The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-03-30
JAPANESE
NOT WANTED

''Thc big railway contracting nrns
whu afr building the Western racioc
railway from Ean Francis'p 10 Dau.H
have thrown out all their Japanese
lahorcrr. aud are getting men from
Italy and Germany to do the con-
struction work on the line" said G.
s. McGrail. young san Fran
cisco business man who passed
through Honolulu on the Korea yes.
terday. Mr. McGrail II en- route 60
Shanghai. where he goes to take
charge OF the Oriental business OF the
big merchandising house OF Gctz
Brothers, aud has until lately been
connected with Armour 4 co. In San
Francisco.
"The contractors found that they
could not rely upon the japanese la
borers." continued MIR McGrail. They
would not work, and could not b. de-
pended upon to stay with the job when
they would get at It, The Wes,crn
Pacific. which as you know is the
western extension of the Gould lines,
is contracted to be finished on the
first OF January. 1907. and the con-
tractors could not AFFORD to monkey
had to have men who would work. and
who would stay with the work, and
they have gone to the eastern states
and to Europe for them.
california is fulf of these men now.
and they are all as busy as they can
be. They are strung along the whole
line OF the road. and II will probably
be finished I'm contract time-all but
the San Francisco terminals. There
is "A fight with the Southern Pacific
about those. which may require some
time for its settlement.
san Francisco Is full of idle Jap
anese There are thousands OF them
there-and none of them very willing
! To work. They prefer to hang around
| the city and To stay IN the offices OF
the employment agents, playing their
checker games. They are not even de-
pendable as house servants. Why, at
my house we have a record of seven
japanese servants coming and going
in one week. A man does not like
such lightning change work as that In
his domestic menage."
The San Francisco Chronicle OF
March is prints this: THE executive
board of the japanese and Korean
Exclusion League at the meeting held
last evening, received "a communica-
tion from state Labor Commissioners
w. V. Stafford stating that a con-
tractor engaged in constructing part
of the Western Pacific Railroad In
Butte county, found the Japanese la
borers unsatisfactory and was Obliged
TO discharge 700 of the Mongolians and
replace them with white laborers.
"P. ii. Mccarthy reported that he
had addressed large assemblies during
his recent visit In the East In seven
cities on the Mongolian immigration
question and found that the trades
unionists are only fairly well Informed
on the question, while others are in
different or apathetic, and he urged
the league to carry its educational
work into the industrial centers of the
East and the Middle West, and To
have speakers address large conven-
tions. Walter Macarthur suggested
that mass meetings be held In this
city next July during the convention
of the National Educational Associa-
tion. and enlighten the teachers of the
whole United States upon the impor-
tance of excluding Mongolian labor
from this country Arrangements are
In progress for a monster mass meet
ing to be held on Sunday. May 8, In
honor of the first anniversary of the
league"