The San Francisco call., 1910-04-24
ALLOW LATEST
ARRIVALS FROM
india TO Land
Five Castles on Ocean Liner
Have Difficult Time Cooking
Five Kinds of Food
dindutOwns Begin to Spring Up
in Order to Accommodate
UnskiIIed LabOrers

such Of the Hindus who arrived on
the Chiyo Maru as passed the medical
inspection Of the immigration surgeon
We're landed yesterday and taken to
one Of the 'TIindutowns" that have
sprung up lately in several of the
suburbs In a few days they viii be
at work with some railroad gang,
and a little later viii be writing let
ters back 10 the Punjab telling glow
ing stories of the land where every
body eats regularly and where money
is plentiful and easy to earn
Although the Hindus, of whom there
are now more than 10000 in Califor-
Ma have overcome the superstition
that until a few years ago held them
In their own land. they have brought
with them all the caste prejudices that
are part of their religious and social
life. They neither learn the language
nor change their mode of life TO con-
form with the new conditions, and
withal regard themselves not as bene-
hciaries Of Americas hospitable laws,
but as the subjects of a favored nation
here by treaty guarded right
TREATY RIGHTS
In the Punjab, il is said, they are
carefully instructed in the terms of all
treaty conditions between Great Brit
ain and the United States regarding
immigration. They are British sub
Jects and members of the Caucasian
race, and many of them are almost
defiant in their attitude when il is
suggested that perhaps this govern
ment might take steps TO limit or
stop altogether the flood from the
PUnjab.
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tralia shuts them out and little New
Zealand will have none of them. When
Lord Kitchener arrived in New Zealand
he was accompanied by a Hindu body
servant who had been his attendant
for years. The authorities OF the COM
monwealth told the distinguished war
rior to send his black servant back
10 India and hire a white man. Lord
Kitchener complied.
On a recent trip across the Pacific
China liner brought East Indians of
FIVE different castes. That meant FIVE
different messes of food prepared in
i've different ways three times day.
The men Of one caste did not want to
use the galley at the same time any of
the other ca stes were using il, but the
galley accommodations would not ad-
nit Of this exclusive arrangement, as
there were other steerage passengers
to be cared for The Hindus comprom-
ised by erecting sheet iron partitions
on the stove, and in this way protected
the -four cakes of one caste from the
communicating steam OF the other
castles food.
LAZY INDIVIDUALS
The testimony Of the steerage stew
ards who care for these dusky passen-
gers on shipboard is that their per-
sonaI habits are filthy. Men who have
employed them say they are dirty, lazy
and shiftless and altogether lacking in
initiative.
People from India who know these
men as they are in their own land ex-
press surprise that employers even of
cheap and unskilled labor are able to
get enough out of them TO make their
employment worth while. Experience
has shown that they will only work
in q warm climate, and those who know
them say that when the supply exceeds
the demand, and their capacity is very
limited, the surplus will become a
charge on charity.
In support Of the Asiatic exclusion
leagues contention that big influences
were behind the landing of the Hindus
here, Secretary A. Z. Yoeu said yes
terday:
TO prove what we say it is only
necessary to refer to the statements of
one Of their learned pundits, Dr. n.
OF his addresses he has frankly made
the following statement:
While 1 was in the west, and a
guest for a short time at Stockton, CAL
Of the last convention of the Califor-
MIA state federation OF labor. 1 met a
banker, who begged me to supply him
with about 1000 Hindu Workingmen
who would work for $3.50 or $I.75 per
day at the start. I therefore asked the
reason why he did not employ American
workingmen- He told me that he did
not wish to employ American working
men as they wanted from $3.50 to "a
per day. In Seattle 1 personally visited
more than eight japanese labor agen-
cies. In Portland 1 met q Japanese
gentleman who is supposed to be the
richest japanese in America, and in
California I talked with more than 80
Of the leading Japanese merchants and
labor importers, and found that they
are begged by the American capitalists
and offered a good commission-to
get as many people as they can, not
only from Japan, but from China and
India also.