The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-11-05
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ALL ASIATICS
FRISCO LABOR COUNCIL ADOPTS
RESOLUTIONS DENOUNCING I'M
PORTATION OF KOREANS HERE.

SAN FRANCISCO oct. 24.-The La
Dor Council las. night adopted the fo!-
loving resolutions
Whereas, Mongolia,i and Utner As'at"
ic cheap labor 10 not inly a detriment
to the progress of the american work.
ers, but to that of the nation as
whole;
Whereas, Strenuous efforts are now
being made in the Philippine Islands by
nearly all of the representatives of
European capital and by some repre-
sentatives of American capital to open
these islands to Chinese coolie labor
which inevitably will lead not only to
the lowering of the already small wag-
es of the Filipino workers, but ulti-
mately to the crowding out of the ma
tive workmen and native business men
by Chinese
Whereas, In the Hawaiian Islands,
out of the population of about 100000,
there are 10000 Japanese, 20, 700 Chi
nese, and of late. Koreans, who are
/ Chinese in build and customs. are being
brought in, the purpose of the lava T.
an Sugar Planters Association being to
import IN the near future 10000 of suGn
Koreans as an experiment. who-as at
present there is already a large surplus
of Monaghan labor in these islands, la
D
to the mainland of the United States,
especially to the Pacific Coast States
will come to our country, the Hawaiian
Islands thus being IA ID as a bridg4 to
bring cheap Monaghan labor into the
United States; and
Whereas Chinese and japanese, es-
pecially the latter, are rapidly driving
to restitution and extinction the native
Hawaiians and out of the islands the
few white mechanics, the few small
white settlers and the small white BUSH
ness men, leaving the islands in full
control by the Hawaiian Sugar liant
ers' Association, an association con-
/ tro'leo by a few men of great wealch;
and
/ Whereas, The census of 1900 shows
that the Japanese population of the
/ United States, exclusive Of those IN the
Philippine and Hawaiian Islands, had
grown from 2,039 in 1890 to 24326 in
the States of California, Washington
! Oregon, Montana and Idaho, where
their disastrous competition in many
callings has inflicted great injury on
| the American workers, especially since
1900, their numbers in these States hav-
ing steadily increased; and
| Whereas, Increased machine produce
ton in Japan is displacing in larger
hand labor in the overcrowded condi-
tion of that country, where 45,OOO,OOO of
people are situated on 1912 square
miles, only IL per cent of which is ara
Bile land, is eager to emigrate and will
ing to work at any wages-in Japan
now wages of laborers being IS cents
per day and mechanics from 20 to 80
cents per day; and
/ Whereas, The japanese only outward
ly, by adopting our dress, conform to
the Western standard of civilization, in
their customs and morals they remain
ing essentially Japanese-that is, men
of a lower standard of morals, of a
lower standard of wages, men of a
race that has never assimilated with
the Caucasians, but which race has al
ways pulled down, Ind pulled down
irresistibly the men of the Caucasian
race that have been forced into con-
tact with men of the Monaghan race;
and, therefore be it
Resolved, by the San Francisco La
Dor Council in regular session assem-
bled, October %, 1903, That we deem it
absolutely necessary for the preserVa-
ton and advancement of American ci-
vilization, and for the preservation and
advancement of the natives of the Phil
ippina and Hawaiian Islands, to whom
the American Government has made
solemn pledges of protection that the
present Chinese Exclusion law be made
to apply to the japanese and Koreans
and other Asiatic Monaghan labor: al
so that the present Chinese Exclusion
law continue in full force in the Phil
ippine and Hawaiian Islands; and fur
Their
Resolved; That the American Fedora
ton of Labor at its annual convention
to be held in November next at Bos-
ton, Mass, is hereby requested to in
struct its legislative committee to have
a bill introduced in Congress embody-
ing the Spirit of those resolutions