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Chicago are bound to Cornell and Ralston very much as the Yellow men from Canton are bound to the Wing Yung and the Fook Ting Tong.
The lathes and wheels being ready, Cornell calls in seven of his overseers, and tells them, for the first time, that he means to use Chinese labour in his works.
The overseers protest.
“ You are discharged,” he says.
Piper, one of these seven overseers, complains that this notice is a great surprise.
“Pack up your duds and go,” says Cornell.
In time both parties get a little cooler, and the master enters into detail.
“The Chinese, you must understand,” says Cornell to his White overseers, “are mere animals; they cannot learn to do fine work; they are only to be used in common tasks.
Now go and explain these matters to the men.”
The men are no less resolute than the overseers.
“No one,” they urge in opposition to Cornell's proposal, “can draw a line between the White man and the Yellow man. A Yellow man is quick at learning things; and, as he lives on rice and fish, he can afford to take a lower wage.
He has no family to ”
1875.
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