The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-02

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Some went in and some We're per-
| suaded not TO so in.
During what periods Of the day were
these men on guard
During meal hours"
| About how many hours in a day."
Il should judge about five or six
hours
Patting said he was manager for Mrs.
! Niedenhofens business. and that she
| sub-let a portion of the building TO
| Hum Fay for the Palace restaurant.
What do yon know about any effort
| being made To induce her to cancel the
! lease?"
"A committee called and asked if she
| would not put the Chinese out | told
them | would not unless they would
| rent the place and give guarantee for
! the rent.
Did they accept your proposition"
No. sir: they said it would hardly
/ pay Them"
Did you ever see any of the men who
| were standing in front of the restaur-
/ ant lay hands on people who wanted TO
| go in?"
Yes. / saw them take hold of them
and stop them"
What was the character of the inter-
| views-did people resent the interfer-
ence or did they discuss it in friendly
| way?'
They generally stopped and entered
| into a conversation, but | don't Know
| what the ending was
Where did the men usually stand?"
They walked up and down in front
OF the restaurant"
Did you know any of them person
ally?"
They gave me their names at the
time, but | paid no attention to them
and can't now remember
What did the committee say to you
about the boycott, if anything"
They said they wanted to get the
| Chinese out to give white men
chance"
What did they say they would do
| if Mrs. Niedenhofen did not cancel the
lease?"
They said they would boycott herr
| Did they boycott herr" asked Mr..
| Wines on cross-examination
Not that / am aware of
| ID. Giard, of Giard Brothers. grocers,
| testified that during January, Febru
/ airy and March, 1897, he saw the boy
4 cotting banners carried about the
! streets. A committee Of four from a
/ labor union called on him and told him
/ the Chinese boycott was on and asked
4 him to contribute TO fund TO carry on
| the fight.
What did they say they represent
/ ed2"
They said they were committee
| from the Cooks and Walters union
Who among the committee did you
/ know"
This man Walters, Mr.. Harris and
| Mr.. Geiger."
Mr.. Giard Identified a card which
| had been distributed among his custom
/ ers declaring boycott on his store. He
| said his customers brought them to him
! and he was surprised because he knew
| of no reason why he should be boycott
ted, and he went to Sherman's restaur-
ant to hunt up the committee and left
word that they should call to see him.
Walters and two other men called on
him and he asked them why they had
| issued the card.
Because you employ Chinese" re
piled Mr.. Walters.
| ~ certainly do not told them"
- know YOU are said Walters, for
we have seen a Chinese come out of
your house every week
| You are certainly mistaken, /
said"
Don't you live at POI South Wash
ington street. he asked
II told him | did not. and he said the
directory said so. | told him the di-
rectory also said | lived on Broadway
10 years ago, but ! moved once in a
while He said il was mistake. and
he would have il rectified at the meet
ing of the union that night
AS matter of fact, who did live at
POI South Washington street," asked
Colonel Sanders
My father"
do you know as a fact that a China =
man did work there?"
Yes, sir
One of the young lawyers who APP
pears for some of the defendants OBJ
jected to the Introduction of the boy
colt card in evidence on the ground
that it did not show a discrimination
against the Chinese.
And you had better add" suggested
Colonel Sanders. that it turned out to
be mistake"
How much. If anything did you con-
tribute Ia the boycott cause?" MIR Giard
was asked.
One dollar a week"
To whom did you pay the money!"
Il don't know the collectors names
There was a different collector every
week"
For what period of time did thi:
collector come with weekly regularity
to relieve your purse of a dollar"
! He came until we stopped them
What did you tell the committee
about coming to see you before boycott
ting YOU
Il told Walters he should have seer
me first, and he said that was not their
way of doing business. that II was MOI
necessary to see people.
Did he say their way of doing bust
ness was to punish people first and try
them afterwards asked Colone
Sanders, but the witness did not an
swer.
Mr.. Giard said he saw Walters few
days later and asked him what hac
been done about the boycott and Wal.
tiers said it was all right Mr.. Glare
! suggested that the union ought 10 pub
lish a card in the papers stating tina
he had been wronsfully boyeotted, bu
Walters said that would not be neees
sary as the matter had been fixed ant
would go through all the unions. Mr.
Giard said that several customers dit
leave him for some time on account u
. the boycott.
q. f.. Palmer. a tailor at No 60 Eas
Broadway. was called to show TIL
methods of the unions in boycotting
He stated that upon "A time the Jour
neyman Taiiors' union complained .