From tHe "Norra-Cutna Darcy News" or OCTOBER 13, 1878
The Chinese question has suddenly cropped, up at Chicago in a practical Shape. There has been a great strike of shoemakers in that city. The men Complain that after their wages had reached starvation point, a further reduction has been made by the masters, that their work is not constant, and in many cases they do not average Six months a year on the pay roll The manufacturers, on the other Hand, after threatening tọ send their work to New England, or to procure convict labour. which would be still cheaper, have, it is stated, entered into negotiations for obtaining Chinese workmen at very low rates. Ata meeting manufacturers held in Chicago a proposal ed jose Guinese Importing, Companies of California to furnish 1,500 men, half practical shoemakers and half "green hands" for three years at 75 cents a day per man. The scheme is considered to be a good one, Chinese labour having been for many years employed with good results by one of the large shoe-manufacturing firms in the United States. The importing companies simply send the labourers to the "manufacturers, who instead of paying the Hands, remit the money to the companies.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.