Jumat, 11 Agustus 2017

Was Denis Kearney a Voice for Labor Or a Self-Serving California Agitator?

The Irish-born labor leader bolstered the Workingmen’s Party. At 1:20 p.m., on April 4, 1882, Congress finally received President Chester Arthur’s decision regarding Senate Bill No. 71. The bill, a referendum prohibiting Chinese labor immigration to the United States for 20 years, would in Arthur’s words “act as a breach of our national faith,” and …

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