The San Francisco call., 1910-06-20
EXCLUSION LEAGUE
Defines ITS STAND
Meeting Adopts Report Of Com=
mittee On Admission of
Asiatic Laborers
Support Given to Policy of a
Larger Standing Army to
Defend Coast

State Labor Commissioner John d.
Mackenzie was bitterly scored by labor
speakers at the meeting of the Asiatic
Exclusion league in Labor temple yes
terday afternoon for his report favor
ing the immigration of Japanese labor
ers. immigration Commissioner Hart
North came in for his share of execra-
tion also for his attitude toward Hindu
immigrants
The purpose of the meeting was
known, and long before the session
opened feeling was high against the
commissioners. Secretary A. E. Yoel
read and the meeting adopted the re-
port of the committee on the Mackenzie
report in which that document was
branded as misleading, untrue, preju-
dicial and drawn up for political pur-
poses. Mackenzie was charged with
having employed japanese enumerators
to gather his data The committee re-
ported that the information sought by
Mackenzie was being compiled by
means of circular letters sent out from
league headquarters to farmers and
employers of labor
ATTACK ON MACKENZIE
Returns thus far received, it was
stated, contained emphatic denials of
what the Mackenzie report purported
to show. 1t was said that farmers were
not satisfied with Japanese as laborers
because they were intractable and Urn
reliable. In its report the committee
said:
The white man is not considered in
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father, unit of the republic, but as
a slave,fa servant. literally as a beast
of burden, and all comparisons are for
the purpose to show that the cody is
a better beast than he is,
North was criticised for saying ac-
cording to press interviews that he did
not know of immigration practices in
other ports and that he would not ex-
clude Hindus because there was no
provision for such action.
Reports We're read showing that Hin
duS were excluded in other American
ports and that a few days ago a large
number were turned from Seattle. 1t
was charged that during the last year
the number of Chinese landed was five
times the average of the previous 25
years.
APPEAL MADE TO NORTH
The action of the Washington au-
thorities in reversing North's decision
and refusing admittance TO so Hindus
a short time ago was quoted as estab-
fishing precedent under which North
could act if he SO desired The COM
mittee asked that North should settle
all doubts in favor of white men.
One of the features of the meeting
was the Endorsement by the executive
committee of the resolution submitted
to congress by Representative Me-
Lachlan calling on the secretary of wa +
to render an immediate report on the
preparedness for war of the United
States. Attention was called to the
standing army and militia and the
condition of the Pacific coast defenses.
Never before in the history of labor or
ganizations of the state has an in
crease of the standing army and the
states militia been favored
LARGER ARMY ADVOCATED
The speakers construed the immigra :
tion of orientals as a tangible peril
The league pledged itself to the policy
of a larger standing army and to the
better equipment of Pacific coast mill
tary points.
Dominick Beban republican and
union labor candidate for re-e election
to the legislature from the twenty
fourth district, Nathan c. Coghlan,
republican and union labor forty
first district, George NJ Perrine.
republican and union labor, forty
fourth district. and Milton L. Schmitt,
republican, fortieth district, were
charged with having forgotten cam
paign pledges and the league decided
to oppose their reelection