The Placer herald., 1867-04-20
Miners Protection League.

Saturday last. The President having called
The meeting to order, the Secretary read the
following report:
FOREST HILL, March 80, 1867.
"7o the Members of the Miners Protection
League Gentlemen:-Agreeably to Section
OF the Constitution, your Directory have
the honor TO offer their monthly report for
March. H.ma Il.. 49, ltt
During the present month the working
men Of Michigan Bluff have organized a
League, under the name Of 'Ant-Coolie
League having the same objects in view as
the Miners Protection League and from
the Secretary. A. Lopgley, letter has been
received inviting the approval and co-opera'
ton Of this League. saf s,sa
"Your Secretary has placed himself in
correspondence with the Secretary of the
Central Pacific Anti.Coolie Association
Of San Francisco, and obtained from them
a copy Of their Constitution and Bylaws,
as adopted at mass meeting, held at the
American Theatre, in that city, on the 9th
instant. Your Directory find that there is
no conflict between the Constitutions Of the
their interests Identical; but the provisions
Of tho San Francisco organization are more
stringent than the laws of our own. Their
9Th and 9th resolutions require your consd-
GRAFTON. They read as follow:
| Resolved, That all laborers, mechanics,
merchants, and other citizens throughout
the United States, who sympathize with us
in our efforts to protect the labor Of free
white men against the degrading and blight
ing influence of Mongolian competition, are
earnestly invited to organize themselves into
Clubs or other Associations, for the purpose
Of aiding BY unity of action in driving for
TO the white race and the cause Of civil
zatiou,
Resolved, That we hereby extend an earn
est and cordial invitation to all those
throughout the State of California who
sympathize with US in our opposition 10 the
use Of Coole labor in this State to organize
themselves at once into associations, upon
basis similar to the following, and to
send delegates, to assemble in Con
vention, at the city of San Francisco,
on the 9Th day of May, 1867, for the pur-
pose OF agreeing on some general plan OF
action, 10 harmony with and for the better
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principles.
"Your Directory sincerely hope that this
invitation will meet with a hearty response
throughout California, and that The Conven'
tion Of the 9Th May next will place the en-
tire State in position to combat with united
force the great evils Of Coolie labor.
"Your Directory recommend that this
League should elect two delegates to repre-
sent their interests in this Convention who
shall be duly instructed, as TO the wishes of
the League, and armed with discretionary
power 10 act for its best interests, and are of
the opinion that the present is none too soon
to nominate, and elect such delegates and
make preparations for defraying the expenses
thereby occasioned. . 'r n
"Your Directory regret to state that quito
number who heartily sympathize with this
movement, are deferred by the threats Of
employers of labor not to give work to mem
bers Of the League, and one instance has
come under notice, of an employer asking
as requisite to the engagement Of labor
or: How do you stand on the Chinese
question:? These circumstances are of deep
er import than might at first appear TO the
superficial observer. They ara not only in
tended to defeat and Illustrate the objects of
the League, but they clearly indicate the
entering of The wedge, for a far more seri
Gus evil, viz: that of controlling the votes Of
the Iaborng virtually disfranchising
them. Is the boasted political liberty guar
anteed by the Constitution of the United
States to every citizen to be thus destroyed!
Will the working men in California tameIy
submit to have their privileges, their hered-
tary and acquired rights taken away by the
bold grasping hand Of captail 1t is but
another Of the demoraIizing effects of CooIie
labor-a deliberate attempt to grind down
the laboring classes, so as to reduce them to
the lowest possible position, and use their
own votes to still further oppress them.
"A mining claim with mill, ETC., at Yam.
kee Jim's, has changed hands since the last
report of your Directory, and the new firm
partly composed Of citizens Of Forest Hill,
have commenced work with gang Of Chi
nese laborers, which indicates that the em
pIoyment Of Chinese will be as generally
adopted in this neighborhood as circumslan
ces will permit; and suggests the importance
Of this League being strengthened and sup
ported BY every working man, who has any
hope for maintaining the position and free
dom be has hitherto enjoyed.
ut does not appear desirable for this
League to commit itself to any definite
course Of action till after the session of the
Convention on the 9Th Of May, when the
future policy Of the working population of
California shall be agreed upon, and the
entire State organized SO as 10 act in unison.
But let the working men consider that with
them rests the power to secure for them
selves their homes, and means of providing
for their families, or passing over their
homes and occupations to the Mongolian
race. Let them not be deceived by the
specious arguments and persistent decara,
tions Of those who, in face of every evidence
to the contrary denounce this movement, as
'Copperhead,' and use every influence to
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