The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-02-22
CHEAP ''| p FORE|GN LABOR
. EFFECT upon SOCIETY:
Would Place Common People OF
America on Par With Serfs
Of Europe Z
And Also Invade the Ranks of
the Business and Profess
.. sional Men.


Angeles,-a city that has recently re-
ceived very unsavory reputation as
a cheap labor center The conditions
there are commended to the consider
alton Of all those who favor the open
shop and the importa ton of cheap for
eigr labor.
Fruits Of Jap Labor.
Thousands of white men in idleness
at Los Angeles while every Japanese
is working is the gloomy report that
comes from Los Angeles, which is get
ting an unsavory reputation as a cheap
labor center. During the past year
thousands of Japanese have come to
Los Angeles. Enough have now
reached the southern metropolis to
make their presence felt and the re-
suit is the same as in other places in
California and the Hawaiian islands,
where the Japs have practically taken
possession Of the country.
Plans Of tho Invader.
Wherever the Japs go in large
enough numbers they first take up the
most mental kinds of labor. 1t is
easiest to break into a community by
taking up the forms of work that are
generally considered disagreeable and
undesirable. Hence that is where the
Japs generally start but they do not
stop there. It is not long before they
spread to other forms of labor and by
underselling white labor the Jap al
most Invariably manages to strike a
bargain with the open shop employer,
who is SO intent on securing cheap
labor, regardless of other consider
atoms, that he readily bites on the
bait offered my by the Oriental in
<vader.
Enters Business Pursuits.
The jap, however, does not stop
there, If ne did American labor could
politely get off the face of the earth
to make room for the Monaghan and
throughout this land there would de-
velop a society Of white aristocrats
ruling over and waxing fat on tho
fruits of Asiatic wage slaves. But the
Jap has no idea of allowing anything
: of the kind to happen. He does not
stop with being a wage Garner, who
for a pittance does work for others.
He branches off into business and pro-
;fessional work. He undersells the
white business man and gets all the
trade of his own countrymen and a
considerable portion of the white peo-
PIES trade. Business gets poorer and
poorer for the white professional and
business men and a. lot Of them have
to get out, entirely and leave the field
to the Japanese: Let this process con-
+ tinue and but one outcome can result
and that is that the Japnese will own
| the sections thus invaded Wherever
7 they get foothold American irstitu-
tons and ideals will suffer and in time
be displaced by those of the Japanese.
-. Banks and Newspapers.
| Already Los Angeles has several
| Japanese banks and daily Japanese
| newspapers. Already some of those,
who are responsible for the presence
reap the fruits of their own folly,
while many others, who are innocent
also suffer. The presence of thou
| sands Of idle workingmen on the
streets of Los Angeles, whose places
have been filled by Japs, should set
a few of the people of that city to
thinking. and acting for their own self
preservation before it is too late.
Entire Country Threatened.
| It is not Los Angeles alone that is
threatened by the danger Of an ORR
entail immigration but the entire Pa.
| cif1c coast and more remotely the en-
tire country. Unless prompt action is
taken in the direction Of effecting the
exclusion of all Asiatics at least as
effectually as the Chinese are now ex.
cluded we will have troublesome times
ahead of us. The longer we dilly daily
doing nothing on this question the
more. difficult it will be to solve it
At the present time it is compare.
lively easy matter to dispose of it by
the passage, without further delay, o.
exclusion laws and vigorously enforc.
ing them. Why be 50 shortsighted a!
to wait until the problem becomes ont
that will tax the resources of tn,
nation to solve. Our forefathers mad,
a foolish blunder wnen they allowed
the negro problem to take root in thi
country and the poor south is reapinl
the fruit of that mistake Are W.
going to be so short sighted as to- al
low far worse problem to be chaine,
to the west. It will not suffice t.
howl against it. We will have to re
busy and let congress know that tn
entire west demands the passage Of =,
rigid exclusion law and not let u,
until it is passed.
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