The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-03
THEY WENT FOR All SIN
How the Boycott Committee
Made the Pigtails Scatter.
SOON HE HEAPEE SAVVY
Transparencies Were Carried Through
the Streets and the Proprietors OF
Hotels and Boarding Houses
Were Labored With.

In the Chinese boycott investigation
which was resumed before Examiner
Blake yesterday afternoon, Fred M.
Rogers was the first witness. He testi-
| fed that during the first four months of
/ 1897 he was engaged as clerk in the
/ Rogers house, formerly the old Ows-
ley. In January he said transparences
We're carried about the streets declar-
| ing a boycott on the Chinese. and ask
ing the friends of labor to assist the
unions in the fight. The witness said
he passed the restaurant of Hum Fay,
on West Park street, nearly every day
and saw walking delegates standing in
fornt of the place, but knew they We're
such only from what he mad been told
While you were acting as clerk of
the Rogers house did any persons call
on you relative to the boycott on the
Chinese?" asked Louis Sanders, who
was conducting the examination.
Yes, sir; committee of three called
on me.
Did you know the menu
Il knew two of them, Mr.. Walters
| and Morehart. I did not know the
/ third man"
For what purpose did they call?"
| They inquired for my mother, and
| first handed her a bill announcing that
a boycott had been placed on the Chin
csc and Japanese, and asking all
| friends of organized labor to help to
make the boycott a success. Merchant
and the third man had some converse
ton with my mother about employing
! Chinese help and asked her to dis
| charge them. They talked for few
minutes and tried to explain to my
mother wherein she would be bene-
| fitted. She said she was willing to let
/ the Chinese go if it would not injure
her business. Walters then spoke up
! and said that il she did not DISCHARGE
the Chinese help, and pretty quick too.
they would boycott her house and make
all roomers quit the place, and would
| eventually drive her out of business"
Did you or your mother as a fact
employ Chinese help at that timer
I'VE did"
Did you discharge them as a result
of the notice given you by the commit
| tee?"
Yes
The witness testified that the COM
| mittee said they represented the labor
unions and wanted to drive all the
Chinese and japanese out of town, and
to do so needed the cooperation of the
people of Butte.
Walters was almost insulting" said
| the witness, but the other two men
were level headed and kept within
bounds"
On the first of April the witness
mother became seriously i'll, and as
they could not get suitable white per-
son to do the work, Rogers went to see
| the boycott committee to get permits
| sion to re-employ a Chinaman until
Mrs. Rogers recovered. The committee
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gave consent, and the witness had no
| further dealings with the committee
after that.
ii. e. Heath, proprietor of the Court
House restaurant, testified that he was
IN The same business during the boy
colt period.
DO you know if there is in Butte an
association known as the Hotel and
Restaurant Keepers association"
asked Mr.. Brooks.
There was
Were you member of it?'
Il was secretary of it,
How many members of the associa-
ton were there?"
Fifteen or So
The witness said e. F. Locke was
president and George Sherman treas
urer. A number of members were
enumerated, including several defend
DO you know of any discussion
among the members of your organiza-
ton relative to a boycott on the Chin
csc at that time?"
There was some discussion.
Can you say whether there was a
committee appointed by your associa-
tion to confer with a committee of an
other union relative to the boycott?"
There was
"Who were the members NJ that COM
mittee?"
Il think w. r. Martin and h c.
Morgan were on it.
What did the committee do?"
Il don't know
Did they ever make report?"
They did, but / do not now know
what it was
Did your association ever place a
boycott on the Chinese?''
Il do not know. | am sure
Was your association represented by
delegate in the Silver Bow Trades
and Labor assembly,"
mo, sir
The witness said he saw boycotting
banners and transparencies and also
saw placards and dodgers of the same
kind, but he could not say by whom or
by what society they were issued or
signed. He said he did not know
whether his association ever contrib
uted anything to the boycott fund or
not but thought the matter had been
discussed in the meetings.
DO you remember who took part in
the discussions?
do | have to answer that question:"
inquired the witness
Yes. SIR replied Examiner Blake.
I do not remember the names of any
particular persons said the witness.