The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-07
lGIFlC COAST
Faces new PERIL
Hindus by Thousands Are Pouring
Into United States Because Rail
roads Want Cheap Labor.

San FRANCISCO, June o.-iheIe
are nearly 10000 Hindus in Califor
MIA.
Hundreds OF them are scattered
over the rest OF the coast from the
Canadian line TO the Mexican border
Every steamer from the Orient
brings I'm three score or more OF
these turbaned residents OF India
and Il is estimated that they are ar
irving at the rate OF 100 week.
And the wholesale migration or the
Hindus has brought the people OF the
coast face 10 face with problem
which promises to be far greater than
that ever offered by the coming OF the
\ japanese, against which there was so
much agitation two years ago.
Back OF the trouble are the rail-
roads.
The Canadian Pacific started the
evil through its desire for cheap labor,
and In an EFFORT TO earn large diyf
dends for its steamship lines. The
Hindus came TO Canada first. where
the rigorous climate forced them into
4 washington and Oregon. In these
states white laborers revolted against
their places being taken by the brown
man, and riots followed. The Hindus
4 were driven from Seattle, Danville,
\ Bellingham, Portland and other cities
4 OF the northwest. into California.
League Declares War.
Then they began pouring into the
q port OF San Francisco. AS a result OF
4 this influx. the local exclusion league
\ declared war on Hart II. North. immi-
z grafton commissioner for San Fran
/ cisco, and he was called to Washing
4 ton 70 answer questions. The trouble
\ came to q head when. at q meeting OF
I the Board OF Inspectors, who were to
L PASS on a number OF Hindus, as TO
/, whether they were at to land or not
A North made the following statement
to the board:
I'm the ONCE this morning was
Y interviewed by a railroad contractor
\ from the California Northwestern Elk
4 tension. He stated that he had rs
4 Hindus working for him, and wanted
i q pass for more; gave him a pass.
4 He said he had use for all the
! Htndus he could get; that he found
them not unsatisfactory laborers; that
4 they could not do as well as white
llnborers. but that they kept at II and
I did pretty WELL
Il later developed that the railroad
(, agent, North referred to was one Bos-
well and that he represented B. L.
4 yermani and Bal Mokund, both Hindu
labor contractors.
The railroads again
And the peculiar feature of the case
was that an agent Of an employment
concern was given the right to APP
pear for aliens In whom he could have
no interest other than to obtain cheap
labor for railroads.
There Is nothing imaginary in the
declaration that the Hindu peril is
real one. Bands of from a score to
two score consumptive, emaciated
Htndus, their heads covered by dirty
yellow, red, white and black turbans.
can be seen every day on the streets
Of the coast cities. In the railroad
cainrs and the vineyards, in mills and
foundries, these people OF India are
RAPIDLY driving out white labor, be
cause they work cheaper.
a white man cannot live for what
Hindu can live on. The latter's pay
averages $1.65 day. Out OF this ne
loupports himself and saves over 81
\ day to send back to India. This has
{, been proved In hundreds OF cases Re-
4 Gently attention was called to the fact
that the gangs OF Hindus employed by
4 the railroads In the northern part OF
tCaltfornia and by the Diamond Match
Co., were buying money orders at the
rate Il $1,000 day. The men who
ser6 this amount are paid higher than
the others, - q day.
A glimpse az the Future.
-1It A. a.. "a
in their competition with white men
i ~ the fact that sooner or later these
men will be unable to work, except
Tor the railroads. and when this time
\ does come the railroads will have a
8 veritable army OF Hindus whom they
\ can hold In q state Of AFFECT peonage.
y Not being able to work for others they
3 must necessarily work for the trans
portation companies, or else become
= public charges.
The Hindus are the most undesir-
able Of Asiatic immigrants, They do
Y not know the FIRST principles Of SAM
q tatfon. as q case which came up re-
3 Gently In Vancouver proves. In a
house. which by rights was large
enough for but six persons, 20 Hindus
found place to sleep and live. The
tH xxku0u Cdnuot peCOLue n Citfxeus pc-
cause he has not the making of one.
This Is one Of the great problems
the people of the coast must solve The
y railroads have q lot to answer for on
n the Pacific border. but nothing great
Or than that OF the importation of
cheap and ignorant foreign labor.
First they brought the Mexican peon
3 to California. then the Chinese. then
e the Jap and now the worst Of all
z the Hindu.
There Is no way to stop these peo-
pie from coming In unless congress
takes cognizance OF the evil. The coast
II beginning to realize this and the
3 people are now formulating plans to
A stop the peril by appealing to their
4 nenators and representatives In con
Gress to enact laws for the suppress
sion of Hindu immigration.
VENDORS UNDER FIRE.
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