The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-01-10
J. J. Hill Decides They Are
Not a Success.
HAS CHANGED HIS VIEW
The Way They Washed Out His Private
Car Fails to Meet His Approval
White Men to Replace Them.

WOIhluS dIOuS Tie Iue VI Tic NledI
Northern and it's branches must go;
and the troubles which have been on
at Cascade over their importation,
will never again arise to veX the in
ternal machinery of the Office of sher-
if of the county of Cascade, city of
Great Falls, as they have in the not
distant past. 1t is all off and the
Japanese labor question, which has
given the labor organizations of Mol!-
tana and the northwest a great deal
of concern, promises to adjust itself,
at least so far as the Great Northern
railroad is concerned. The Tacoma
Ledger is the authority for the report
that the Japanese laborers employed
by that corporation must go.
This is the order given out by Pres
ident J. j. Hill, and where a white
laborer can be secured to take the
place of one of the foreigners all fore
men are instructed to give him the
place. The Japs at 81 per day, it is
said, have been found to be dearer
than the white men at $1.25 per day,
but the real cause for the order lies
in the fact that few weeks ago the
Japs recently imported by the roads
to the eastern divisions were put to
work in St. Paul, under the nose of
the Great Northern president, which
afforded an opportunity for Mr.. Hill
to become well acquainted with them
and to such an extent that his pri-
mings, is a wreck of it's former beauty.
1t seems, according to the report,
that shortly after the Japs were sent
to st. Paul, a number of them were
picked out for car cleaners Among
other cars to be renovated was the
rolling palace of the president. A
crew OF Japs was sent to it and given
instructions what to do. The fore
man then left them for a short time
and to his horror on his return he
found they had turned the water hose
into the coal box at the end of the
stove instead of the water tank at the
other end of the car. 1t had been
left there unattended and water stood
on the floor several inches deep when
the foreman came in. In every stove
large piece of ice had been placed
instead of in the water tank, and
throughout the whole car had a very
bad appearance. 1t g. happened
that President Hill had intended
taking the car out That afternoon, but
work as he mighr the foreman could
not get it in SHAPE, and the cause,
therefore, had to be explained. To
those who are familiar with the dis
position of the Great Northern pres
ident on such occasions it is easy to
guess the result. The following day
there came from the general offices of
the road an order to get rid of the
Japanese as fast as other men coul l
be secured to take their places.
On the Pacific coast within the past
week there have been several hundred
of the Japs let out, and the work will
continue as fast as white men can be
secured to take their places.
1t is just year since the Great
Northern made arrangements with
the Japanese labor contractors to sun
ply 1000 Japanese. For six months
following there We're daily shipments
until the required number had been
delivered to the line The reason
assigned at the time the contract was
made bv Mr.. Hill was that it was i'm
possible to get white men to do the
work. They were assigned to al
classes of work on the line from Seat
tie TO the North Dakota line unit
about a month ago, when they were
sent to the division further east The,
took the places of white men in al
branches of the service. Many were
placed in the shops of the eompan,
at Hilyard, others at the various sec
lions, in the car cleaning departments
SAAo Ao"uA iAouSSS anu all over.
The contractors who furnished this
labor are of a company formed or
something of the same order as III.
Six Companies of the Chinese ant
which controls many of the thing,
Chinese on the Pacific coast. The
headquarters of the Japanese is a
Seattle. The price at which tn,
company furnished the labor was S
a day, no matter what the class q
work they were to be engaged i,
might be. Of this amount 10 cent
per day from each man went to tn
company for all the period each wa
in the employ of the railroad con
pany.
The men have been scattered alon
the line where they were needed an