The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-02-01
Alameda
Japanese
All Landed
THE THHTy-sEvEN FOUND Dis
QUALIFIED WERE LANDED ON
pEBEMpTOBY ORDERS.

pEBEMpTDEY ORDERS.
The Chronicle of january g. has
somewhat b.Iigosc news article on its
first page u which 90 is charged that
the United States government is vio-
laung its own immigration laws and
is permitting japanese contract labor
crs TO land
on the japanese arriving in San
Francisco by The Alameda it says:
The officials of The Immigration Bu-
roau were astouished on Monday when
orders were issued TO examine all the
japanese coolies ON board The Alameda
A rigorous examination was made of
each Individual. with the result that
thirty-sevcn were found disqualified
and were refused admission under the
contract labor law Yesterday orders
were telographed from the authorities
at Washington to- permit all these COM
tract laborers to land and the orders
were obeyed.
other parts of the article are as fol-
lows:
SAN FRANCISCO January 24-That
the United States Government is, i'm
defiance Of the existing immigration
laws, allowing japanese coolies to-
swarm into California was the astound-
ing result Of an Investigation into the
landing of ABS japanese contract labor
ers from the Korea yesterday. These
coolies were subjected to an eXamina-
ton; ten admitted that they were COM
ing here under contract to labor and
1872 admitted that they were coming
here under contract TO work on a new
railroad The result Of this examina-
tion were telephoned to the Commits
sioner Of immigration, Hart II. North,
who gave orders to permit all these
contract coolies to land in San Fran
cisco.
After what occurred yesterday at the
Pacific Mail dock it is not surprising
that California has found itself in
vaded by a horde Of japanese laborers
1t is evident that even the existing
Federal immigration laws have not
been enforced; that the examination
Of the immigrants by the United states
inspectors approaches a travesty, and
that even when the inspectors do find
that japanese are seeking to enter the
country i'm violation of the contract
labor laws, the authorities at Washing
ton sweep aside the statutes with an
arbitrary departmental order and open
the gate wide to the Japanese coOlie.
COME WITH PASSPORTS.
It is also an astounding fact that
every one Of these coolie immigrants
came provided with a passport from
a. Ia .
their importation into this country is
under the auspices and direction Of
that semi-oficial organization the jap
anese Association of America. 1t was
the Secretary of the japanese Associa-
ton, Gokuho Ikeda, that welcomed the
coolies on the arrival and directed their
reception. 1t was an agent of the Jap
anese Association who distributed
money among the coolies on board the
ship, which enabled them to pay their
landing fees. Each coolie had a steer
age steamer ticket provided by the
japanese contractors, the largest be-
ing the Nishi Oku Kaisha, which was
delivered to an agent of the Pacific
Mail Company as he landed, and at
the same time 81 was handed to an
agent of a Japanese company, which
had contracted to handle the baggage
of the immigrants. Outside on the
docks were the runners for the board
ing houses and the contractors agents,
and as the coolies landed they were
quickly taken in charge.
ADMIT BEING CONTRACT LABOR
ERS.
So ignorant were most of these Jap
anese laborers that they made no at
tempt to deny they were coming here
under contract to work for various
Japanese contractors. Inspector Grif-
fiths of the immigration Bureau, with
the American interpreter Of the local
immigration office, boarded the Korea
shortly after she entered the harbor.
1t was ascertained that 43S japanese
coolies were in the steerage ten of
whom were suffering from trachoma.
Each one of these coolies was eX-
amined individually in the smoking
room, with the result that ten openly
admitted they ere coming here un-
der contract to labor, and 1862 admitted
! that they were coming here to work
for the railroad. All of the coolies
claimed that they had gone to Ho-
nolulu to work there under a three
year contract, on the sugar planta-
lions, but that they preferred to come
on to the United States.
Not one Of this gang of coolies had
remained in Honolulu more than one
month, and one one Of them had done
any work in the Hawaiian islands.
They all admitted that their sole
| purpose in going to Honolulu was to
gain admission to California, and that
they had come here with the promise
of work. Most of these coolies left
Japan during the month Of December,
remaining in Honolulm only a week
Few of the coolies had their wives
with them. They were surprised when
informed that there was likely to be
some difficulty about their landing, and
said that they had been Informed that
japanese could enter the United States
as they pleased.
Japan never dumped upon these
shores a more Objectionable crowd OF
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