JEWELERS OBJECT TO JAPANESE LABOR
Strikers Declare That Women Are Compelled to Work Alongside Orientals at Joseph Meyer & Brothers.

Japanese labor was scored by the Jewelers' Union at their meeting in the Labor Temple last night. Conditions at the Joseph Mayer & Bros. Jewelry Company, where two women employees are compelled to work in the same room with Japanese, were mentioned and Frank W. Cotterill, business agent for the Central Labor Council, expressed the opinion that where such conditions existed the jewelers were justified in striking.

Affidavits were read last night charging the union men with employing coercion, threats and violence to maintain the strike. Those present only laughed, denying the truth of the charges, and Cotterill warned them to desist from all threats. He urged them to hold out persistently and success he was sure would be theirs.

Grant Hamilton, of Washington, D.C., organizer of the American Federation of Labor, was present and encouraged the strikers. He admonished them to abide by the law, but to stand "pat" to the end.