Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1891-02-24
ANTI-BOYCOTT LEGISLATION.

The Legislature OF California is
wrestling with a bill designed to
prevent and punish boycotting.
Tt seems odd that after so many
Court decisions against the boy
cot that any further Legislation
would be necessary, yet this bill
is intended to reinforce and en-
phasiZe these Court decisions.
The Federated Trades of San
Fran cisco is fighting this bill. This
organization embraces, under one
general management, all of the va
rious Labor Unions of California.
II this organization had wise
leaders at it's head it would sup
pert instead OF fight this bill.
No one disputes the right of labor
to organize and protect itself. But
Of late it has arrogated the right
to injure the business of any body
who does not low to its DEGREES,
and in a fight against A ruin b
if B does not choose to act as
an ally in the battle.
A restaurant in San Francisco,
finds in its employ a waiter who
is offensive to patrons of the place,
because perhaps Of bad breath
offensive manners aud general
worthl ssness. He is discharged
and inside the week lays his griev-
ances before the Order of United
Walters and Dishwashers and the
matter, after being critically dis
cussed, is referred to the Grand
Council of Federated Trades in
their executive session, and the
restaurant is ordered to reinstate
the obnoxious waiter or be boy
cotted.
The writ of interdict is nailed on
the door as it was on the churches
in olden times, and the tailor in
the same block who dares to pat
ronize the restaurant after the
boycott has been pronounced, is
notified that he can make no more
pants for the Federation, the wives
of the workingmen are not allowed
to purchase bread OF the baker
who eats there, and so on.
The Federated Trades Of San
Francisco have gone beyond the
boycott in their battles with their
employers. They have claimed the
right to dictate how the employer
must manage his business, and
also to break the heads OF any
body willing to work for him.
Thus mob law, rufianism and
violence have become the natural
offspring Of the boycott and these
are the factors of disintegration
which will eventually shatter the
labor organizations of the Coast.
The bill in the California Legis-
lature is causing great deal OF
worry to the members who fear
the political consequence Of their
vote in certain districts.
The boycott was brought to this
country from across the water,
and the men who now use it as a
weapon are mostly foreigners who
are themselves responsible for the
low wages OF labor in America.
If American labor wants to i'm
prove it's condition it must begin
to boycott at Castle Garden, and
see that the refuse Of the poor
houses and penitentiaries of the
Old World is not dumped on to
the American labor market.
Instead of fighting bill which
will enable Americans to manage
their own business, in which they
have invested brains and capital,
let them petition to Congress to
dam the stream Of pauper and
criminal immigration which now
mandates this country.
If the men who have come over
here from other countries do not
like the way Americans manage
their business they know the way
back. and there are no strings on
their getting there. These men
are to-day spending more for