The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-08-16
Japs Only
Need Apply!
Gray-haired White Wife Tells Star
Pitiful Story of How the Little
Brown Men Are Keeping Bread
From Mouths of Starving Ameri-
can Families in Seattle


She stately, reserved. and little gray. There
air OF queenness, yet of great capaby, about
her. She smiled warmly at the antics of the office
boy A fine woman. would take her to be. at the
fulness of life, typical great American mother.
COMES TO HOME OF BIG STAR
FAMILY WITH HER TROUBLES
She was a member of the big Star family, which has
10000 fathers and mothers and aunts and unces
and nieces and nephews and other relatives than
other newspaper family in Seattle.
And as such. she came to the home Of that big
family to say what she had to say.
vast number of relatives in that big family are
work It was to these she wished to talk.
I should like to know what we are to do" shs said
We came here to live. Ny husband was a meat cut
ter but he took position with the Electric company
He was gripman first. He got advancement and
when the company sold out to the city he was
THREE WEEKS WORK ONLY
SINCE LAST NOVEMBER
He worked in the steel mills at Youngstown for
five years. Last November, the mills closed. Since
that time he has had three weeks work, odd jobs
spasmodic employment at the mills when they re-
opened for day or two at time, and that sort OF
thing. ~ g.,
steady job. But he found none.
Il in business myself-brokerage. But
] am hardly fitted for office work now, i has been
long since then. / went out and hunted for job
Il went to big department store. l received
polite; No. we have no opening
There are japanese employed in that store.
asked II mightnt be allowed to replace one Of
them. ] am an American citizen. Curt refusal
my
Il went to two big restaurant companies. There
nothing for me there. There, too saw japanese
employees.
Il went to a railroad office. A acquaintance
had told me that women employed to clean Pull
cars. / asked for that kind Of position. 1t
good pay, understood The gentleman told me, with
smile, that they were employing men for those jobs
since the
"'What nationality? asked. Japanese, he said
Il went to the homes of our wealthy people, seeking
housework. No. they didn't want me. In most of
those homes found Japanese servants In one the
lady Of the house has Japanese man servant who
helps her dress herself If such thing is necessary
/ thought, why did she not employ white man. 1t
would be no less absurd.
JAPANESE WORK MORE CHEAPLY;
All, BUT DO THEY?
Nowhere was I able to find place. Japanese, of
course. work cheaplly But, in my travels searching
for job, found this instance:
There out Both ave. who had
wanted her house cleaned quickly for party. She
called in Japanese man, thinking he would do it more
rapidly than an American woman. He finished in
two hours. Next day, she had to get an American
woman to come and go over his work and clean the
he hadn't even touched.
II found some other things, too, unpleasant, but
true because Japanese given preference over Amer
citizens.
IL found at an employment office in the
waiting line. She reached the window and asked for
anything The girl at the window said, Why, you're
dressed too nice. Your clothes are against you. You
stove in her house. Her husband had lost his job
and the furniture company had and cleaned their
home of furniture.
FAMILY IN GEORGETOWN
I'm Georgetown there is family that lived on oat
meal for three months They had nothing else to eat
until the woman got sick and the neghbors came to
their assistance.
an another family, in West Seattle, three
little girls One of the little girls was playing in
the yard. Where your sisters?' she was