They wrote shamelessly racist constitutional clauses suppressing the rights of Chinese people, and got them passed. They also supported the anti-corporation positions of the grangers, regulatory controls on railroads and so on, but got only symbolic language regarding improved conditions for workers.
Frank Roney came down from Nevada to Sacramento to observe the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention. The Workingmen's Party won almost every elective seat in San Francisco except on the Board of Supervisors in the election.
Isaac Kalloch, a former New England abolitionist, was the new mayor. As a minister he had the largest congregation in the city, including a large Chinese Sunday School. But he joined the Workingmen's Party and their anti-Chinese campaign. During the mayoral campaign, an exchange of insults between Kalloch and SF Chronicle publisher Charles De Young led to the latter shooting Kalloch on the street in front of his church. Kalloch survived and won a landslide election ten days later, but immediately was deadlocked by a hostile Board of Supervisors.
When Kalloch was gunned down, Chinese throughout the city made haste to get back to Chinatown, fearing racial violence.
In February crowds of unemployed would form daily in the sandlots and march off across Market and Mission and call en masse at factories and workshops, demanding that the Chinese be dismissed. A number of factory owners complied, leading to over 1, fired Chinese workers. But by spring, the anti-Chinese laws had all been overturned by the courts and the factories went back to employing Chinese.
By the end of the Workingmen's Party had collapsed and disappeared. It left behind a reliable and strong labor vote in San Francisco, which for many years had a large influence in state politics, although not so large as the railroad industry which basically owned it all lock, stock and barrel. Continue Labor History Tour. What Links Here. Maybe or Ireland wasn't great with records as they were in the middle of dying en masse from the famine.
Denis Kearney had likely never heard of irony. This is probably a good thing…because he was an immigrant who spent his life hating other immigrants. He would probably have something to say on the subject, and it would likely be peppered with curse words. At the time, a few people did notice, including writer Hubert Bancroft, who was not a fan of the workingmen's movement. Kearney was born in one of the worst places and times possible: the height of the potato famine in Ireland.
This was when a lot of the Irish decided they might like to go to where the food was, and went to America. Jerome A. Charles J. Denis Kearney was one of most important leaders of the anti-Chinese campaign in California.
Kearney was born in Ireland in and spent his youth at sea. He arrived in San Francisco in , entered the draying business in , married and started a family.
In , he became active in the labor movement, and was known for his impassioned, vitriolic speeches. He attracted large crowds and his orations were reprinted in the daily papers. They hedge twenty in a room, ten by ten.
They are wipped curs, abject in docility, mean, contemptible and obedient in all things. They have no wives, children or dependents. They are imported by companies, controlled as serfs, worked like slaves, and at last go back to China with all their earnings. They are in every place, they seem to have no sex.
Boys work, girls work; it is all alike to them. The father of a family is met by them at every turn. Would he get work for himself? A stout Chinaman does it cheaper. Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too!
Every door is closed.
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