Imigrants in industries (in twenty-five parts)U.S. Government Printing Office, 1911 - Emigration and immigration |
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... laborers Japanese employed in the lumber and timber industries of Oregon and Washington Japanese employed in the salmon - canning industry in Washington , Oregon , and Alaska . Japanese employed in fruit and vegetable canneries of ...
... laborers Japanese employed in the lumber and timber industries of Oregon and Washington Japanese employed in the salmon - canning industry in Washington , Oregon , and Alaska . Japanese employed in fruit and vegetable canneries of ...
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... laborers most of whom were youths or young men working on their fathers ' farms without wages , for farm laborers working regularly for wages have been relatively few . Moreover , 21.8 per cent , including women and children , had not ...
... laborers most of whom were youths or young men working on their fathers ' farms without wages , for farm laborers working regularly for wages have been relatively few . Moreover , 21.8 per cent , including women and children , had not ...
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... laborer has been able to save much more to send home or to invest in this country than he could earn in his native land ... laborers are somewhat higher and their employ- ment more regular than before restrictions were placed upon their ...
... laborer has been able to save much more to send home or to invest in this country than he could earn in his native land ... laborers are somewhat higher and their employ- ment more regular than before restrictions were placed upon their ...
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... laborers under contract has been unlawful . In return for a fee , varying from 10 to 20 yen , these companies , when the indi- vidual secures his passport , arrange for his emigration and perhaps for the surety required by the ...
... laborers under contract has been unlawful . In return for a fee , varying from 10 to 20 yen , these companies , when the indi- vidual secures his passport , arrange for his emigration and perhaps for the surety required by the ...
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... laborers as $ 1.50 in Seattle and $ 3 in San Francisco for each railroad laborer . The other phases of this organization of labor will be discussed elsewhere . The point to be emphasized here is that this situation has at least ...
... laborers as $ 1.50 in Seattle and $ 3 in San Francisco for each railroad laborer . The other phases of this organization of labor will be discussed elsewhere . The point to be emphasized here is that this situation has at least ...
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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.