The morning call., 1892-09-28

Chronicle In its issue last Sunday in which
Chinese salesmen were extolled as superior
20 the white shoe clerks in the matter Of
civility to customers and in which the
quality of Chinese manufactured shoes
was commended as superior TO that OF
those made by white labor
All the leading retail shoestores we're
well represented at the meetings.
J. B. Desmon was elected chairman and
J. \. Ferren secretary.
A committee consisting of J. Y. Fer rem.
w. Keith and William Head were ap-
pointed to draft resolutions expressive OF
the sense Of the meeting.
The committee reported the resolutions
printed above, which were unanimously
adopted.
After the adoption of the resolutions there
was a general interchange of opinion. and
many strieture res were passed on the course
of the Chronicle.
Chairman Desmond said he understood
the article had been paid for.
Mr.. Coleman said that Mr. Eliot, the bnsi-
ness manager of the paper. had called
around al the shoestOres during the day and
had apolOgzed for the publication OF the
article in question. Mr.. Eliot had stated, in
extenua,ion that the article had got into
the paper without being first supervised
or reread by the city editor, and that the
Chronicle would publish an apology this
morning.
Mr.. Rosener remarked that it was impos-
Sible for so long an article, with big Illus
tratiOn, to get into a paper without the
supervision and assent Of the managers.
MI Paddock said he had investigated the
matter. and had interviewed the Cinnamon
who had secdred the benefit of the adver-
tisement of their wares.
Three pr0prietors of Chinese shoeshop5
had joined in securing the services OF Mike
de Young's columns.
One had paid $50 another s35 and the
third SIS for the insertion of the article in
the news column of the Chronicle.
NJ. ID. Nolan. prominent boot and shoe
merchant. was called upon to address the
clerks.
He said that the article in question was
so defamatory that it compelled every
American and white man to raise his voice
against the outrage.
When such young men as he saw before
him were compared unfavorably with the
heathen Chinese, they were fully Justified
in denouncing the paper that thus assailed
| them. Applause
He was astonsbed to see such publica-
ton in a civilized country.
He also had been told that the Chronicle
had received Sl0O Tor doing this dirty
| work.
That paper would charge him or any
| other white dealer $500 for the same space.
| The Chinese do not respect a white
| woman.
| They looked upon every woman as on a
| footing with their own class-as prostitutes.
| The white women who visited their low,
| dirty alleys ought to be ashamed of them
| selves while claiming to be Americans.
| fAUplause
Mr.. Nolan said it had been demonstrated
| over and over again that the Chinese can
| not manufacture shoes any cheaper than
| white men.
| They could only accomplish in the same
| time about tw0-tbirds of the work done by
white man and they pay about per cent
| more for their materials.
lie had never seen shoe manufactured
| by Chlnaman equal in quality or finish to
| one made by white man.
He could always tell at glance shoe
| made by Chnaman.
The fault with Chinese-made shoe was
that 1t was always too big in the heel
The newspaper that printed such in
famous slanders on the white shoe trade Of
| San Francisco not only attacked every
| American dealer, but engaged In an unpro-
voked assault upon white labor.
Mr.. Ferren said 1t was burning shame
to find American women running into the
| Chinese alleys patr0niZlng the Chinese
dealers and paying them higher prices for
| inferior shoes than they paid American
dealers for superior goods.
The woman who had her baby rocked by
a Chinaman was disgrace to the COM
Mr.. Paddock said that IL the evil was not
| arrested now the time would come when
| young girls would be lured into the back
rooms OF those shops to smoke opium.
MIR. RosDer suggested that mass meeting
| should be called to express the feeling of
the public on the question.
Messrs Coleman, McGeough, Russell.
| Kennedy, Weldon. Jones, Keith. Rosner,
| King. Glendon and Desmond, each re present
| ing different store, were appointed COM
| mittee 10 wait on the retail dealers TO solicit
funds with which to carry on the work pro-
| vided for in the resolution already adopted.
Mr.. w. III. Keith was elected treasurer OF
| the organization.
vote of thanks to the press of the city,
the Chronicle excepted. for their services in
behalf of the shoe clerks was adopted.
| The meeting thereupon adjourned to
| meet again at the same place at 9 o'clock on
| Monday evening next. 1t was announced
before the adjournment that every retail
! dealer was invited and expected to attend
( the next meeting to take part in the agta-
tlon to suppress the retailing Of shoes by
the Chinese.
BELDEN-SrREET sHOEsHOP.
| A Nice Place for a Lady to Go to Buy
| Shoes.
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