Chinese Laborers Boycott White Workers

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 29, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 41.

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Chinese Laborers Boycott White Workers

THE tables are being turned. Heretofore it has been the white laborers who refused to work with Chinamen, and who have "boycotted" the employers of Chinese. But last week the Chinese laborers employed in one of the most extensive cigar factories in San Francisco, struck because the firm had refused to comply with their demands, and turn off their white laborers. It is said that a Chinese Union has been formed in the city, composed of over 5,000 members, who are pledged not to work in any factory where white labor is employed. As the cigar business in San Francisco is larger than in any other city in the United States, and most of the skilled laborers are Chinese, trouble may be expected, especially since O'Donnell is daily urging the unemployed and the vicious classes to "dynamite" all who employ the Chinese, and to kill the Mongolians themselves.