The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-08-24

and Will Permit no Change.
! Notice is hereby given to all con-
| cerned that the Chinese Exclusion Act
Is not to be knocked out.
It rs as we'll that this fact should
be known to those corporations which
are now anxious to get a full supply Of
cheap coolie labor from China.
! 1t is important that the corporation
! agents who are already planning to
| strike congress in the interest of coolie
immigration should be warned that
they will get into trouble.
The Exclusion act of 1892 will very
soon reach the end of it's term, and, If
II be not promptly renewed, we would
| certainly see swarms of Chinese coolies
rushing to this country. They could be
imported by the millions, all Of them
eager for employment, not only as COM
mon laborers,' but also as workers at
the many trades to which they have
been trained in China.
IT the doors Of this country were
opened to them, there would be an end
to some things.
1t would be useless for the pennsyl-
Vania coal miners to strike, for their
places would be taken by Chinese
coolies, at wages of fifteen or twenty
cents a day.
1t would be useless for cfgarmakers
to strike, for the coolies would take,
their jobs at coolie pay.
There is no end to Chinese carpen-
tiers, bricklayers and masons who
would work for thirty or forty cents 4;
day Of twelve or fourteen hours, in
Guiding Sunday, and live on rice, asking
only chance to chit the pipe" now
and then and feed their dead ancestors.
1t would not be hard for the clever
Chinese to learn the iron and steel
trades, under the direction of the bill
lion dollar trust.
AS cotton factory workers they would
be just the thing cheap and dull.
In short, there is hardly any business
except preaching, that they could not
master in a few years.
What would the American workmen
do? The corporations and the trusts
wouldn't care a rap for that. Let Am
orleans underbid the coolies, and prove
that they can work cheaper, longer and
harder than the coolies every day of
the week, including Sunday. It is in
that way the Flaw Of competition" goes
Let them live on bread and water, as
the late Mr.. Beecher once said. Let
them go to grass, which is where Ne
buchandnezzar went. If they can't pay
for the bread, and aren't allowed on the
grass they will have to fall back on the
Frenchman's suggestion, that they
take in each others washing
What does the billion dollar trust
care? IT only wants big dividends.
But the Chinese coolie scheme is a
far more serious. business than the easy
going Americans think it is. It is a
deep-laid scheme to get rid Of the ex-
clusion law, through which law the in
PRODUCTION of Oriental coolism has been
prevented thus far The corporations
tired Of the demands for better pay and
a shorter work-day, and tired Of Ia
boris talk about its rights" They
would hear no more of these things, if
they could get an unlimited supply of
cheap Chinese drudges.
Does anyone think that this writer is
trying to raise false alarm about the
exclusion act, which will be soon be
imperative? Let him give heed to the
arguments against its renewal, which
have recently been made by WI Ting
Fang, the Chinese Minister at WASH
ington. Let him notice the chicanery
of the Six Chinese Companies of San
Francisco, and the "Chinese Merchants
union" of New York. Let him be given
| to understand that several bills against
Chinese exclusion have been introduced
into congress-, where the bills have
backers. Let him learn the fact that
an&i-exclusion petitions to congress are
| in circulation at this time. Let him
look at the articles on the subject that
are printed from time to time in the
newspapers organs Of capitalism. Let
him ask the corporation agents. Let
him find out If that "open door," about
which 50 much has tely been said, is
to be opened wide enough to admit to
this country Of our hundreds of ship
loads Of Chinese coolies.
No man who knows the truth about
this matter, or who comprehends the
greatness of the powers and the inter-
ests that would profit by coolisn1, will
believe that I am trying to raise
false alarm.
And what started out to say is that
there must be no paltering with this
matter. The Chinese Exclusion law
must be re-enacted by congress, and
made yet more stringent. The working
millions Of the United States will not
tolerate any scheme for their own de-
graduation through an influx of cheap
Chinese labor. They will destroy any
party which favors it. They will knock
out any congressman who votes for it..
They will see to it that the anti-Ameri-
can designs of the pro-Chinese trusts
are thwarted and COMPOUNDED, though
there be ever so many billions of dol
lars in the Golfers Of these trusts. Here
is q notice to all concerned-J. SWinton.