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Best of Proof: The Plan to Kill the Chinese Restaurant

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Chinese Restaurants Are Driving Down Wages

Chinese laborers and Asians more broadly were barred from union membership. The cooks and waiters union even excluded workers who had any Asian ancestry. So they didn't invite them to unionize. They tried to get them fired from other jobs, but then the next steps were restaurant boycotts.

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