The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-08-02
SUFFERING
AMONG JAPS
Kumeric Passengers in
TroubIe---SicknesS
and Death.

The Japanese who sought the greener
pastures of Canada, after all their
struggle to get a passage on the Ku-
meric, are having hard time of it.
They have been, for the most part, un-
able to obtain EN- ployment as yet, eight
hundred of them are living on the
bounty of their fellow countrymen on
the Fraser river and sickness has bro
ken out among them. In addition to
their own troubles the arrival of so
many of them at once has broken the
wage market for the other japanese on
the Canadian Coast and brought from
two of the strong Japanese associations
there lengthy cabled requests to Consul
General Saito to head off any further
emigrants and warn the japanese of
Hawaii that there is no use in their
going to Canada.
Two messages were received at the
japanese consulate yesterday and given
out. accompanied by a statement from
the Consul General, to the local Japan
ese press. The statement of Consul
Saito was as follows:
THE emigration of japanese from
here to Canada is detrimental to our
own interests and may result in bring
ing about an agitation against the Jap
anese on the part of the labor unions
of Vancouver. We have repeatedly
given advice to this effect. Cablegrams
from Vancouver are now at hand,
showing that our ffshermen's associa-
tion and hotel-keepers' association
there, having seen the trouble of the
Kumeric immigrants, are warning pros
pective immigrants not to come. Judg-
ing from these cables we see that the
newcomers are making much trouble
for the resident japanese in British
Columbia, much TO our regret.
The text of the cablegram from the
japanese Fishermen's association,
which is dated from the Fraser river.
is as follows;
much trouble is caused by the COM
ing of Hawaiian Japanese in such large
numbers at once. Not enough hotel ac-
commodation at Vancouver to lodge |
them and about eight hundred were
sent. here to Fraser river, where the
Japanese fishermen are sheltering as
many as possible and many are pre-
vented from going to work on this ac-
count and are thereby losing. Some of /
the newcomers have been taken down |
with beri-beri and the sick number
thirty-seven. There has been one death
and two of the cases are serious. There
is not proper accommodation here for
those sick and there is suffering in con-
The demand for labor is linn
tied and the majority of the Kumeric
Iaborers have not yet secured work
Wages are being depressed in conse-
ouence of the big influx of laborers. to
the disadvantage of the resident Japan
ese. We hope you will exert your ut
most efforts to prevent the further emil
grafton of Hawaiian Japanese"
Not less emphatic was the message
from the Japanese hotel-keepers OF
Vancouver. their cablegram arriving on
the heels of the one from the Fraser.
It read:
.sThe suffering of the Kumeric Japan
ase and also of the resident japanese as
|, result of the coming of so many Ia ,
oorers is great. Furthermore we hear {
hat eight hundred more labOrers are
,reparing to come on the Indiana. Con- {
idering that the fishing season is all I
most. over and that there is no need for \
nore Iaborers here. we hope you Will I
top the Japanese from coming on the '
-sdiana. We ask that you give notice f
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