Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-11-01
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10 work With negross. Al one tims.
indeed. white soldiers objected 10 nAV-
ing cred agains; them the same buiisss
that we're nred against negro s1ldIsrt.
All tbsse incidents. hoseysr, were rad
ioalIy different frors the strike Of the
Chinese cigar makers. Ia all OF them
the men VINO refused TO work we're ihs
men of the country in which the cpl
sode occurred. They refused to share
their labor With strangers Who had made
an Industrial invasion OF their native
land, or agains; whom there was some
temporary preiudice OF extraordinary
strength. There has never before been
an instance of the stranger endeayor-
Tag 10 force the paiive from the field Of
labor. The French vsavers Who learn
cd the art from those of Flanders never
dreamed Of endeay0rinR to uonopsilZs
the xeavers' trade. They never dream
cd of invading the Flemish tsvns and
refusing TO work unless their neigh
bors Who we're native born were CON-
PEELED TO stop working. On the contrary,
they felt sIceedinely grateful for
the privilege Of working side By side
With the weavers Of Flanders, and
when their competition became too
strong, and the Flemings tried 10 drive
them from the field. they were not sur
prised, bat carried themselves and their
art back TO France. In this case, how
ever, the exact opposite has taken place.
The Chinese came as strangers into the
United States, they learned 10 make
cigars &c they learned many other
srts snd trades, in America. and nov
they demand that American cigar
makers be excluded from the held;
that American workinRnen be prohibit
Cd from working at their trade IN Amer
lea. IL Ii no wonder that this has
caused q sensation. IL IL no wonder
that IL has caused astonishment. Apt
pupils are these Cinnamon, who not
only learn their lessen but would drive
their teacher from the school room and
run the school themselves.
This Is bat one more step In the Mon
golian advance upon the Pacific Coast.
II IL succeeds, similar strikes may BE-
expected sooner or later wherever Chi
nese labor and white labor Come into
competition and the former become
powerful enough 10 assert itself. Fol
instance. IL might have been expects d
before many years Ia tie coal mines OF
Washington Territory. but II IL TO b.
hoped that the recent discharge of Chi
nese miners will make snch a move i'm
possiSie for many years, or better still
forever. IL IL not 40 long ago that men
Of middle age cannot remember IL. that
Chinese labor op the Pacific Coast
amounted to practically nothing. There
we're Cinnamon In San Francisco and
other large places. but their work vas
confined 20 odd jobs OF one kind and
another. They might be seen wander.
Ing the streets seeking wood TO saw OF
rubbish to carry away. They knew bow
20 do nothing that American working
men cared 80 do. and they vert
In no sense competitors Of Ameri.
cans. The story of their progress from
that point-the zero point--to iheiI
present commanding position foim,
one of tbs most curious AID
interesting chapters In the annals Of
labor. IL is q remarkable study of in.
dustrial development. They have gone
forward slowiy, steadily, irresistibly
like q vast. unoonquerable army undel
q cautious leader, feeling ils way 10 Al
enemy's country. doing sothing rashly
nothing hastily, bat everything with
strength and irinness. They have
taken one stronghold after another
driven tseir opponents cut Of this fort
and that redoubt. beaten back this line
Of battle and broken tia, line OF de-
fence. Occasionally they have paused
In tho face Of passing elamor against
them. but In few weeks their progress
has been resumed precisely as before
IL has been more the progress Of an
army than Of an industrial movement
more the progress Of glacier than Of
an army. From their starting point OF
saving wood they entered the kitchen
and the laundry working about ware
houses. they began 10 drive trucks and
drAys; from their trucks and drays
they vent 30 sea and became sailsrs
they became eigarmskers. and they
have all but completed the expulsion of
shits woskmsn from that branch Of In.
dustry; from shovelline esrtA in the
streets Of the cities they went out upen
the railroads aud shovelled earth there,
they became railroad baiisess. section
hands. sremen they catered the mines
aud became miaers they became gar.
deners they became printers. Each
advance which they have made has been
deemed an impossieiliiy uatil they
made II. Men said they could no, dc
this. men said they coali not do that:
but ali at once they did both that and
this.
There 10 no branch Of skilled labor In
which they have intrenehed thsuseive.
% strongly as in cigar making, Ieey
learned that rapidly; II suited them
and they took IL up in latxe nambers
AZ the Cinnamon ocsaFied The Geld
white wotkmsn were drives from II
until snly 9 fsw remained. Nos the
invaders demand that these fec be de
pstved Of their work and that the Geld
Be iefs In possession Of the alisa. II
the manufacturers Weld 10 tAis demand
they seal their osn doom. Tue Ca =
nese are no, eantsnt 10 DO employess
alone; they wssh 10 be cup oyets a. vel
Already they have began opeFAtins
cigar factories GA their owa seeoans IL
many PLACES aud naless the xltss
msnsfsetarsss aaks hrm siand nox
they vdi vsry soon De aasssly set ssid
Indeed. il ls probably already tee la.