Pa.. a preamble and resolution was unanithously adopted asking at the hands of Congress the passage of a law that should not restrict but should exclude Chinese laborers from coming into the United States. The language of the preamble and resolution is as follows: Whereas the experiences of the last thirty years in California and on the Pacific coast have proved conclusively that the presence of Chinese and their competition with free white labor is one of the greatest evils with hichi any country canb afflicted: Therefore. he it ztesolved. That wo ue our best efforts to get rid of this monstrous evil which threatens. unless checked. to extend to otherparts of the Union. by the dissemination of information respecting its true character and by urging upon our representatives in the United States Congress the absolute necessity of pasing laws entirely prohibiting the immigration of Chinese into the United States. At the last convention of the American Federation of Labor. held at Scranton. Pa.. last December. the executive officer of that organization called attention to this fact in a report from which I desire to read a brief extract.
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