The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-02-18
PETITION IS
ON ITS WAY
All American League Of
Mukilteo Sends Big Pro-
test to Lumber Co.

IHe people oil Mukllte0 are not aDat-
ing their efforts one bit to get rid of
the Japs. They are sending this week
certified copy of the signatures obtained
to their petition to the president of the
Crown Lumber Co., Mr.. James Tyson,
of Alameda, California; also to the diff
ferent directors of the company. All
the pressure that they can bring to
bear on the lumber company will be
used in an effort to convince the COM
pany that white labor should be en-
ployed. The ladies who started the
present agitation say they will never
quit until the last Jap has disappeared
from the NIukiteo mill and if the petit
tion do not do the business they'll
try another tack. Following is the let
ter of protest that will accompany the
petition to the directors of the Crown
Lumber Co.:
AIukilteo, Wash, Feb. 9th, 1909.
Crown Lumber Co., Mukiteo, Snohomish
County, Washington.
Dear Sirs:-Our purpose herein is not
to dictate to you as to how you shall
conduct your business and lumber. mill
at Nlukilteo, but to convince you, if
possible, that the Japanese employed in
your said mill are a menace to the COM
munity, and that you can employ in the
places of these Japs, good, competent
and reliable citizens of our country, in
fact that you can employ those Ameri-
can citizens without loss; not only to
yourselves, but to the advantage of the
citizens of Mukilteo, as well.
Indeed, you will gain the respect and
gratitude of the citizens of N1ukilteo
by employing only American citizens,
you will have them for your friends,
working with you and your interests.
In the first place you surely must
admit that our interests as citizens are
mutual, such being the case we will
first endeavor to prove that the Jap
is menace to our country
. lst. The Japs at NIukilteo pay no
taxes.
2nd. They have no family ties-a tie
that always elevates citizenship.
3rd. The money you pay them is not
spent for American products, only
and only so far as absolutely
44th. They have done nothing to i'm
prove Mullilteo either financially or
5th. Not one substantial building
have they erected here in all the time
they have been in our midst, and the
thousands of dollars you have paid them
so far as we know and understand, they
have sent across the ocean to their
country to whom they owe allegiance
9th. Since the Jap-Russian war, the
Japanese government has been sending
spies to other countries, notably our
beloved country whose purpose is to get
the plans of our Pacific Notifications,
which would be of great value to the
japanese government in the event of a
war between us. By employing these
Japs you may unwittingly employ such
spies.
7th. In California, the manufacturers
and business men have learned by bit
ter experience the necessity of not Civ
ing employment to the Japs-and men,
notable men like you, in business like
you, have been compelled for their own
protection to take measures TO rid the
country of the Jap menace.
Now can you, in justice to yourselves,
to your country, continue employment
of japanese labor?
As before said, the Japanese in AIuk-
ilteo pay no taxes-but one or two have
families-and there are approximately
us of them. They do not build houses,
nor do they do anything to build up the
community
We, the "All-American League, citi-
zens of Mukilteo, agree that if you will
dispense with Japanese labor in your
mill here, that we will furnish you,
free of cost, l75 good, honest, sober
and competent white American citizens
to work in their places. That the work
performed by thsse American citizens,
will cost you no more than that of the
Japs. We mean, not per man or in
dividual, but the results in quality and
quantity.
This means to you, to us;
One hundred and seventy five more
homes in Mukilteo; IFS loyal citizens,
instead of l75 persons not citizens
among whom may be spies against the
interests of our country. 1t means lower
taxes for you and for u.s. 1t means
that our interest win have become
mutual, that we can go hand in hand;
that we will promote your success, and
that vou can promote ours.
Hoping that these few words will not
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