The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-09-30
LABOR OUTBREAKS
ESSENTIALLY LOCAL =
JAPANESE PRESS TAKES MUCH
QUIETER VIEW OF THE VAN
COUVER RIOTING.

gonism to creap labor--iu This case
cheap Japanese labor-is not am Ameri-
can monopoly. but is a purely economic
cosmopolitan condition Yet great
regret viii De felt by am Englishmeu
that their countrymen of British Co
lumbia should have ros0rted to Vio-
lence against the countrymen of their
fuller details of the affair we are inc
debted TO our Tokyo Correspondent
who informs us that a San Francisco
telegram TO the Asahi says that % mass
meeting in Vancouver. ON the night OF
! the 9Th inst of The Korean
Exclusion League was followed by d
huge demUnstratiye procession Sub
/ sequently. a mob numbering several
thousands, attacked the Japanese and
Chinese quarters and caused damage
! estimated as exceeding YlO0O00. The
indignant japanese. armed with clubs.
knives, etc. resisted the rioters kiiuug
four and injuring several of them on
the other hand the rioters attacked the
Japanese working ON the pier and
threw ten of them into the water. and
they were only rescued with dimculty
The rioters crying white Canada. at
tempted to set fire TO the Japanese
quarter but were prevented by the
iremen. On the Sth inst, the rioters
also attacked over 500 Japanese immi-
grants, just landing, and threw seven
or eight of them into the sea, with
what result is unknown On the night
Of the Sth inst the rioting was re-
newed Four thousand rioters attack
ed the Japanese quarter. but the po-
lice arrested over twenty and repulsed
the rest
The Times i'm a message to New
York, transmitted to the Asahi, says
that the anti-Japanese movement on
the Pacific coast was instigated ny
Irish labor leaders and assisted by
Scandinavians
That Director Ishii. of the CONNER
cial Bureau in the Tokyo Foreign Of
flee happened to be I'm Vancouver on
the occasion of the labor outbreak VIII
in no small degree expedite the settle
ment of the difficulty Mr. Ishii with
Consul Hisamizl from Seattle, on their
way to the japanese Consulate in Van
couver, are said to have been once
surrounded by the mob and to have
| had a narrow escape
Sir Wilfred Laurier, the Dominion
Premier, deeply regretting the indig-
mites and cruelties inflicted upon the
subjects of a friendly nation and ally
of the king hopes that the offenders
! will be promptly punished
An Ottawa telegram via London says
that the papers there unanimously con-
! denim the labor riot in Vancouver. The
London papers generally comment on
the seriousness of the situation and
hope that Japan will be patient and
! dignified at this juncture
Of this mornings Toyko papers the
Asahi alone editorially comments upon
the Vancouver incident 1t first ex-
presses regret at the present disgrace
full conditions in a great colony of
Japan's ally, and proceeds to urge that
the immigration question centers a
round treaty revision in 1911. The
Asahi hopes that the government and
the people at home and abroad will
be duly prepared therefor On the
part of the Japanese people abroad il
is desirable that they maintain a
civilized standard and stultify all caus-
es of adverse criticism. The Asahi also
states in its news columns that Japan's
attitude in this question is to be fixed
upon the receipt of further authentic
: details
In his usual Tokyo Letter" column
the editor Of the Kokumin makes q
passing reference to the Vancouver
riot. He says that all international
difficulties should be settled in bust
ness-like manner, prestige be restored
and damage be compensated. but moth
ing more. The rioters attack upon the
Japanese in Vancouver was, of course
not in the cognizance of the Canadian
/ Government nor representative Of thu
plAhClphl beCllOu VI the people lltIb
While regretting the incident. the We
. teran editor cannot but believe thai
3 the worth of the Canadian Premier
as a world statesman will be amply
3 indicated on this occasion and pro
: per measures be promptly taken.
We Japan Gazette) while appreciat
} ing the moderation of the japanese
3 press as to these regrettable occur
a rences must nevertheless deprecate an!
tendency to look upon them as inter
, national in character. These labor out
8 breaks are essentially local and socia
and should be controlled by the loca
police. Now that the Vancouver author
tiles are aroused to the danger like
a ly to result from the socialistic worl
4 of anti-Japanese agitators, there is lit
I tie doubt but that the weapons of Law
: and order in British territory will b.
Q REINFORCED so as satisfactorily to COP
$ with any similar outbreaks I'm future