Imigrants in industries (in twenty-five parts)U.S. Government Printing Office, 1911 - Emigration and immigration |
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... paid 14.8 cents ; in 1908 , 19.3 cents , without board and lodging . Work in the factories , mines , and various urban occupations has proved more attractive than farming or farm labor . In 1876 , 77.8 per cent of those gainfully ...
... paid 14.8 cents ; in 1908 , 19.3 cents , without board and lodging . Work in the factories , mines , and various urban occupations has proved more attractive than farming or farm labor . In 1876 , 77.8 per cent of those gainfully ...
Page 38
... paid considerably less than the mem- bers of any race save the Chinese , are now paid the same as the Italians and Greeks , who , with the Japanese , have constituted for several years the majority of the employees in the maintenance of ...
... paid considerably less than the mem- bers of any race save the Chinese , are now paid the same as the Italians and Greeks , who , with the Japanese , have constituted for several years the majority of the employees in the maintenance of ...
Page 39
... paid than any race save the few remaining Chinese . Their wages have usually been 25 cents per day less than those paid the Italians , for example . Most of the Greek , Scandinavian , and Austrian section hands are paid $ 1.50 per day ...
... paid than any race save the few remaining Chinese . Their wages have usually been 25 cents per day less than those paid the Italians , for example . Most of the Greek , Scandinavian , and Austrian section hands are paid $ 1.50 per day ...
Page 40
... paid $ 1 per day - the wage they have since been paid - except for a short time in 1906-7 and since the autumn of 1909 , when it was $ 1.25 . Since 1902 , few persons other than Mexi- cans have been employed as common laborers by this ...
... paid $ 1 per day - the wage they have since been paid - except for a short time in 1906-7 and since the autumn of 1909 , when it was $ 1.25 . Since 1902 , few persons other than Mexi- cans have been employed as common laborers by this ...
Page 41
... paid $ 1.40 per day , while the Italians , the other important racial element in maintenance of way work , are in some cases paid $ 1.50 . On the other two roads referred to , the Japanese are paid the same wages as all white men ...
... paid $ 1.40 per day , while the Italians , the other important racial element in maintenance of way work , are in some cases paid $ 1.50 . On the other two roads referred to , the Japanese are paid the same wages as all white men ...
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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.