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Show TEE RACE 'O.VFE3rT. ;Tho Cornell Wsit eh Coinpniiy j Propose lo Employ Chinese Workmen A dlriut. San Francisco, 30. CousLJerablo excitement hns been caused here by the lact that the proprietors of the Cornel! watch factory havedetermined to employ Chinese in alt departments. Seventy operatives from Chicago have protested, and several have been discharged. dis-charged. Today one foreman was dismissed. Nearly all the operatives are from Chicago. A general strike of all is threatened but tho proprietors proprie-tors persist in adherence to their plan of employing Chinamen. The works are. not yet in order. Other foremen will probably be discharged to-day. The company proposed to employ about five hundred persons. |