| Show TURLOCK SCENE Of EXPULSION Of COOLIES f White Fruit Pickers Load Sixty eight Orientals on on Trucks for Deportation SAN FR FRANCISCO July 20 Action Action on the Turlock k sit sitU situation ton is being I withheld by thC tho Japanese consulate II here hore until detailed advices are received received re- re j fro from Jap Japanese and American I participants participant S. S Y Yada da Japanese e consul consul con con con- sul sui general hero said today The Tho incident was the most do- do affair of its kind that has hu happened in California since I became consul general here Mr Yada said However I feel certain that the American government should protect I the the- Japanese residents in this country I for in our country the Japanese govI government gov gov- protects the Americans I MODESTO Cal Cat July July 20 By United Press Press Aroused by failure of ot otI I the Turlock ch chamber of commerce to sanctI sanction n a n boycott bocott n against the Japanese Jap Jap- anese raiding parties at midnight Jap I loaded all the Japanese in Turlock on trucks and und drove them out of ot town Sixty-eight Sixty Japanese laborers were deported Tho The Japanese were ere taken to Keyes an Isolated station wh where re they were vere loa loaded on ona a n. northbound t l train The Turlock men were angered by bythe tI the fa fact t that orientals working at lower lowr r wages h had d. d forced whites out of ot Jobs n ns es fruit workers I The proposed ed b boycott ott would have hao been at all producers who employed Japanese e labor The deportations deportation I are said sak to have been boen effected principally for tor tho the purpose pur pur- pose pORe of ot preventing and I Japanese laborers from coming into the Turlock district as ns melon pickers I Tho The raiders were masked They deported all Japanese tho they found except except except ex ex- ex- ex those who could produce land leases The Tho trouble is 19 an outcome of a adl dl disnute between tho the melon rs and tho the white melon meton pickers the latter lat atter at- at ter being organized in Inn a union The union rate for tor nicking I Is 25 cents a n crate The Tho Tapan Japanese se laborers have been picking melons for tor 16 cents I a crate The Tho farmers of ot the Turlock district were to Import between between between be be- tween and additional Japanese laborers It is said It is charged that the deportations were conceived bP by tho the white workers worker in order to prevent this move and to frighten Japanese e laborers laborers' away General Departure Of Japanese Residents I TURLOCK Cal Jut July 20 A A general P. P of Japanese t field laborers and their families from this district IK is tak- tak taki i I In Inc place today last nights night's deportation lon lonto to Keyes the authorities announce Japanese here herc who witnessed d the en enforced enforced en- en forced departure of ot complained to the poll police that they were 9 Continued nt nu d on page 2 2 Z f I TURlOCK SCENE Continued from page 1 1 roughly handled and In some instances were robbed The Japanese lease holders were not disturbed Tho The authorities said that the members of the mob which numbered about seventy five threatened to burn one Japanese e hotel and two Japanese bunkhouses in order to hasten the de departure de de- ro of ot their occupants Fifteen t een Japanese wc were taken S en from the Ole G rard town and tho the re remainder remainder re- re from various other proper proper- ties Tho The police expected to arrest some Of ot tho the mob leaders today The Japanese leaving today are arc goIng going go go- Ing in all aU directions but the greater number are h headed for Stockton Keyes and Modesto The Tho police pollee were notified that a a. number num num- ber of oC Japanese taken to Keyes lees by the mob were placed on board a northbound I freight t train aln which was WOoS The Japanese submitted in most Instances without even e a 0 protest Tho The Japanese had been brought into tho district under contract to white ra ranchers 1 h hrs rs' rs r to pick tho the fruit and melon crop Th They Y were being beingS paid 16 cents a a ft crate whereas white workers were getting 25 26 and 26 cents and this Is given as Ds tho the principal cause of ot the trouble The deportation followed a a. few tow days b by a similar deportation of ot Japanese workers from the Livingston Merced county count fruit district In tho the former in instance In- In stance however howe the farmers In the Livingston district were held responsible sible for tor tho the enforced departure of of the tho Japanese The mob worked silently and was hided aided to some Borne extent by tho the full fun moon Tho The Japanese wore aroused and ond given givena a certain time In which to dress and collect their belongings and were then ordered on to motor trucks and driven away Wives VI and children of or the tho de deportees deportees do- do were not molested The act of the mob toll followed owed l a protest protest pro pro- test to to the Turlock chamber of oC commerce commerce com corn merce merco yesterday b by tho the Fruit Pruit and ani Melon Pickers' Pickers Union and the refusal of ot the chamber chamb r to pass a a. resolution u up upholding up- up holding the tho protest Tho The chamber Is Issued Is is- issued sued n xi statement however criticising r white farmers who brought Japanese workers Into the district |
