Working girls worked up over unjust fines!
In 1886 El Paso City council always looking to drum up extra revenue, from the Brothels and Saloons, voted to raise the monthly business fee on the local Scarlet Ladies from $5.00 to $10.00.
Enraged 150 ladies march, in unison, to City Hall, to demand the city reduce the fee back to $5.00!
But City Council easily brakes the ladies will when they threatened to check on their accounting books and arrest those who had not been paying their monthly fees.
The Ladies quietly slinked back to their brothels, and raised their fees on their customers by $5.00!
