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Show PACIFIC COAST NKWS. CALIFORNIA. The mercanls uud ujiuiufacturerfc of California appear to be making ati earnest t-flurt lodiepense with .their Chinese cheap labcr in in favnr ol white bovs and tril ls. The ureal difli- culty in the way is that of wages. A leading manufacturer, who is employing em-ploying Chinese labor, expressed his desire to make a change in the sewing department, provided he could yet girls to do the work. lie would p:iy more, but be wanted to huve employed em-ployed on whom ho could re'y to work steadily when it became neceB-aary neceB-aary to till a large order. There is apprehension among manufactures of clothing, boots, shosa, etc., that the Chinese will soon get control of thiB trade, unless something some-thing can be doe to check the tide of commerce which is turning that way. One manufacturer thus explained the hardships he bud to encounter : "You see this AlexiB shoe. Our white employes get $S a dozen for making them. Afewduysano they threatened threat-ened to strike if we did not .pay $9. At the Bame time the Chiuese were offering to make all that we needed at $3.50 and $4 per dozen. If we cannot get cheap labor on this coast we must close our factories and import im-port goods from the east. Said a leading merchant : A Chinaman China-man will make these overalls (pointing (point-ing to a stack of them) at $1.75 8 dozen, and furnish the thread, but' tons, elc. All we iurmsh is the harei cloth. White girls can hardly do this, but we can aflord to pay them more. Alter a few months time white gins can earn irom ? to j.uu a day at prices we could afford to psy them. Our firm employs about sixty whito girls. Their wages average more than $2 a day. Some earn $3, but they have to work very industriously. indus-triously. What ie needed now is some concert con-cert of action fo employ white girls and boys too, and teach them the trades which the Chinese are seeking to monopolize. It will do more hrm than good to discharge Chinamen before be-fore other employe are ready to t -ke their places. Another prominent denier believed that a common understanding among all merchants who empl jytd Chinamen China-men might be reached, and somt-thing somt-thing doue toward the gradual introduction intro-duction of boys and girls in their establishments. He said : "We must educate workmen to take the pUce of the Chinese. If we proceed gradually, grad-ually, but in concert, we can, in a few mouths, teach the boys and girls a knowledge of the duties required, and as they became competent to work, gradually discharge Chinamen and give them places. It will require $6,076 lo send a California team to the Creedmoor inter-state match, of which about $3,000 has been raised by the national na-tional guard. NEVADA. The police authorities of Gold Hill and Virginia city are raiding the opium deoB. The assessment of property in Piocbe will fall 60 per cent, below what it wftB last year, owing to low stocks of goods and the removal of a large amount of personal property to other camps. |