake City. Colorado—Mrs. Eva Decker, Colorado Springs, Mrs. Genevieve Williams, Manitou. Fourth Group Indiana—Mrs. Charles W. Barnes, Indianapolis. Oklahoma—Mrs. Kate Stafford, Oklahoma City. Minnesota—Mrs. J. H. Short, Minneapolis. Iowa—Mrs. A. N. Beim, Des Moines; Mrs. Catherine Martinette, Eagle Grove. Fifth Group New York—Miss Lucy Burns, New York City. District of Columbia—Mrs. Harvey Wiley. Louisiana—Mrs. Alice M. Cosu, New Orleans. Maryland—Miss Mary Bartlett Dixon, Easton; Miss Julia Emory, Baltimore. Florida—Mrs. Mary I. Nolan, Jacksonville.