July 23 The More Things Change, The More They Are The Same

On this day in Labor History the year was 1877. That was the day that a mob began an attack on Chinese workers in San Francisco that killed four people.  During the mid-1870s a depression swept across the nation.  White workers from the east coast headed west, many to San Francisco, hoping to find a job.  Skilled Chinese workers who had completed their labor on the Transcontinental Railroad also came to the city.