The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-27

DO YOU know TX n CHINESE itlt
town on account of the boycott?
Il don't know. / heard that a dozen
or 40 left. but I don't know. ! only
wish a hundred or 200 had left
Judge p. II. Burns, the next witness,
said he represented the Plasterers
union i'm the Silver Bow Trades and
Labor assembly during the boycott
period and for a time was president OF
the assembly. He never heard the boy
octt discussed i'm the M 6tirgs and did
not think the assembly authorized or
pafd for anything in connection with
II. He did not remember ever signing
has name to any notices or newspaper
advertisements relative To the boycott,
and if such notices were published II
was lone without authority from MN.
A notice to that effect, over the name
OF Mr.. Burns. had been published in
the Butte Inter Mountain and his atten-
ton was called to IL on c"ross-examlna-
ton. but he said he knew nothing about
it and had never signed the original nor
authorized any one 10 use his name.
Patrick Keane, another Of the DEFEND
ants. the next witness, said he was a
member of the Cooks and Walters union
and had been for six or seven years. He
was familiar with the Chinese boycott
and took part in IL. He said he tried 10
induce people To patronize friends OF or
ganized labor and secure employment
Tor white ptbplt ~ Nv -
clusion of Chinese. He said the Cooks
and Walters union had a business agent
whose duty ii was to keep a lookout and
see that no cooks or walters were en-
plOyed who were not members OF the
union. If one such was found IL was
the duty of the business agent TO ASK
him to join the union. and If he refused
then his discharge would De asked foi.
II the person is not discharged the MEM
hare ,f tho unian NNnnl1 Withdraw tnelr
patronage from such offending em-
ployer.
Does such action on the part of the
union apply to the Chinese in particular
or to non-union men generally?
1T applies to all n~on-union men,
Did o union make any discrlml-
nation against the Chinese
we Disseminated against all nom
union men and against Chinese p~articu-
larry"
The witness said that he Cooks and
Walters union vas organized mainly
with the object of displacing Chinese
with other labor.
on cross-examination by Mr.. Brooks,
the witness said he was 81 years of age
and was born in Ireland. Since the age
of u he has been a citizen of the United
states. He said it was understood when
a person joined the MO that he was to
boycott the Chinese, or rather leave
them alone. The witness said he was a
member Of the Silver Bow Trades and
Labor assembly, and Mr.. Brooks asked
him If the assembly assisted In carrying
on the boycott.
THE boycott was carried on generally
by all the unions" was the answer.
by the Cooks and Walters
YES, sir"
by the L~aundrymen's union?"
II don't know
by the Silver Bow Trades and Labor
assembly,"
II can't say, but | believe. all organ
izations i'm the city were in on it,
Keane defined the word boycott as
meaning to "let alone"
DO you consider it letting II Chinese
alone for three men to stand in front OF
a restaurant and try to prevent persons
from going in and patronizing them
Yes, sir
DO you consider il letting the Chinese
alone To carry banners about town win
Inscriptions ridiculing them?"
yes, sir"
DO YOU consider il letting them alone
If several men follow Chinese laundry
men from house to house and try to get
persons to stop patronizing them
81 would consider that an endeavor
on the part of the men to get other peo-
pie to let them alone
III leulIetl tAdtlllIldlloH AAF Wv
said the Chinese were a menace Ia the
ruling scale of wages n for that
reason members of the union let them
alone and did not patroniZe them or any
one that did patronize them.
lis that the extent of your opposition
to the Chinese?"
Yes. sir"
Keane said he had received nothing in
aymen for the work he done in the
boycott movement.
G. w. Morgan testified that he was q
member of the Cooks and Walters
union during the boycott. He said the
word boycott was not used in the
union. but the question Of Withholding
patronage from them or any one else
who was not friendly was discussed
Nothing but peaceable means were en-
ployed in the Withholding business ano
force and intimidation was never advo'
Gated or c-ountenanced. The only con
nection the witness had with the boy
colt was in Withholding his patronage
from the Chinese. He had nothing Il
do with the boycott on the VIII house
on cross-eXamination the witness sal'
hat a member of the union who patron
lied the Chinese was liable to be expell
ed from the union. He did not remem
bet that the boycott question was eve
discussed in the union except in al
informal way" \ number of reports
were also read tn show that the Chi
nese were e"ncroaChing on the labors o
white women and taking their places
The reports We're referred to the dele
gates 10 the Silver Bow Trades and La
Dor assembly. The witness aid he ha'
no idea where the money came from
with which the boycott was carried or
lie served on a joint committee repTr
senting a number OF unions which hat
the boycott in hand and he presume'
that money was raised by the commit
tee. hut had no personal knowledge or II
l At the conclusion of Morgan's testi
mony the examination was adjourne,
. for the day and will be resumed thi
morning.
There is a tide in the affairs OF me
which. if taken at it's flood. leads o