Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-05

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that he could get no employment at all. II
Is business men whom live upon, he said
. when l want to secure work they are
the parties whom / desire TO enlist on nv
side
A Voice-If they continue to give you
so much work you will get fat on it.
Mr.. Tanner-Weil, / certainly will never
get fat off of no work at ALL If we wish
to be released from the Chinese curse we
must have the business mems cooperation
Voice-Is there a business man in this
room?
Voice No. 2-Yes, there is one, the news.
paper reporter, and its marbles to nickels
that he employs Chinese cook.
Mr.. Tanner continued in a sensible
strain, advising
COOPERATION WITH THE BUSINESS MEN
Of the community, but his remarks were
interrupted frequently by parties, who
claimed that the business men were welded
to the Chinese, and opponents of white
labor.
Noble Fisher again took the floor, and
spoke for some fifteen minutes, going over
the same ground and claiming that the
Knights of Labor had accomplished much,
and that all the blessings enjoyed by the
laboring man were due to the efforts OF
they were the cause of the Union Pacific
putting down fare to one cent mile
What do you pay on the Central Pacific?
A voice-We don't pay nothing.
MIR. Fisher know you; you tackle the
brake-beams. Who was the first man to
cut down wages in this State2
A voice-Denis Kearney.
Mr.. Fisher-You are right. He advised
the laborer to work for dollar a day, while
he was scooping in the shekels from the
corporations. The Knights of Labor want
you to recognize the fact that without them
you can do nothing. With them you can
command corporate monopoly.
James Dooley-We did not come here to
make political meeting of this We are
neither Democrats nor Republicans nor
knights of Labor. We want to pull to-
gether
Mr.. Mckinney was the next speaker. He
wanted to know whether it was matter OF
business or sympathy with the business
men. He thought if it was sympathy it
amounted to but little. He said he called
yesterday at a large -four mill in this city
and asked for employment, but it could not
be obtained.
ALL THE EMPLOYEES WERE CHINAMEN,
Except one. who was the grain weigher.
He said just as soon as Chinaman could
be obtained who could read figures that
i" white man would have to 60" Who
buys the flour from that mill? The white
laborers. The business men have never
staid with us in the past and they
are not with us now. We don't want the
business man to bamboozle the laborer at
this time.
The Chairman-I will say this for the
Clunie warehouse. They have discharged
all of their Chinese help.
A voice-It is no such d-n thing. |
was there to-day, and saw them at work.
That is some of Tom Clunies taffy.
A voice in the rear-We want nothing to
do with the business men. They think
more of a Chinaman than they do of a
white laborer. To HI with them, and
Chinese, too.
G. Wilmender was the next speaker He
is the individual who asked the Governor
some days ago for labor, and when it was
denied him, he said it would force him to
steal or beg, and he be d d if he would
beg. He spoke tor several minutes. told a
sad story of wife and little ones whom he
had to support, and of the fact that he could
not get employment. He became so af-
fected in relating his condition that he
wept. His interview with the Governor
was then read from the DAILY Bee by Mr..
Fisher. In alluding to the paper he called
it the Tumble Bug, which caused much
laughter. Mr.. Fishers opinion of the Sac
ramento press was a very poor one, indeed;
in fact, he thought there was not a decent
paper this side of Denver Mr. Wilmender
became rather violent in his remarks. and
between his tears said
ALL THE MERCHANTS ARE THIEVES
And robbers. There is not one but that
will rob you. They will tell you they are
losing money on their goods, when at the
same time they are robbing you. They
may be losing money on their goods, but /
notice that they all build fine mansions.
A. LIE Blanc said he had been watching
the business men of Sacramento for twenty
four years, and they were a sorry lot They
all bought of the Chinese. His grocer
would buy a sack of potatoes from n
Chinaman for fifty cents, and then sell it to
him for 81 %, and claim he was losing
money on the goods. He had made up his
mind to trade in the future directly with
the Cinnamon, and freeze out the grocers,
who were the middlemen. His remarks
were very intiammatory, and would indi-
cate that honest men were scarcely to be
found outside of those classed as laborers.
W. H. Wier was called out again and
said: You have heard enough tonight to
satisfy any one of the importance of the
work before you. We must have harmony
"a union of hearts, union of hands, and
every man with his shoulder to the wheel,
we can accomplish much. We must have
no discord nor contention, but with one
common consent stand together, and the
thing desired will be accomplished
On motion, the meeting adjourned to the
call of the Chair, which will not be until
after the close of the San Francisco Con-
vention.