Asiatic Exclusion League, November 1909

The issue talks about Syrians and Turks and becoming naturalized citizens and how that is bad. They quote various people about the racial classification of the Turks and Syrians.

Then they have a document they have read into record, entitled The Japanese Conquest of the Domestic Occupations and Some of the Remedies that Might Be Applied.

They define the domestic workers to include laundry workers, house servants, waiters and waitresses, and garment workers. Since most of those workers are female, the San Francisco Chronicle wrote in 1905 that 5,000 white girls were denied occupations because the jobs had been filled by the Asiatics.

Their answer is a boycott.

They then describe what their “lines of attack” against the Japanese can be:

They also criticize some whites for not going along with the league's desires, and not being ardent enough in their actions.



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