The Republican journal., 1870-06-30
JOHN CHiNAMAN HAS COME.

The labor of the Chnaman has been ey-
to make u trial in an occupation hitherto the
almost exclusive field of the native born Yam
kee-that of shoemaking. A party of - OF
the natives of the Central Flowerv Land have
actually arrived at the town Of North Adams
Mass, where they are to he inducted into
the art and mystery OF making boots and
shoes by aid of the improved machinery
now in use.
Although we have ioreseen that Il demon
stration of this kind was not far Oft, this move
ment comes with Il suddenneas SO surpris-
ing that we can scarcely realize the fact that a
body of Cinnamon is permanently settled in
one of our conservative New England towns
IA graft OF heathensm on the Puritanc tree
and il prepared to crowd ont the sons of
the Pilgrims from a sphere OF labor peculiar
ly their own. The Boston Daily Advertiser.
which sent a reporter to the spot relates the
history of the movement. Calvin I. Samp-
son, II shoe manufactures of North Adams,
has been much troubled, like others in the
sdille DuaiiitSS, ny INC utlllil'lN ol "olhfIl'H
who associate themselves under the name of
Sons of ST Crispin. This Society assumes to
demand that all workmcn in the businc~,
shall belong to it and obey its laws. 1t
makes prices, hours Of labor, and i'll short
controls the business The penalty of retus
ing compliance, on the part of employers is
that his men all leave him. To remedy this
trouble, impelled by strike, Mr. sampson
resolved to try the Chinese market The Adj
vcrtiser says
Mr. George Chase, Mr.. Sampson> keen and rk-
cient agent, made a quick journey TO san Francis
co; surveyed and studied the field there; tried to
make Il bargain with Mr.. koopmanSchap, on the
common system of paying certain sum per- dteH
and furnishing ratiOn>; and failing to bring this to
satisfactory conclusion, concluded acontract with
the Chinese company of kwong Chong Wing. The
main terms of the arrangement are simply these:
seventy-fire lahorerS To be furnished, picked men
out of two thousand on hand, chosen for intelligence
and good character; the men to bind themselves 10
work three years with the privilege of ten; the
company to make up any deficiencies caused by
bad behavior desertion; each man to receive So
Il month the first year and S26 month the two fol
lowing the employer to furnish transportation.
lodging and fuel for cooking; the men to board and
clothe themselves, Mr.. Sampson paying the wages
of two Chinese cooks who also act rs couilSeiorS.
mediaOrS and bookkeepers for the little colony; II
Chinese foreman, of experience in American life i'll
California, but unacquanted with >hoe-nlaklng, To
be employed to look after the men, take care of
them, interpret for them, and keep them up to their
duties at the immense salary for Chinaman. OF
$50 month; and the body of any Chnaman dying
here to be sent back to the San Francisco firm to
be shipped to the land whose earth is formed of the
dust of his ancestors. Mr.. Chase had brought his
party on by cmigrant trains, thirteen days on the
road, plagued by wild curiosity all the way east of
Omaha and occasionally menaced though not dis
turbed by hostility on the route
You have learned by telegraph of the demonstrl-
tons which greeted the arrival of the Chinese,
rous in its apparent dimensions but trivial in act
ual result, and need not continue further in mar
ratlve, but may invite the reader to accompany me
to MIR. SIMPSONS factory. 1t is but few rods
from the main street. on the edge of the riyer-a
neat quadrangular brick building, surrounding
central court A written paper iutters on the
closed doors of the otfce,-''No visitors admitted
until further notice, and the most persistent
knocks and ratings will bring no response: for
and hostility are in the ascendant without,
and there is no telling how the pretense of the