New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-27
first time, how important and comprehensive
the fishing interest is

the fishing interest is.
San Francisco is in a quandaIy. One reason
WHY radical measures cannot be taken agalDs1
Chinatown is that there is no place 10 put inc
Celestial offenders against the health laws IL
they should be arrested The jaiis are already
full of Caucasians At least it is stated that the
jails are overwhelmingly full, and of Caucasians
we assume, Inasmuch as a Chinaman under the
sentence of the laws s understood TO be nov
city in California, if not indeed, thing en-
tirey unknown. Here Is one phase OF cohlpe-
tition then. in which Chinese cheap labor mas
not come out first. and in which the Caucasian
can congratulate himself that he is not played
out.
There was striking illustration yesterday OF
the power Of workingmen over their employers
in some OF the unions. The workmen en-
ploved by one OF the piano manufacturers
stated rs the fua condition Of their return 10
work-an their previous demands having been
accrdcd to-that seven Of their former comran-
ions who had loudly urg the strike but had
abandoned the men and returned t. their places
when The strike actually began, should be dis
charged. To this The reply was that five OF
these men hal been induced to rotAfn by me
personal solicitations Of the finn, but that II
the charge could b, proved AGAINST the other
two those two should be discharged. Inc
charge was proved and the men were us
charged Thcreup0n the strikers announcer
that in consideration Of the families dependent
upon these men they were forgiven, ana TIE
demand for discharge was withdrawn-the men
ACCEPTING their pardon with gratitude. There
was certain rude justice in the demand Ter d
sneak is always contemplate, whether ne D.
trays a striker or an employer; and there was
some generosity In the pardon. Bat the nl-
dent proves, in even q more fOroible way than
the success OF the strike i'self, the fact tlat
some of the tradcs-un0ns at least have not lost
their power.
Yesterdays meetings of the rival Democratic
State Committees must be, on the whole, en-
couracing to Mr.. Tilden The proceedings OF
| the regular Committee show that bis supporters
controlled all its operations, and that his oppo-
nents are still slender minority. A proposed
call for o convention Oh the 9th of June, winch
embodi an absurd plea for spontaneous and
millennial union between Tammauy and anti
| Tammany in electing delegates TO the cOnven-
ton, received only four votes. This was
! offered by an anti Tiiden member, and was OBJ
viously, especially with respect to The late date
! of the Convention, in the interest Of Mr. Kelly.
! Another resolution was offered in the same in
terest, to decid. the place of tA.pext Convcn-
| ton. But this was voted down by 24 to 9.
! The Committee left the power to name the date
! and place Of the Convention In the hands of n
subcommittee, evidently with the idea OF Sc
curing the best hall and hotel accommodations
in the city chosen, and. as a necessary prelim-
mary, keeping the time and place secret. OF
| twenty eight Committeeman asnof ia
give their Preside ial preferences four
teen declared openly for Mr.. Tilden, eleven
said nothing of significance for or against him.
while there we're the usual scattering tributes
! to Seymour, with one lone feeble voice for
BayaId. Among The nOn-cOmmittal eleven,
however, are such devoted adheren's OF the
! Democratic claimant as Messrs. Faulkner,
Whitney, and Apgar. The Committee is more
than ever lis Add to this that the Kelly Com
mttee did not make an impressive snow OF
strength, and the situation is-ior Tilden-
cheerful in the extreme.