>>514844753
In India a clerk can be had for $10 a month; a man cook for $3 a month; a maid servant for $1 a month; carpenters, bricklayers, etc., 33 cents a day, etc. The scale of wages is less for a day’s work in India than the average American mechanic or laborer receives per hour.
These are the people who are flooding the west, the people that the railroads are welcoming with open arms and furnishing employment because they help them solve the problem of the high American workman starvation wages.
Charges have been made against the commission on immigration at San Francisco. These charges have resulted in nothing. Demands have been made that the port be closed to the Hindus as the other ports of the Pacific coast, on the ground that the Hindu is apt to become a public charge and that he practices polygamy. But although this has been found sufficient to stop their entry in other coast ports they continue to flock to San Francisco, where they are distributed around the country in railroad camps, vineyards, foundries, etc.
When the legislature of California convenes at the next session there will be a big row over the Hindu. Not only will the labor party demand that they be excluded but they will also demand that laws be passed prohibiting Asiatics from owning land within the state. California tried to stop Asiatic immigration when it faced the Japanese problem, but the federal government demanded that it be allowed to cope with the situation.
But since the federal government failed to stop that which the laborer thinks a menace to them and their families, they are out to take matters in their own hands and fight it to the bitter end—either to victory or defeat.
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