The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-06-15
INFLUX Of JAPS WORRY
ALL PEOPLE IN DENVER
Colony of 5000 Japs Have
Entered Capital of Colora-
do in Eighteen Months.
Becoming Serious Menace to
Labor-Work For Less Mo-
ney Than White Labor.

1000 and 5000 Japanese have become
esta blished In Denver within the last
eighteen months, and are croWding
white men out of employment so rapid
ly that the Denver Trades and Labor
assembly has become alarmed. It will
take vigorous action to counteract the
lowering influence already being felt
on wages owing to the brown men.
There are more Japanese in Denver,
compared to the population. than there
were Cinnamon in San Francisco prior
to the big fire. The Japanese popula-
ton is increasing rapidly, and board
ing houses are being established be-
tween Eighteenth and Twenty first
streets on Blake street to accommo-
date new arrivals.
Some Of the factories in Denver are
employing Japanese, as their services
are secured at much lower wage
than white men, and the Denver &
Rio Grande and Colorado & Southern
railways are said to be using Japanese
as helpers and to perform other duties
at their shops in this city. The Den
yer & Rio Grande railway Is said to
have several dozen Japs, and the
Colorado & Southern has about the
same number. The Western Packing
company is also reported to be en-
ploying Japs, and the Great Western
Sugar company Is said to have large
numbers at work.
Japs Take Negroes Job.
One can go into hardly any of the
large office buildings without finding
Japanese acting as porters. They are
driving wagons, and entering into
nearly all lines of work in competi-
ton with white men.
The Denver Trades and Labor as
sembly considers the condition as very
grave. Employers are looking for
cheap labor and are encouraging the
importation Of Japanese Such hordes
are coming that the livelihood Of thou
sands Of Denver citizens is threatened,
and drastic steps will have to be taken
to prevent serious trouble.
The Japanese have taken possession
Of a part Of Chinatown and have
crowded some negroes off Blake street
between Eighteenth and Twentieth
streets. The houses on Black street
are used as boarding houses by Jap
anese.
The houses at 2O2S, 1923 and 2O44
Blake street are also Japanese board
ing houses. At Eighteenth and Mar
ket streets is a Japanese boarding
house, a poOlrCom and a barber shop.
Between Blake and Wazee streets on
Eighteenth street is three-story
building used as Japanese supply
house and employment agency. Men
and materials are furnished to all
parts Of the state
Work on Railroads.
The Japanese have also become es-
tablished at other places between
Eighteenth and Twenty-second streets
and between Market and Wazee
streets. The work of laying the tracks
of the Union Pacific railway on Blake
street is being done almost exclusively
by Japanese.
The Japanese spend the little money
they do part with in their own colony.
The money they take from white men
is spent sparingy in the Japanese
stores and the rest is either put in
the banks or sent to Japan for the
purpose Of bringing their cousins or
other relatives over to this country.
Nearly all the Japanese claim kinship
and are cousins Of some sort.
The encouragement for Japanese to
come to this country was first given
by the railroads. all of which find diff
fculty in securing section men and
men to work in building new lines.
But the Japs are not keeping to COM
mon hard labor but are trying to do
all kinds of work. They have almost
succeeded in supplanting the negroes
as porters, and are rapidly taking the
place of skilled workmen in shops and
factories.