, 1885-09-18
LABOR NorRs.
Gossip Concerning the situation with
Regard 10 the Chinese Troubles.

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Gossip Concerning the situation With
Regard TO the Chinese Troubles
The department commander has d.
rected the commanding officer NJ Fort
Mckinney, Wyo., to send company A.
Dist infantry (Stone's) to report for
duty to Lieut.. Col. Henry L. Cbipman.
9TH infantry, at Rock Springs. Wyo.
Notwithstanding this order, the COM
mandlng officer at Rock Springs tele-
graphed yesterday asking for reinforce
ments. The reason for this probably is
hat the companies being small and the
lines of guard being extended at Rock
Springs by the opening of the mines, it
becomes necessary to have more men in
order to properly relieve the guard, which
is on duty day and night. 1t is said thata
large number of Chinese are leaving Rock
Springs of their own motion. going west
afoot and on the cars. and it is believed
bere that there will be no further trouble.
and that in the course of three weeks all
the Chinese will have left Wyoming.
Although District Master Workman
Neesham, of Denver. who represents the
Union Pacific division of the Knights of
Labor, was here Yesterday. having ar
rived in the morning from Rock Springs.
there is no probability of the much talked
of strike along the Union Pacific, but
that everything will be amicably adjusted.
1t is much to be hoped that all this il
true, as the ~friendliest way is always the
best way in matters of this kind.
A meeting was called last night of the
two assemblies Of Knights of Labor in
this city, but what their proceedings were
could not, of course, be obtained.
Yesterday the federal officers of the ter
ritory, that is the governor, United States
attorney and marshal, received ~iustruc-
tons to assist in the investigation
of the Rock Springs affair. and all
of them are there this morning.
The Denver Neics of Yesterday has the
following IN what it calls the War in
Wyoming
1t is reported that the Knights of
Labor propose to regulate the employers
of Chinese labor on the boycotting prn-
ciple. We think this would be a foolish
undertaking. There is no certainty that
the Knights would win if they struck on
that ground, and they would be sure to
lose heavily BY their voluntary idleness.
The situation in Wyoming is peculiar.
The United States government is bound
by its treaty obligations with China to
protect Chinese laborcrs who are i'll
treated by Others, and the fact that there
are several companies of federal troops
now at Rock Springs clearly indicates that
the government proposes to live up to its
agreement in this case. The clause of
the treaty in question reads as follows,
and its meaning is too plain to be dis
puted:
IF Chinese laborers, or Chinese of any
other class, now either permanently or
temporarily residing in the territory of the
United States, meet with i'll treatment at
the hands of any other persons. the gov.
ernment of the United States will exert
all its power to devise measures for their
protection and to secure to them the same
rights, privileges, immunities and ex
emptions enjoyed by the citizens or sub
iects of the most favored nation. and to
which they are entitled by treaty"
The Knights of Labor can hardly afford
to fight the United State government.
Their experiments in that direction in
Colorado and Missouri have not PANIED
out well and the situation in Wyoming
can hardly encourage them to Try again
in that territory, We are aware that
there il a strong and general prejudice
against Chinese cheap labor in the west,
and it is easy enough to understand why
white laborers in this region Of high
wages should oppose competition. But