The daily gazette., 1880-10-30
CHINESE CHEAP LABOR.

A PRoTEsT FROM CALIFORNIA AGAINST
THE PRINCIPLES OF JAMES A, GAR
RIRLD.
Tho following address OF the work
ingmen Of California has been receiv-
cd by the National Democratic Com
mittee by telegraph:
''SAN Francisco, October 27.-The
Workingmen's party of California
heretofore not affiliating with any 9TH
or political party, but now having
unanimously resolved to support Han
cock and English, send greetings TO
their brethren n and sisters of labor
throughout the East, North and South
Of their common country, without dis
tinctiOn of party, and appeal to them
for relief. The toiling masses of Cali
fornia, once occupying the proud posi-
tion Of being the best paid and most
prosperous of any in the Union, are
now reduced to want and in many
instances beggary, by horde of Chi
nese who have Obtrudsd themselves
into every industry. The Chinese
come without families, know none of
the attachments of home or domestic
surroundings, live in holes and sleep
on shelves, subsist on rice and other
food imported from China and do not
assimilate with our civilization on the
Pacific coast. The work of the fac
tory and domestic service is in a great
measure monopolized by them, so that
the interests of the laboring women
and children no less than those of the
=.
and unequal conflict between the two
races, the one of a higher, the other Of
q lower civilization. They have al
most entirely driven the whites from
the cigar, boot and shoe and clothing
factories. They are also exclusively
employed in woollen and linen manu-.
factories, and the canning of fruits
and fish. The laundry work is com.
pletely in their hands, and in fact
there is scarcely any employment OF
manufacture in which they have moi
entered and supplanted the Caucasian
"Our skilled laborers-mea who
have spent years in learning trades
walk the streets without employment
during the day, and return at nigh
in despair to their impoverished homes
ard destitute families. Our boys ar,
no longer apprenticed, and are grow
: ing up to idleness without work an,
u without trades. Our girls are drive
u from domestic service. No one ca
Q hope to compete with the Chinese i
=, any branch of labor in which the
" choose to enter unless he sinks TO thei
. level, gives up all home and famil
o ties, lives as the Chinese do, becomin
= as they are, n mere human machin,
Il The Mongolian evil has reached us an
is now destroying us. 1t will soon b
!" upon you. 1t is not 30 far from Ne
o. York to San Francisco as it is fro
Hong Kong to San Francisco.
n "The 400, 900, 600 of Chinese ha,
awakened from the slumber of age
and unless their influx is checked tn,
ne will flood the Eastern States as tn,
or already have the Pacific coast. v
srs can hope for no relief from the Repu
nd lican party. That party, and espe
tally Garfield, has always worked
'n promote Chinese migration to Il
re- country and to give the Chinese /
he right of suffrage. In 1869 CARTE
d. showed by his vote in Congress th
he favored Chinese suffrage that
WaS, ~ Ao't, lOr ulbplaclnR Will
10 with Chinese upon the work at I
: a Mare Island Navy Yard, and in Is
we he voted to sustain the Presidents ,
nb to Of the Chinese Passenger bill,
Nv measure introduced and passed in G,
"e gress by Democrats, and which COZ
MI have solved this great and burni
a question. Our only hope is IN /
1, election of Hancock and English. 7
nan platform on which they stand spes
in no uncertain terms.
icn 1--WE are not political agitators
on malconten 8, but tie representati,
rec of mechanics and other toilers W
10, have been schooled and made to Il
e derstand the Chinese problem by 81
rS- fering and want. This appeal is ma
OPP not only for our sakes and our far
ETY. lies, but for your sakes and your fal
the lies. Heed it. ]. Fl. GRADY.
-. chairman State Central Commit
WOrkingmen's Party of Califern
'is I'D. ]. GORDON,
we Secretary Workingmen's Party ,