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Show w WAGES IN JAPAN Consideration of wages paid in Japan demonstrates why Japanese are anxious to emigrate to this country, coun-try, and likewise why the people of the Pacific coast states, where the influx of Japanese has been the greatest; great-est; are insistant that exclusion laws against Nipponese be enforced. The American consul at Yokkaichi, Japan, under date of April 17, 1919, has furnished through the state department de-partment a table of wages prevailing prevail-ing in various occupations in Japan. The official data thus supplied shows that a blacksmith in Japan receives a wage of 50 cents a day, while a bricklayer gets 65 cents. In Utah bricklayers have been paid as high as $15 a day, and the average wage is $9 or $10 a day; A Japanese laborer receives 3Sc a day and a confectioner gets $5.67 a month, with board. A painter is paid 40 cents a day, a plasterer 49c and a printer 3 5 cents. A man servant ser-vant receives $2.94 a month and a woman servant $2.54, board being included in both instances. Other occupations are similarly rewarded. We can't blame the Japanese, Jap-anese, therefore for wanting to get out of their native country, but do we want this cheap labnor in America? Am-erica? We think not. |