| Show WAIT chinese SKILLED LABOR IN philippine commercial delegate from the islands talks to the labor leaders and city officials of san francisco san francisco dec 10 A number of representatives of labor organizations and several city officials gathered at a meeting in the mayors altice to meet brewster cameron a merchant of manila and commercial delegate to the united states congress who arrived on the doric last week cameron represents the allied chambers of commerce of the islands and presented evidence of the immediate necessity for philippine legislation on labor currency tariff land laws and railroads he addressed his hearers on the need of skilled labor that can live in the trop ica and said that such labor isa is a choice between the japanese and chinese the japanese would remain and forever compete with alic filipinos and the chinese would agree to return to china which should operate in favor of selecting the chinese for tho work brew eter said there is an unwritten statute excluding chinese from engaging in philippine agriculture said and therefore the chinese skilled labor which it h desired to import will never enter into competition with the farmers and producers of the united |
