The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-11-06
JAPANESE EDG|NG N
THROUGHOUT COUNTRY
HAVE WE'LL ORGANIZED INDUS
TRIAL CORPORATION WORK.
ING ON RAILROADS.

RENO. Nov. 5.-Over 1900 Jap
anese are now employed as section
hands ON the various branches of the
southern Pacific system and the Ore
gon Short Line between Sparks and
Ogden. These Japanese 1aborers re-
ceive, according to the manager of
the Sparks branch of the Japanese
American Industrial corporation,
through which they are employed,
$160 a day, which is paid to the cor
through the Industrial corporation,
says the State Journal.
Owing to the scarcity of white men
who can be employed in bulk, so to
call it. the effect has been to en-
able the industrial corporation to
organize a real labor trust. This
trust, controlled by Abeko, a crafty
oriental. was found to exist when an
investigation brought frank answers
to questions relative to their pres
ence in this state.
II. Sugawara, who conducts the Of
flee of the corporation in Sparks, stat
ed, when asked, that the labor trust
get 81 month from every man hired
to the Hartman system. So long as
the s. is paid, Sugawara said, the
japanese can continue working;
otherwise he quits. The Japanese
American Industrial corporation was
formed in San Francisco, and it inn
mediately became a competitor of the
greatest employment agencies. Pres
ident Abeko headed the concern. He
soon was given a chance to supply
the Hartman lines with hundreds of
track workmen. So prosperous has
the corporation become, branch of
fees are now maintained in Sparks,
Nevada: Ogden, Utah: Sugar City,
Idaho; Idaho Falls, Idaho. and Rock
Springs. Colo. An attempt was made
yesterday to ascertain if these
branches co-operated TO evade the
contract labor law. A representa-
tive of the Journal was told by Local
Manager Sugawara that the japanese
are gathered up from all parts of the
Pacific coast.
I'VE are working well within the
law" said Sugawara, land we do not
have to break any federal statutes to
fulfill our purpose. A general air
of optimism was maintained by Mr..
Sugawara. He was asked whether
the characterization Industrial
corporation had established head
quarters in Sacramento Soon,
perhaps. Not yet; not yet" he re-
piled. Then he hurried on to assure
the reporter that work in the beet
fields in Idaho taxed the capacity of
the agency, adding, when questioned.
thu Up were given work there
Sugawara see5InfItsc 'awell educated.
He explained with great suavity how /
the Japanese had come to be the |
greatest factor in mental labor on the !
coast. He said the Western Pacific |
was not yet included in the opera |
tons of the labor distributing agen- |
~, but he seemed hopeful of acquir-
ing that privilege, too.
We collect 81 a month from ev-
cry man we send to fill positions, .
continued Sugawara. THE Japanese !
frequently quit to accept something
better. But on the whole the Japan
use are steadier than the other races.
There are 1900 japanese on the Salt /
Lake division of the Hartman sys-
iem. H. Sennow. who is in charge of |
The Ogden office, looks after the in !
terests of the men, But our crew in |
lhlS Stdtt uoSS IOl represent Wndi
can be done with Japanese labor A |
syndicate of wealthy Japanese has |
purchased 1900 acres of fertile |
farming land at Livingston, near
Stockton, Cal, and there the Asiatics |
who are married are given training
in American farming methods When |
a married japanese graduates from
this agriculture school he is given an
with the wages he has
saved to purchase ranch in the
Santa Clara valley, or some other
favorably situated part of California.
The married Japanese as a rule
does not take place as a section
hand. He prefers to work at some
thing where advancement is certain
and permanent All of these jap
anese, as far as l know, are admitted
to the United States under the i'm
treaty"
Inquiry at the railroad Offices con-
firmed the statements made by Mr..
although none of the Of
ficials in Sparks could say exactly
the number of Japanese who are now
drawing wages from the system.