Imigrants in industries (in twenty-five parts)U.S. Government Printing Office, 1911 - Emigration and immigration |
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... families were reported as being agricultural in their interests . A large number of men have found employment in factories , where they con- stitute an increasing percentage of the increasing number employed , and in other ...
... families were reported as being agricultural in their interests . A large number of men have found employment in factories , where they con- stitute an increasing percentage of the increasing number employed , and in other ...
Page 22
... families . The conjugal condition of the Japanese of the wage - earning class is shown in the tables following , the second giving the percentages corresponding to the figures entered in the first . MALE . Laundries . Lumber mills ...
... families . The conjugal condition of the Japanese of the wage - earning class is shown in the tables following , the second giving the percentages corresponding to the figures entered in the first . MALE . Laundries . Lumber mills ...
Page 71
... families , and the regular farm hands . In the other three dis- tricts of the State the Japanese do much of the work , white farmers and their families doing the remainder . In one of these districts the Japanese do nearly all of the ...
... families , and the regular farm hands . In the other three dis- tricts of the State the Japanese do much of the work , white farmers and their families doing the remainder . In one of these districts the Japanese do nearly all of the ...
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... families do much of the work in the fields . The German - Russian men are less efficient than Japanese , doing only about two - thirds as much work per man , and a large part of the German - Russian laborers are women and children , who ...
... families do much of the work in the fields . The German - Russian men are less efficient than Japanese , doing only about two - thirds as much work per man , and a large part of the German - Russian laborers are women and children , who ...
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... families , while the farmer and his family can lead a normal family life . Furthermore , the Japanese are venturesome . They are not de- terred by risk to the same extent that the members of other races are , and are greatly attracted ...
... families , while the farmer and his family can lead a normal family life . Furthermore , the Japanese are venturesome . They are not de- terred by risk to the same extent that the members of other races are , and are greatly attracted ...
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50 cents abroad agents agricultural amount anese Angeles Asiatic Exclusion League average barber shops board and lodging branches of business business conducted California canneries capital chiefly Chinese cleaning and pressing cobblers Commission competition conducted by Japanese contractors districts domestic earnings East Indians employees engaged in business farmers Female foreign-born Japanese French laundries groups Hawaii Hawaiian Islands incomes industry investigated Japa Japan Japanese business Japanese establishments Japanese in city Japanese laborers Japanese laundries Japanese meals Japanese restaurants Japanese shops large number larger less located lodging houses Los Angeles majority married month native nese number of establishments number of Japanese Number reporting occupations organized paid pool rooms proprietors races railroad read and write receive board restaurants serving American Sacramento San Francisco Seattle serving American meals speak English surplus Table tailors total number union wage-earners wages white patrons white persons
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Page 16 - That whenever the President shall be satisfied that passports issued by any foreign government to its citizens to go to any country other than the United States or to any insular possession of the United States or to the Canal Zone...
Page 329 - It was clearly recognized in regard to emigration from India to Canada that the native of India is not a person suited to this country, that, accustomed as many of them are to the conditions of a tropical climate, and possessing manners and customs so unlike those of our own people, their inability to readily adapt themselves to surroundings entirely different could not do other than entail an amount of privation and suffering which render a discontinuance of such immigration most desirable in the...
Page 16 - This understanding contemplates that the Japanese Government shall issue passports to the continental United States only to such of its subjects as are non-laborers or are laborers who, in coming to the continent, seek to resume a formerly acquired domicile, to join a parent, wife, or children residing there, or to assume active control of an already possessed interest in a farming enterprise in this country.
Page 162 - ... our children should not be placed in any position where their youthful impressions may be affected by association with pupils of the Mongolian race.
Page 325 - Arriving aliens whose permanent domicile has been outside the United States who intend to reside permanently in the United States are classed as immigrant aliens ; departing aliens whose permanent residence has been in the United States who intend to reside permanently abroad...
Page 16 - States," approved February 20, 1907, whenever the President is satisfied that passports issued by any foreign Government to its citizens to go to any country other than the United States or to any insular possession of the United States or to the Canal Zone, are being used for the purpose of enabling the holders to come to the continental territory of the United States to the detriment of labor conditions therein...
Page 6 - Japanese or Korean laborers, skilled and unskilled, who have received passports to go to Mexico, Canada or Hawaii, and come therefrom, be refused permission to enter the continental territory of the United States.