Please pardon this scrap of paper as I have nothing else to write on. I would write to other comrades, to Hillquit or Paulsen, but you are in the Congress and can do more. Yours for the Cause, (Signed) ANNA GVINTER. OCCOQUAN WORKHOUSE, Friday, Sept. 21. Miss Gvinter swore to an affidavit when she came out in which she said in part: . . . The days that we had to stand on scaffolds and ladders to paint the dormitories, I was so weak from lack of food I was dizzy and in constant danger of falling. . . . When they told me to scrub the floors of the lavatories I refused, because I have to work for my living and I could not afford to get any of the awful diseases that women down there have. I obeyed all the rules of the institution. The only times I stopped working was because I was too sick to work. (Signed) ANNA GVINTER. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 13th day of October, 1917. (Signed) C. LARIMORE KEELEY, Notary Public, D. C. Half a hundred women was the government’s toll for one month:- .Continuous arrests kept the issue hot and kept people who cared in constant protest. It is impossible to give space to the countless beautiful messages which were sent to the women, or the fervent protests which went to government officials. Among the hundreds of thousands of protests was a valuable one by Dr. Harvey Wiley, the celebrated food expert, in a letter to Dr. George M. Kober, member of the Board in control of the jail and workhouse, and a well-known sanitarium. Dr. Wiley wrote: November 3, 1917. Dear Dr. Kober: I am personally acquainted with many of the women who have been confined at Occoquan, and at the District jail, and have heard from their own lips an account of the nutrition and sanitary conditions prevailing at both places. I, therefore, feel constrained to make known to you the conditions, as they have been told to me, and as I believe them actually to exist.