| Show I JAP LABORERS ON TIlE TUE RAILROADS Some Interesting Figures Pertain PertainIng PertainIng Ing to Their Employment WAXING irA livery Itt Ia to Ity ii II a to thu t rom From time to the much vexed I question ot of the tho IDt ot OS cheap labor on the tbt railroads railroad that operate In Utah is III brought tu to tb the attention ot of News New In the turin torm ot of IU letteN Oft en the from II Ia various part or of the State In this connection It has hall been time ume and time again aln that the immigration gration contract labor law I Ia being yb and that Japan Japanese lire are being im imported ported Into this country U as section hands handl direct from frum the land of tile the MI MIkado Mikado kado On the other hand this state I ii indignantly denied by bl the rail railroad 11 road who ho state tat that the little yellow men are l lo d In this coun country country try and have immigrated here bere at th their lr own expense in order to o better their dr clr l and R a fortune The fhe plea of the railroad I is that Japanese labor is only employed on the bad lands landi deserts and sections of the country where It Is II to get lel a white while mAn to 10 stay tay fore and Italian were employed but bUI upon comparison It was found that thai In every r respect the J labor was as more Inore reliable and infinitely ilp CROWDING WHITE iEN Now comes come the complaInt that the Jap is II crowding out the white man Inan and that hi services are bell being brought Into requIsition upon upun ot of tM thu lines where heretofore the energetic Amen Ameri American can laboring man has baa held undisputed way sway In III this connection It is II to note what II a distin distinguished Japanese who i visiting Salt and who I is a member of the i higher Imperial Industrial Council an and city councilman of oC Tokyo has hatt to say r on the subject In answer to lO question up upon upon on the subject yesterday he said al Yea Yel there are a large number or of Japanese now being employed b by thus the various railroads In American and they seem to give Ive general satIsfaction Al Although I though I do not know Just how tIan many i there are In the Welt S Ban Dati who i looks after the supplying ot of the Ibor at Portland told me the other ether day thAt lie he had placed over 1500 on the Oron Railroad tta Navigation company S I the Union J ant agent for supplying Japanese labor Cor or the Union Unton PacIfic also nillo told me recently that he ha had placed over 2000 of at my countrymen to work un on that road In answer r to a question from Crom a News ewI reporter r as al to whether hether the were contented over h here re MiS il said laid T Yea they are re oil all right hut but the they do not feel good In some lome places where tIme the white men do not like them anti and make lots of trouble how much do they get ct WAS th the next nest query quer Oh the they ret get sometimes a dollar II a day Later Latel on the gentleman admitted that every Jap employed through the lit at and other othel places place paid In n a dollar R a month for tor all as long all as lie he work worked In this Ihl country to the bossen who were the means ot of getting him a 11 ajob Job It America The gentleman how however ever denied that any of the men hall liati been Imported ct from Japan to work on the tho railroads but were er engaged on the Pacific coast Coalt A DIFFERENT STORY This phase ot of the question was put In a different light by tr r Kon Kondo Kondo do a prominent Japanese who was wal visiting the Unit United Id States some sometime time ago and anil who sas ten seen at the b by It a News ew reporter Mi I In talking about the migration of Japanese laborers laborera to this country stated at the timE that the Japanese government was wa InvestIgatIng the matter as numerous complaints were wert being filet In the In from men ITlen who had come cOlne to this thle country and were unable to get lel back lIe stated that agents over In Japan painted the money mone that wu was to be made malle In America In glowing col colors ors to the average JRp Jap working In lie rite Ie fields field and even went so 10 tar far III as to advance passage money to th the laborers to Induce them to come to America and work ork on th the You Tou know lie be said In fairly good English In Japan the tle laboring mAn 19 |
