The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-12-26
Federal Court Takes a. Hand in
Fight Which Is Being Waged
by Union Men Against Mon
golian Proprietors of Eating
Houses.

every labor agitator in Duluth has
oeen enjoined from attempting to dis
courage the patronage of the Chinese
restaurants in the city. The order is
ksr reaching and sweeping. In view
VI the lact that decision in the Fed
sfdl court at Minneapolis may be used
as a precedent, the union may be
permanently restrained from picket
ing in front Of the Chinese restaur-
ants.
There are several very erroneous
statements in the complaint of Hor.
r. Coons and the other Cinnamon
The Cooks and Walters union do not
draW the color line Chinaman will
be accorded the same treatment in the
UNION as any other person, provided
I've abldes by the decision of the union
1he fact is that the Chinese are not
friendly to American workmen or
American institutions. They seldom
become citizens Of the country and
most Of them look forward to the day
when they shall have acquired a for
tune so that they can live in luxury
and ease in their mother country.
The only issue involved in this in
junction proceeding will be the right
to picket. Both sides must be accord
cd rights in this respect. The rights
of the Cooks and Walters union cease
where the restaurant keepers begin.
Courts have always held that the
wrong was not in the picketing itself,
but in the manner in which it is done,
II the union maps out clean course
in this manner there need be no fear
of a permanent order being issued
Copies of the restraining order were
served on the principal defendants by
deputy United States marshal early
in the afternoon and the pickets who
had been on duty in the vicinity of the
place since a boycott went into effect,
were called off at once The union men
held meeting last night and an
nounced after the session that they
would continue the boycott and picket
ing against the other five Chinese res
taurants in the city until such time
as they were enjoined by the court.
They also state that they will fight the
attempt to make the order permanent,
v y tis case 9th ghaHIty
The application for a~-restrainfng or
der which was made on behalf of And
Hall, otherwise known as Hor Coon,
Hum Gin and Lee Cling, is the out
growth of bitter war which has been
Waged by organized labor against the
slant-eyed restaurant men. Several
weeks ago, the question of forcing these
establishments 10 meet with the union
requirements was taken up and when
the Cinnamon refused to listen to the
proposition, & boycott was declared.
Union plckets were posted in the
vicinity Of all Of the pluces, including
the chop suey houses, but the fight cen-
tered on the Charity restaurant which Is
run on the American plan and enjoys
the most liberal patronage of any of its
kind in the city. Small cards were
printed setting forth the fact that the
boycott had been established and citing
reasons why patronage should be with
held. The closing sentence was: Pat
ronize any other nationality rather than
q chink.'
In the petition which is the basis Of
the restraining order issued yesterday,
recites that prior to the time of the
establishment of a boycott, the Charity
restaurant was serving, on an average,
about 700 meals a day and that the
place was paying a profit on an in
vestment of $4,000. 1t is stated that as
patronage fell to 100 meals a day and
the places are said to be operating at
present under a loss 1t is feared that
the business will be ruined unless imme-
diate and permanent relief is afforded
1t is recited in the petition that at
the time the negotiations were being
conducted with the Federated Trades
assembly, one of the conditions which
the union governing body sought to
impose was that only union
labor be employed. The point is made
that it was impossible to comply with
this request as the cooks and other en-
ployes in the kitchen are Chinese who
are barred from membership in unions
The petition states, however, that
American girls are employed as
mattresses at a salary equal to that
paid in other establishments and that
they are satisfied with the amounts
Iaid to them.
Among the other things contained III
the petition is a statement to the effect
that the pickets Tho were stationed
outside of the place were persistent in
their efforts to prevent prospective Gus
toners from entering the restaurant
and that in instances where this warm
Ing was not needed, the people who did
enter were hooted and Kissed and heap
ed with vile epithets, in addition to
being called 'scabs.'
The contentious set up by the peli-
tion are supported by number of at
f1davits Of employees and others, to the
effect that they have been intinidated.
Some Of the mattresses state that they
had been insulted so frequently by the
pickets stationed about the place that
they had served notice on their employ
ers that unless some relief was imme-
diately forthcoming. they would quit
their places. Former Judge W. D. Ed
son and Harland p. Roberts, attorneys
for the petitioners made affidavit that
when they went to consult with their
clients they were accosted by the
pickets who sought to dissuade them
from entering the place and handed
them boycott cards, similar to those
which were furnished to prospective
patrons. They said that a crowd Of:
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