The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-02-27
THE LABOR AGITATION IN SAN
FRANCISCO.
The Chinese N ust co.

GTeat excitement prevails In San
Francisco over the renewed agitation
against the Chinese. On Wednesday
afternoon the ward presidents, Mayor
Kalloch and a number of representa-
tive w~orkingmen, held a meeting at the
headquarters of the party on Market
street, Kearney presiding. Resolutions
prepared by the party leaders were pre-
sented, the preamble reciting the action
Of the board of health, in declaring
Chinatown a nuisance. The resolu-
lions pledged every exertion to preserve
quiet and good order, and to render any
assistance in their power to the board
of health in carrying out the work;
advised a cessation of street professions
in view of the encouragement afforded
by the action of the board referred to.
Reports are said to have been received
to the effect that the police and certain
other parties were holding secret meet
ings to concert violent measures to re-
sist the enforcement of the law against
the Chinese, and expressed a fear that
some rash counseis might prevail, which
before resulted in the attempted assas-
sination Of the mayor. They denounced
an increase of the police force, and
closed as follows:
Resolved, That we depreciate and de-
nounce any lawless attempt, from any
source Whatever, and declare ourselves
unhesitatingly and unreservedly In
favor of a peaceful process as the sur
est and speediest solution of all our diff
flculties.
Resolred, That while we %discounte-
nance all lawlesSness, and warn u
friends among the workingmen against
it, yet we wish 1t understood, and give
deliberate notice that OH the perpetra-
ton Of any outrage on any of our
friends or leaders, or the employment
Of any police or other force to interfere
with the peaceful operation of law In
the abatement of the Chinese nuisance,
or any accession to the infamous de-
mands Of the craven Chinese consul,
Mr.. Bee, for foreign military interior
ence; w are ready to assert and main
tain our rights, avenge our friends,
and visit upon the low designing min
ions of power, backed up though they
may be by cowardly capitalists and
corporations, punishment so swift and
terrible that the reader of history will
shudder at the record. We have kept
the peace. we intend to keep the peace,
but we are not to be trifled with. The
law must be obeyed, the Chinese must
go; we know our rights, and knowing
dare maintain them.
Mayor Kalloch spoke as to the reso-
buttons, saying in substance that they
embodied his views. He stated that
Col. B. Lloyd Tevis and others met at
the Palace hotel last night, when Bee
made n more foolish speech than ever
Kearney did. He continued: / said to
n thousand lives 1 would guarantee
them and the lives of my children also,
that the workingmen would not be the
first to break the peace; what they want
is work and their rights; they are will
ling to wait for u %peaceable solution nf
the agitation; l know there is q good
deal of excited feeling in this city; we
are not excited, however, the alarm Is
among the capitalists and the people
who do not understand us; it, however,
behooves every workingman TO be care
full in his speech, his conduct and ex-
ample; it is a bad thing to have trouble
in n large city like this, there is none
of us who would not rue the day when
the catastrophe was brought on San
Francisco; l hope there will be no in.
famatory speeches.
In conclusion the mayor said: 'In
these resolutions everything is conserv-
alive and peace keeping; think we are
doing well; / gave the men who
marched in the procession God speed,
and told them to cry aloud until their
cries were needed, but l do advise, I'M
der existing circumstances and in view
of the excited public feeling, that there
be a cessation of marching for a few
days, al a continuance of the process
sions may interfere with the plans for
providing work for the unemployed.
The resolutions were unanimously
adopted. During the meeting of ward
presidents a large mass meeting was
going or at the Sand Lots. AL the
speeches were, to a considerable extent,
application of the matter contained
in the above resolutions.