The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-08-11

Lent associations; that their functions are exactiy
those OF scores OF like organizato ns throughout hs
az CHARGED at the pnbho meo,,nrs recently held ia
tho CITY OF Boston, brought or caused 70 DO
brought one OF our countrymen 10 ih's coun-
sry under or by any contract IN written
oral or otherwise slave cooie laborer or any Ca
pscity. under bond. contract or agreement under
standing influence advance OF money. We nave
never contracted let hired one any OF our poo
pie TO labor here any capacity whatever; have
never mad, demanded required or received dollar
oil wages or the earnings OF people here. directly
or indirectly, as company companies, nor ms IN
dividual Interests, separately or collectively. Ihs
testimony OF leading citizens given before . Con-
grsssionai Commission fully suostsntated tho lore
going declarations.
Chinese Companies-Yong wo Ming, Yung Kong
Chow YIN wo Sam Yup, Hop wo.
SAN FRANCISCO. cal August 10, 1873.
WHAT THE CHINESE COMPANIES HAVE OFFERED
TO THE SHOE MANUFACTURERS or CHICAGO
THE CrLEsrIALs COMPETING WITH THE
CHICAGO cRIsPIss.
tDY TELEGRAPH TO THE HyRALp.
CHICAGO, August 10. 1878.
The boot and shoe manufacturers mot Mt the Ire
mont House to-day. The following nrms-all the
manufacturers in tho city-wcre represen led :reen-
fielder, Rossnthal l. Co. N. u. Wells 4 Co.. Doggett,
Bassctt Hill; G. II. Fargo l. Co., G. W. Web
brr h Co., q. n. Henderson Co.. Crow
foot, STEELE Cass; Phillip Goldman, George
L. Congdon and Phelps, Dodge Palmer.
Tho meeting was devoted to tho consideration
Of proposition from the SIX Consolidate Chinese In
porting Companies OF Calto,ni, to furnish 500 CHI
nsmen, halt practical shocmskcrs and hall green
hands for three years at seventy cents day per
II. rne manufacturers agreed that they would make
further concessions to tho strikers There about
eight hundred mon IN the strike. They demand $l2 per
week. The anufac,urers OF pay $40 &C. winch they
say Is the most they sTord. Further than Ihis,
they have offered no Cancellation 10 the men, but, on
tho contrary, declare that they will take steps TO
paciiy them. They arc determined that the striking
and that, TOO by the nrst OF next week. they can
go without employment. Should Tho Crisplns
hold out they say they wi 10 December, there u
doubt but that their places Will be led oy Chinese
trace at tho meeting TINS afternoon, were all rgroad
that the scncme good Que, but dfer in opluiou
10 tho prico 10 DO paid the Celestial hands
some OF them Thought that iorty cents IL day was
enough, and mono were wiling 10 pny more than
slxiy. Tho manufac urcrs mndc proposition to the
agent 10 employ 500 OF tho ChInesc provided they
could be planned at convict lobor rates The plan Il
for the importing companies SIMPLY 10 rent the la.
ursrs instead OF pay ing tho hands turn IN
the money 10 the corporation Another meeting Will
be held IN few days Tor dchnc action In the matter
REAIjZlNG sENsE.
The threatened Oi Chineso cheap labor, rs
reality, has created profound sensation among the
laboring classes They never rcalz ID before the
labor questions The most violent OF The socialists, Of
n trades. DEFY the manufacturers to bring them or
and there will DC bloc ishc II 1t is done The social
lists will settle he controversy once and for Il. with
tho muskeL They say the militia and police CANNOT
stand moment before tho cxssper,ted aborcrs who
will rally around the armed "Lehr und Weir Vcrein.