Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-12-19

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to keep the public as xe1I. fron pat.
ronaxaag such restaurants: that for
three weeks 10 the ea'ly par og De.
toher me wege employed by The
Cooks and Walters nnssl to stand In
lOnt Ut Iapane~e restaurants I'm
Third street and distribute match
boxes ON which was pasted n label m
follows: White men and women,
patFonlEe your own race" that this
~as not. strictly speaking. = boycott.
as a boycott must be instituted
through the labor council.
These restaurant keeper2 we're all
examined by me at the Japanese con
snlate In San Francisco. They all
said that they we're not assaulted by
the boyeotaers. but that the efforts Of
the ~boyeotters wese mainly directed
toward preventing customers fFom
entering their places If business The.
Restaurant AsepcE who a struck
With a stone said that he did not
think the stone was thrown az him.
but that 1t was thrown for the pur
pOse Of smashing the windows and
frightening his customers,
II APPEARS that the japanese res.
taurant keepers III San Francisco
have a union 81 their own, Of
which Il. Imura IL president, They
made application. 50 they say. 20 the
Cooks aud Walters union OF San
Francisco for admission TO member.
ship In that union. but their applica'
ton vas denied. After the boycott
had been maintained for a few days
the Japanese restaurant keepers held
"A meeting for the purpose of discuss
ing the boycott and Of devising some
way Of stopping IT They discussed
first the obtaining Of an injunction
and appointed a committee, This com
mittee visited the japanese, American
association. located In San Francisco
and asked the association 10 consult
"a lawyer. They q informed that
u test cas- would cost $500. and thai
II the test cas- failed II would cost
each restaurant keeper $500 for eact
case tried.
A second meeting Of the japanese
restaurant keepers Mas then held. a
which the matter was again discuss
cd, The impression seemed To pre-
vail that even 10 an injunction was
ablaEnad IL u,n,,lH taLa ann lnnU anal
too much money and be ineffective
They then determined to pay money
to The hoycotters ana appointed
committee for that purpose. The
committee consisted Of >. imura. r
kobayashi aud MIR. Nakashima. The
sum Of $3.50 was collected by this
committee from the restaurant keep
ers. In amounts ranging from $17,5o
To s25. An arrangement a entere
into with the leader Of the boy CotterS
whose name was only known To :
Imura, for the payment Of the sum q
$3.50 for the purpose Of declaring the
boycott off. Imura declined to give
the name " the man To whom the
money MAS paid. claiming that he had
promised not Ia do 50, hut II neces
sary he would furnish the name e.
the Japanese consul,
All of the restaurant keepers unit
cd In stating that their business had
fallen off at least twothirds during
the period Of the boycott. The corr"
spOndence between the Japanese con
sui and the chief Of police Is hereto
attached and marked Exhibit ID" Up
By
There have been a number of hoy
colts Of white restaurants In San
Francisco. Oakland. and other cities
In California In the past five or six
years growing out of labor disputes,
These boycotts have been maintained
for weeks at a time. and during their
maintenance threats have been made
and acts of violence have been com
mitted. pickets have been stationed
in front of the restaurants and the
names eve Of customers entering the
restaurants have been taken down
and reported.
| saw the chief OF police. rs also
In. II. Colby. captain OF police In
charge of the district In which most
of the Japanese restaurants are 10.
Gated. and were informed by both of