The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-06-12
CHINESE COOLIES.

rescue OF thelr Ass fortunate brethren. should
OCCASION require.
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CHINESE COOLIES.
A short time since we referred to the sub
ject Of Chinese laJor, and predicte hat as
soon as the Pacific railroad was finished
stream Of Cinnamon would begin to flow east
ward, and spread itself ont over the States
assl Of the Rocky mountains This prediction
has been fully verified already we have seen
their iorerunaers ID the streets OF ST. Louis,
Chicago and Philadelphia, and they viii con
unue 70 come until thousands upon thous-
ands Of them viii I'll the land in every a.
rectioH. Already We hear Of emigrant agen-
cies being fol med in the eastern cities for
the purpose Of aiding these Pagans 70 come
here by the thousand, directly from Chtua
They want them in Boston, where eight
thousand women are compelled tc work for
twenty-five cents a day, and where white
men-mechanics and common lab0rers-re-
ceive barely wages enough to keep soul and
body together. They want them 10 pc New
England States where they have tfsse slave
system enlarged and improved upon whore
in their cotton and wooden factories poer, de-
lioate iit;ie children, pale, heart-broken ana
spirit crushed girls, ana stoop-shouIdared
gray headed old women are compelled to
work eleven to thirteen hours day, for an
amount Of money too small 10 purchase
healthy food and comfortable clothing, to
say nothing Of house rent, fuel and medical
attendance.
They want them il New YORK city, where,
for the past Eve winters, there has been al
average Of fifty Thousand white workingmen
obliged 70 i've on private or public charity,
or starve They want them 10 Philadelphia
where the condition OF things i almost a.
bad as in New York, and where all branches
Of labor are more poorly paid than in any
other large city in the country.
They want them il the manufacturing as.
tricts Of New Jersey, where work inguen are
paid in store orders, and then suffer shave
Of % per cent. to get cash for these orders
from the same parties who issue them. They
want them in Johnstown, Pa, where The
Cambria Iron company, run BY the Hon. D.
J. Aorrell, memt er Of Congress, vice-presi-
dent Of the Emie lant Aid Society, president
OF the National Banking Association, &c,
&c, &c, owns some three Thousand white
slaves, who receive the smallest kind Of wa
gss in stole pay, and whose bOle and mus
Gle are u, -tgaged to the company for the
whole Of their natural lives or, at least, az
long as they can work, after which they are
left to starve, or are kindly permitted to en-
ter public alms-house and die.
They want them IA the coal regions
Of Pennsylvania, where more than
thirty thousand miners work for half enough
to buy good bread and meat, and live in
miserable hovels, many OF them with buton
room and no floor, subjected to rules, impo-
sition and hsrdships. such as we're unknown
in the days Of slavery 10 the south.
They want them everywhere ia the east
ern countIy. where there is, al all times,
surplus Of laborers-oi honest, Ipright men
who are willing to work but can find moth
ing to do, besides a vast army Of non-pro-
ducers, who never earned an honest dollar ia
their lives. These we Rnd by thousands
we need rot call the m by name the compa
py too numerous they exist and -four
ISL everywhere they are indigenous to ev-
cry soil, climate and locality. We see them
from the rcd nosed corner ioafer, who oscil-
lates between the gutter and the police sta
ton, all the way down to the bankers and
brokers Of Wall street and other places,
where thieves and swindiers congregate-
And why, let US ask, are these Cinnamon
wanted in all these places here there are
already too many iaborers for the work TO
be done9 1t is because they will work for
a dollar day, and feed, clethe and shelter
themselves. We have the answer in an edi-
torial from the pen Of degenerate Trishman
a man false to the country Of his fathers and
false to the country in which he lives, who
publishes IN aristocratic ''rag" in Philadel
phia. he says: GAS this is the cheapest
species Of labor in the wor.1, we shall have
to lock out for large influx Of it,"
'sThe cheapest labor in the world - Yes,
that is it, then bring it along. Fill our fac
tories with them; turn out the poor "white
trashn and let them starve. Who caress
They are enly women and children. Bring
on your thousands of Cinnamon, and your
ship loads Of Chinese PROSTITUTES. Send
them to Bostcn to take places Of the eight
thousand workingwomen who get twenty
five cents day. They will do the same
work for York shilling and, as they are