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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 23: Chinese labour. (search)
ng a notice in Kearney Street that good hands were wanted by one Aaron Isaacs, bootmaker, he applied for work; and, as he asked for next to nouspects and hates all Melican men! Yin Yung drew his brethren to Isaacs's shop, and for a year or so Isaacs drove a rattling trade in EngliIsaacs drove a rattling trade in English boots and shoes; being able to run down prices in Montgomery Street, and force the other makers to employ Chinese hands. What cared the Je He lowered his rate of wages. One by one his White men left him. Isaacs took on more Chinese, Yin Yung being now expert enough to instruct man, keeping a large shop, and having a good repute. While he was Isaacs's thrall, he took the Hebrew's cuffs and curses with a patient facdebt by under-selling the Jew to his old customers in the clubs. Isaacs is very angry and very spiteful; but he has not yet been able to deungs. Paul Cornell's fight is raging in the watch trade, just as Isaacs's fight is raging in the shoe-trade. Seventy hands have come from