The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-08-19
rnv I.nos ouEsTIos-CHrNEsE AT San J,
THE LADonA A. mass meeting Of working

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES At SAN
The Al mass meeting OF WORKING
rKAt via n, Hamilton, Ohio, on Sattraay
h;eh fnr tho nurpose of organizing LABOR
nls sin,, AR. Delaney, of San Francisco, ven
t;,ased his views on the Chinese !aoot QUE
ton as follows: Previous to 1872 tne h a;1
chanics and !aboring men in California u.o
.nt aTnerience great Inconvenience from
the presence of The Chinese because tnsJ
had confined themselves mostly 10 tnS
mines. but about that time they comme,h ',e;
the manufacture OF cigars, In when pus.,
ness some six hundred Americans WEI, ,e
then emplovcd. At this day there arc wv
fhns,sana three hundred Cinnamon ena,
Waved In San Francisco in the manuiac. ~ !.
IF CIGARS. and no Americans SO LIZA. ' tt'n
trade has been completely abso.ptu -, &c. lee
Chinese. Other branches OF trace ha1c " the
suffered good deal, more pafticu'"''
shoemaking. or,n,ovcd in
Tho manufacture of slippers alone IN s"n
Erancisco. Six hundred Americans 49,
.mninved one year ago in the Ihah,il'eS.S =
~ b,,;tS and shoes. this year one huiuieu
L. ord the prospect is that unless sothe-
.S;,,r 10 done to check Chinese importation
thnrS will he none but Cinnamon VINO
romId obtain employment as mecnanics. Vh
the Pacific railroad they cmpioyea twenty
4 IL
;nornen are combining for the purpose oil
forcing Cinnamon out OF the country. They
arc coming on the Pacific mail steamships
AT the rate of one thousand month, and
by sailing vessels one thousand or one thou
sand FIVE hundred more, and in this way
will supply the labor market in oil lts
branches. The capitalists are bringing them
here to get cheap labor. 1t was necessary
the workingmen should take the Initiative
In resisting this, and they could best do So
by the organization of associations.
MIR. Shelton We do not object to the
Chinese the Irish, or the Germans, coming
here as citizens, but we do oSJect TO tnem
coming under a contract with spectators
as slaves. That is the ground the Natlonai
Labor Association takes.
A Voice We do not want the Chinese
here anyhow.
Mir. Delaney Whether they come as
slaves or freemen. still they are degraded
race, male and female the submissive tools
of those who try to Cypress the laborer. AT
this time all the work done in the ml,ls Is
by Chinese at ninety cents day, making
sashes, doors, &C.. and let it be necessary
to come lower still, and they WIN come 10
TWENTY-FIVE cents day, or to sixteen cents
a dav, and then have two cents day more
than in their native land. Do you think
there Is any reason at ali for inviting that
class of people to the United States !!
The people on the Pacific coast are going
to advocate the exclusion, If possible, OF
the Chinese race. [Applause.] On the 9th
of July meeting was held at San Fran
cisco, attended by some three thousand per-
sons, there being double that number IN
the street unable to gain admission, ana
the meeting was unanimous upon the SUD-
ject of excluding Chinese. One week from
that twelve thousand workmen resolved
they would drive the Chinese out. The day
is not far distant on the Pacific coast when
a revolution as bloody as ever marked the
annals of France or any other kingdom
may break out. There is q class OF saints
who believe in bringing them here and
converting them to Christianity, but not Gd a
Christian is really made among them. Inc
Chinese women were all prostitutes, and he
was ready to protest against both men and
women beinu hro,Iuht here.