15. Industrialization, Class, and Race:
Chinese and the Anti-Chinese Movement in the Late-19th-Century Northwest
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According to Murray Morgan in Skid Road, "Wa Chong & Co. began manufacturing `Havana Cigars' in Seattle on February 1, 1883. Theirs was the first cigar factory on the Sound.... During the anti-Chinese agitation, a white label on the cigar meant only Caucasian workers were employed...." (Seattle, 1982 edition, plates following p.120. Reproduction from City of Seattle Directory. Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries, Social Issues Files Cb, UW negative #539.)