Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-07
DISCOVERS PLOT
TO BRING OVER
ALIEN LABOR
Officials Investigate
Law Evasion
Commissioner Of immigration Exposes
Conspiracy to Admit Alien Labor
ers Through Hawaiian Ports
in Violation of Regulations
BY Associated Press.

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believed to be extensive schemes to Sc
cure foreign labor have been brought to
light and are now being investigated,
according to the annual report of Frank
Sragent, commissioner general of inn
migration.
The evidence is already at hand, the
report says, to show that some indi-
vidual or corporation is engaged in
importing numbers of Japanese labor
ers to work on the railroads of the
northwest
These Japanese come to Hawaii, des-
tined to "hotels" kept by labor agents,
and claim that they are merely seeking
labor that may be secured on the is
lands They are admitted to the islands
and after remaining few days or
weeks there they ship for northwestern
mainland d. orts.
Having been admitted at the Ha-
waiian ports their voyage thence is
'coastwise," and they cannot be ex-
cluded on arrival at the mainland
ports under the alien labor contract or
any other provision of the immigration
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| Japanese immigration direct to San
Francisco from Japan dropped during
the year to very small figures, doubt
less, the report says, from causes sim
liar to those just referred to. The i'm
migration commissioner at San Fran
cisco reports that Japanese have been
arriving there coastwise from Honolulu
and from Canadian ports at the rate of
from 1000 to 5000 per month. The re-
port says:
THAT several laborers have been i'm
ported under this evasion of the law is
not doubted
Accommodation at Ellis island, ac-
cording to the report, are entirely in
adequate for the inspection work.
Difficulty in Exclusion Law
/ The Chinese exclusion law and the
main difficulties attending it's enforce
ment are discussed. The commissioner
recommends stationing officers to in
vestigate and approve certificates is
sued by the Chinese government to the
exempt classes, such a plan to super
sede that of having the investigation
made by the United States consular
officers
Greatly improved conditions resulted
from the presidents orders of last
spring instructing consular officers as
to their duties concerning these certif-
Gates.
Various methods are pointed out in
the report by which the Chinese seek
to enter the country in violation of the
law under the guise of domiciled mer-
chants, etc. Complete and detailed
registration of all Chinese in the United
States is again recommended. Any
Chinese laborer found in the United
States "a year after the registration act
who has not a residence certificate and
is found to be unlawfully here should
the report says, be deported.
The commissioner reports that on
the Mexican border Chinese coolies are
constantly being 3muggled into this
country from Mexico.
! Other plans are designed to prevent
the admission of Chinese minor chill
dren and attaching severe penalties
for permitting Chinese seamen to land.
The commissioner again recommends
increasing the penalties on steamship
companies for bringing aliens afflicted
with dangerous or loathsome diseases.
The presidents suggestion for clos
ing the Mexican border to all aliens eX-
cept citizens of Mexico is also urged.
Revive "White Slave" Traffic
During the early part of the year the
report says the white slave" traffic
was extensively revived. Many of the
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purposes were brought through Mexi-
co and secured a right to citizenship
by marrying Chinese born in this coun-
try.
The fiscal year ending June 80, 1906,
produced a record eclipsing all former
figures on the subject of immigration.
During that period, the report says,
the population of the United States was
increased by the admission of 1,100375
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grant aliens entered at it's ports, MAX
ing the total admission 1,166353. The
increase over last years record of L.
059, 1855 was 1885, ,598.
During the fiscal year 1905 the de-
partment rejected II, 4S0 aliens and dur
ing the past year 12.4S2, of the immi-
grant aliens, that is those who intended
settling in the United States.
Without exception" the report says,
''the countries from which we formerly
obtained the greater part of our for
eign population and which are in
habited by the races nearly akin to our
own, have supplied us with smaller
numbers during the past year than
during 1905. Ireland, 1850; England,
1928; Sweden, 1921; Germany. 3O1O;
Denmark, 1929; Scotland. iii less. On
the other hand the four most con-
siderable gains are:
Italy, 51,461 Russia, 30,76S; Greece,
1914; Turkey, 5165.
1.-The immigration from Austro-H Hun
gary amounted to 265. 1873; Italy. in
Guiding Sicily and Sardinia. 273,12O;
Russia and Finland. 215.665; China,
155; Japan. 1885; West Indies, 1855.
The immigration from southern and
eastern Europe, the commissioner
says, is result of general unrest ex-
listing among the laboring class The
commissioner says that drastic meas
ures are required to effect discontinu-
ance OF the steamship practices.
That the physician and mental quail
ties of the aliens we are now receiving
is much below that of those who have
come i'm former years. he says, is evil
dent
The north Atlantic and north central
states. together received 80 per cent of
the entire immigration Of 1906, the
south per cent.