The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-25

'Yrsnk p. weldon. chsiruan: Frank
Baldwin. secretary"
when Wa TIE boycott Of the Chi
nese decided upon
The first suggestion of anything OF
this kind occurred when the Hotel and
Restaurant Employers association
communicated Will our union. wishing
us to appoint Q committee to confer
with them upon the best method to rid
the country of such Objectionable peo-
pie. There was Q committee from the
Cooks and Walters union met the com-
miftee from the Hotel and Restaurant
Employers association, and afterwards
asked the cooperation OF the laundry
men. who, NJ our first meeting. sent a
COMMITTEES. can no say how the
other committees were selected, wheth-
er elected or appointed. but our COM
mittee from the Cooks and Walters
union was elected by the members"
where did you meet and what were
the meetings called?"
I'VE met over Frank p. weldon's res
taurant weekly and they were called
meetings of the joint committee"
What was the avowed design of the
joint committed"
Its avowed design was TO clear the
city Of Chinese and japanese, and the
committees were appointed for that
purpose"
In answer to questions as to the
" ~ JOhat
Baldwin said:
"The secretary Of the joint committee
employed a force of three to six or
seven men at different times, who dis
covered the patrons OF the Chinese and
interviewed such patrons with the In
tion OF p~ersuading them to change their
patronage to white laundries n res
taurants. When such persuasion had
no effect harsher means were employed
In the way of threatening boycotte up
on their business. getting their dis
charge from positions IL they were
working for wages, and fining them in
unions IL they were union men. This
mode of procedure was usually very
successful. but the working force was
still at some trouble to discover the
patrons at the time the injunction was
issued. There were also men who stood
In front Of the various Chinese restaur-
ants and distributed handbills to the
would-be patrons of such places. ex-
planning the nature of the work on
hand and asking their cooperation by
not ~patronizing the Chinese. We also
had what we called a transparency on
a wagon, which was driven through
the streets, explaining to the public that
the Chinese were boycotted and were
Objectionable. ] have forgotten exactly
what was on such transparency. There
were also committees appointed TO visit
all the different unions Of Butte and to
explain to the union men that uch a
boycott was In full operation, warning
them against patronizing the Chinese
directly or indirectly.
When the committee from the Cooks
and Walters union first visited the
Hotel and Restaurant Employers as
ISOLATION there was considerable discus
sion by that association about the best
means to forward this work that had
lapsed for some years. and so a com
mittee was appointed for that reason to
meet in conjunction with the laundry
men. The whole matter was talked
over at the first meeting, and it was
decided then to renew the boycott.
Proxies occasionally appeared at the
meeting from the Hotel and Restaurant
Employers association. Mr.. Sherman
, and Mr.. Locke once or twice were prox
les. The cooks and walters had a.
proxies Pat Kane and Jim Reed. buI
the laundrymen sent no proxies as they
composed the full association them
! selves. There were only three of then
. in it,"
. How were the expenses apportione,
, among the different union represented
: on the cOmmittee?"
> TT was decided thai the Cooks an,
: Walters union should pay one-quarte
{ OF the total expenses. The other three
; quarters were to be divided between
< the other two organizations represent
ed In the joint committee. as the.
r would decide themselves. They decide,
: afterwards. to the best of my recollec
: ton. to pay one-haIf each of the three
r fourths-three- Lights each"
s Baldwin was asked regarding tn
record book of the committee and I
e state to the best OF his recollection
what IL contained in reference to tn
committees proceedings.
4 AS secretary 4 had a minute book,
q he said. I'm hat book I had a pream
BILE explaining that the Hotel and Res
u taurant Employers association ha
y sent a communication to the Cooks an
a Walters asking us to appoint a com
). mittee TO meet them. At the first NEE
= ing OF the committee j had the name
, OF the members present and the usus
. routine OF business that a committe
generally goes through. such as tn
q election of chairman ana secretary an
the names OF the different committed
y men present. and in general the organ
ixation of the committee at the mrs
e meeting. At that hrst meeting It wa
Il decided upon the men we were to en-
J. ploy as the working force. They wer
e instructed to issue handbills, that tn
n secretary ordered printed. in front
n the various Chinese restaurants /
l. Butte during the meal hours: to folio
a the Chinese laundrymen and discovs
their patrons N report the same to III
~ joint committee at the next meetin
m night. At the second meeting til
n working force sent in their report. II
- minutes showed that the report wa
read and approved by the committe
A list of names Of such Chinese patron
% was also read. and II vas decided
u send a committee to interview thel
i and request them to cease their patror
age. Vt The third and other meeting
"a this same mode of procedure was TO
lowed-the report of the committee IA
in read. think that committee repo
was read a number of times: that /
}" the working committee. The laundr,
r. men took the names of the patrons
Chinese laundries and sent their soli'
D. itors to such patrons. The list of re
h taurant patrons was turned over to Il
union men and they were reported
8. all the unions in town. Where the
were union men they were ined: whel
:. they were not union men the commit
= called upon them after the same proc
dure. The men employed were change
several times. The first working for
= WAS GQorae Moroharf- G. a Waite