, 1880-02-26
PACIFIC C0AbI


BaOtic-s ErFaah. p.
SAN FRASoIsco, Feb. Is --Unemtloysd
woikinCmen last night marched 10 the Pa.
citic Mail dock aud tho committee inter,
viewed Agent Williams, from whom they OBJ.
tained no direct satisfaction. They then
waited on several firms and companies,
but receiretluo definite answer to their de-
mands. ., ........ ...H
ChIucse r.ibeTers Discharged.
SAN FRANdIsco. Feb. lG.--0n last Sdtur.
day the Pioneer Woolen Mill Co., which
runs mills at Black Point and the Mission,
discharged every Chinaman in their employ
and propose to do without them until the
constitutionality OF the act is determined.
Donald MeLennan, president OF the CON-
pany, states that the action was taken not
out of any consideration OF threats from the
sand lot, but solely out OF respect for the
law. Hitherto the company has been pay.
ing ont SlG.OU0 per month for white LABOR.
and $6, ,00Qto its Chinese employees. The
vacancies will not be filled with white labor,
but after finishing up what work is in the
machinery, both mills will be shut down un-
til the question of tho, constitutionality of
the law is settled. 1t is also understood that
the jute factory, at Oakland, has discharged
all its Chinese employees, 700 or 500. and
will stop work. -'
The Directors Tell n Different Story.
y The directors of the Mission and Pioneer
/ Wooden Mills deny the statement of Donald
McLennan, telegraphed this morning, that
the mills would shut down, and state that
the places of the Cinnamon discharged will
be filled by whites and work continued.
The Crusade Against Chinese Tabor.
- SAN FRANcfsoo, Feb. IL. There was but
small attendance of werkingmen at the sand
lot this afternoon and no parade, but COM
mittee called privately on number of
houses employing Chinese with the usual de-
mands.
bll bl1gHg IA Fatal Affrny. ,nus DJ'.
q, MoKELUMHE HILL, Feb. 18.--7A fatal cut
| ting afflir occurred to-day between Caleb
l,Johnson and Benjamin Joiner about min
! ing claim, in which Joiner was cut in the alb
domen and died i'll an hour. 't"
/osiH Hes sisialive DoinGs. l O.
| SAoRsMENTo, Feb. 17.--The bill limiting
| tho wages and hours of labor of conductors,
| drivers and employees Of strset railroads. was
considered to-day. The time was fixed at
| ten hours per day, 4.. oE'.i
The bill providing for the removal, by
boards of ofsupervisors, of aliens dangerous to
the well being of citizens outside of city Inn
| its, came up for a second reading. Heated
oppos tion was made to the bill by several
country members, who were afraid that the
city would pour its Cinnamon into the coun-
try. 1t YVES killed by II vote Of SO to rs.
Decision Under The New Constitution.
SAN Francisco, Feb. 1S.-The judges of
the superior court sat to-day to listen to ar
gument in the habeas corpus cases OF 5. j.
Robertson and Maggie Brewer, who were
arrested under the dive ordinance. The
arguments were in effect that the new con-
stitution, article 20, section 1Slgives women
equal rights with men in all lawful avoca-
| tions, and that women had the same right
to serve as attendants in saloons as men.
decision was rendered that the ordinance
was clearly in violation of the constitution,
and imperative and void. Eight Justices
concurred, two dissented and two were alb
sent.
10 Girls TO Take The Place Of ChIDese.
Neustadter Bros, proprietors of the Stand.
ard shirt factory, employing a great number
of Cinnamon, to-day informed the Working
mems committee that they intended to dis
charge all their Chinese and replace them
with girls at an advance on 20 per cent in
wages.
The San Francisco laundry, a large estab-
lishmeut, has also promised to discharge
Chinese employees.
A MiserIy RHGptckcr Murdered.
Los ANGELES, Feb. l8.-An old man
named Perrin, who had followed the avoca.
tion Of ragpicker and dealer in old junk Of
every sort, was found dead in his bed at an
early hour this morning He had evidently
been murdered, rs there was wound on
Al. u nk,,c, l.
OF the head. He lived in an old adobe
was thought to have some money here and
in San Frapcisco. Robbery was no doubt
the motive of the murder.
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