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To: Neeka who wrote (245506)	4/4/2002 5:05:42 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Moenmac, re:"I was born and raised in Seattle. Not familiar with ("the Tacoma method")." I can understand why! Seattle is a liberal town, and the "Tacoma Method" is from a period of time that progressives and liberals would like to pretend never happen. washington.edu "The anti-Chinese movement in the Northwest was spearheaded by members of the Knights of Labor, a fairly radical union whose leaders had already gained experience in the anti-Chinese movement in California during the 1870s...a mob of whites, led by Tacoma's mayor and supported by the city police, invaded Tacoma's Chinatown and ordered its residents out of the city. The Chinese were marched to a railroad depot and put aboard a train to Portland." More on the American Labor movement. wpunj.edu "A SPECTER IS HAUNTING AMERICA'S LABOR HISTORIANS: It is the apparition of the Chinese worker...But now he serves as a foil in an ongoing debate over whether organized labor's history contains a rich heritage of left-multiracial virtues or a clandestine legacy of right-racist vices. " "The anti-Chinese agitation in California, culminating as it did in the Exclusion Law passed by Congress in 1882, was doubtless the most important single factor in the history of American labor, for without it the entire country might have been overrun by Mongolian labor and the labor movement might have become a conflict of races instead of one of classes." - Selig Perlman 1922