The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-20
''ALLEE SAMEE."
Chinese Laundrymen
Of Worcester Up
in Arms.
NO FEARS OF THE BOYCOTT.
Call the Movement of White
Laundrymen an
Outrage.
NO FEARS OF THE BOYCOTT.

Dennis Kearney once upon a time
jumped upon soap box on sandlot
in San Francisco, and earned undying
fame by one exclamation, 1.-THE Chinese
must go!'
That he is not forgotten, is proved
by the adoption of his slogan by the
white laundrymen of Worcester. They
too, say that the denizens of Cathay
must take up their beds and perambu-
late
The peculiar spectacle is being pre-
scented in this city of employers of labor
urging their employees to organize into
union. The purpose is to drive the
Chinese out of the business through the
medium of the boycott. 1t is the pro-
posed formation of a trust through the
fundamentally of employees.
The Chinese laundrymen have heard
of the movement, and they are
aroused. They are strongly en-
trenched and nothing short of a bonn
bardment of cut prices will Gust them.
The white laundrymen elm at the or
ganization Of union and then, after
becoming affiliated with the Central
Labor Union, at having a blanket boy
colt placed on all Chinese shops. This
they believe, will result in people gen
orally disseminating the patronizing OF
Cinnamon, and lead to the placing OF
, the greater part of the business with
the white laundries.
"Dey dive us out of blizness huh?
said one Chink with whom The Spy
man talked 81 gless dey talking
tough dere hats. The China bloys
good loonyun men. We belong to the
slick complanies of Flisco. Wah Kah
Lott here tell you all about it,"
Wah Kah Lott, the reporter learned
on inquiry, IS one of the few Chinese
| tramps in the United States. He goes
from one city to the other like an old
time typographical tourist, and sup
ports life by getting occasional jobs
of ''subbing" in the laundries Of his
countrymen. He is always welcomed
by the Chinks whom he visits, for he
always has a fund of stories, and knows
the latest news concerning the six
companies, and of events in the walled
In empire that the powers of Europe
are thinking of partitioning among
themselves.
Wah Kah Lott proceeded to enlighten
the reporter in chopstick English.
Can you dly lup the Latlantlick
ocean," he asked. at be as easy as tc
bluck against the slick complanies
|
don't get all sletted up for lexelcise
White loudly men fiom loonyun, slick
complanies dot contlol China londlles
say, 'Clut plices and pleople olive us
tlade, loonyun or no loonyun. China
bloys able to live chleeper than Melicar
man, and clut plices so low dive him
out of blizness."
The reporter intimated that there
was talk of throwing down the China
men for purely sanitary reasons. People
say that in squeezing water through
their teeth in the sprinkling of clothes
they breed disease.
| A member of the Central Labor I'm
ion came into the laundry while The
Spy man was there. He felt rather
embarrassed when he saw the reporter
and learned his mission, but excused
himself with the statement that wher
the white laundrymen formed their un
ion, he would cease patronizing tn,
Chinks.
Il don't believe" he said 'in enrich
ing these heathens, but as things ar,
now we have to patronize them NOR,
or less. The money paid these be
nighted yellow-faced, almond-eyet
brethren of ours does not do this coun
try particle of good Eventually the,
all go back to China, buy quarter sec
tons in the rich provinces along tn,
| Yang-tse- Kiang, and live like manda
rims of the red or blue button. witt
coolies to carry an umbrella befor,
them''
Ehe laundrymen have not yet take1
definite steps toward the formation q
a union, but it is given out that they
will before many more days die on tn,
calendar.