Imigrants in industries (in twenty-five parts)U.S. Government Printing Office, 1911 - Emigration and immigration |
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... less than five years was 57.1 ; less than ten years , 90.3 ; less than fifteen years , 98.4 . The corre- sponding percentages for the members of the other group are 28.2 , 72.3 , and 92.4 , respectively . The longer residence of the ...
... less than five years was 57.1 ; less than ten years , 90.3 ; less than fifteen years , 98.4 . The corre- sponding percentages for the members of the other group are 28.2 , 72.3 , and 92.4 , respectively . The longer residence of the ...
Page 39
... less than those paid the Italians , for example . Most of the Greek , Scandinavian , and Austrian section hands are paid $ 1.50 per day , but whatever the wage in the different localities investigated , it was found to be somewhat ...
... less than those paid the Italians , for example . Most of the Greek , Scandinavian , and Austrian section hands are paid $ 1.50 per day , but whatever the wage in the different localities investigated , it was found to be somewhat ...
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... less per day than Italians , Greeks , and Slavs . Secondly , that with their acceptance as desirable laborers and ... less intelligent , less adaptable , and less progress- ive - all qualities receiving little emphasis in work of this ...
... less per day than Italians , Greeks , and Slavs . Secondly , that with their acceptance as desirable laborers and ... less intelligent , less adaptable , and less progress- ive - all qualities receiving little emphasis in work of this ...
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... less . 22 In addition to the above facts , this branch of employment has offered little opportunity for progress . Some Japanese serve as sub- foremen , and a few , on one railway , as foremen . However , like the Mexicans and most of ...
... less . 22 In addition to the above facts , this branch of employment has offered little opportunity for progress . Some Japanese serve as sub- foremen , and a few , on one railway , as foremen . However , like the Mexicans and most of ...
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... less wide range than the Mexicans and the Italians . Though more Mexicans than Japanese are engaged in semiskilled work , this is explained by the fact that most of the former are em- ployed in shops located in places where it is ...
... less wide range than the Mexicans and the Italians . Though more Mexicans than Japanese are engaged in semiskilled work , this is explained by the fact that most of the former are em- ployed in shops located in places where it is ...
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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.