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Updated: June 8, 2025
It is inconceivable to the average American that there can be an educated Chinese gentleman, a man of real refinement. They know us by the Cantonese laundrymen, the class which ranks with their lowest classes. At dinners and receptions I was asked the most atrocious questions by men and women.
I know what is happening on our western boundary. Or rather it is not I who know, but my cooks, stable-boys, and laundrymen. Perhaps then ye will have the goodness, worthy fathers, to communicate your plans to me." Mentezufis assumed a look of indifference, and said, "The Libyans have rebelled and are collecting bands with the intention of attacking Egypt." "I understand."
The League's reply to the Oregon laundrymen who asked leave to work their women employees far into the night was, "The World's Experience upon Which the Legislation Limiting the Hours of Labor for Women is Based."
Other streets, where there are no tracks, are sprinkled by coolies, who carry upon their backs pig skins and goat skins filled with water and squirt it upon the ground through one of the legs with a twist of the wrist as ingenious and effective as the method used by Chinese laundrymen in sprinkling clothes. No white man can do either.
The case was appealed, and appealed again, by the laundrymen, and finally reached the Supreme Court of the United States. Then the Consumers' League took a hand. The brief for the State of Oregon, "defendant in error," was prepared by Louis D. Brandeis, of Boston, assisted by Josephine Goldmark, one of the most effective workers in the League's New York headquarters.
Martin looked at him searchingly for a moment, then cried: "By God, I think you're right! Better a hobo than a beast of toil. Why, man, you'll live. And that's more than you ever did before." "I was in hospital, once," Joe corrected. "It was beautiful. Typhoid did I tell you?" While Martin changed the telegram to "two laundrymen," Joe went on: "I never wanted to drink when I was in hospital.
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