Proceedings of the Asiatic Exclusion League , October, 1908

As is usual, I'll just deal with the most interesting bits of the proceedings.

Noting some of the credentials” carpenters, milk wagon drivers, journeyman tailors, and housemovers.

The League found one politician that thought intermarriage between Japanese and whites was okay.

Another breakdown of the types of organizations associated with the League. The labor organizations now make up some 84% of the membership.

There's a section which talks about places that the League has been getting information from, and places no longer supplying it with statistical information on the makeup, by race, of its inhabitants. Alameda and Los Angeles seem to be the only two places not willing to supply the League with the information it wanted.

There's a Clipping Bureau section that appears once in a while, where they note things that have been said in the newspapers. Although they supply the name of the paper, they don't supply the date the item ran.

Related to labor concerns.

Labor related again, this time saying some things packed by Japanese cost three times as much as the same thing packed by whites.

This one talks about a cannery with Japanese men and white women, with Chinese overseers. The idea failed, according to the article.

Hits the Japanese rather hard.

Ah, yes. “American for Americans.” Sound familiar?

Anti-Oriental labor.

This one says it's not the color of their skin that makes them bad, but it's the fact that they see things differently.

It's “nature's decree” that the two races are to stay separated.

They want no intermarriage and no citizenship rights for Japanese.



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