Salt Lake Tribune | 1897-06-16 | Page 3 | Japanese Cheap Labor

JAPANESE CHEAP LABOR control the boot beet field fiel industry in california ran pan Franc francisco loco june li 15 state plate labor cammi commissioner toner Fiti fitzgerald gerald ia mho he has ju junt t returned turned it from it ft personal investigation of the labor employed in the beet fields says pay I 1 1 I ond find that between 95 and 98 99 per cent of 0 the labor used in the beet fields of california Is japanese and chinese mith lah the chinese fast going colne to lo the tha wall as ae against the competition of the japanese the come cane fields of hawaii have over 14 per cent of 0 white labor while the beet baft fields of 0 our own on california aftic but fi 5 por per cent at present prene nl the japanese bosses in the fields told me that next year they mill handle the entire ind industry astry they pay day too that they expect to bid against the in renting the land