A CALIFORNIAN CONVENTION.
: CHINESE USEFUL. [ THE REAL DANGER OF THE i) ! UNITED STATES.. X By Telegraph.— Pi ftss Associatiun.—Copyright« \ (Received December 7, 8 a.m.) " NEW YORK, 6th December. ' A convention, of • Californian fruit* growers at Marysville unanimously re* I commended repeal of the-i Chinese Exclusion Act, urging Congress to admit j a fixed liberal number of Chinese and 1 \ Japanese on the- same conditions as those applying to European immigrants. The memorial declares that industries 1 are threatened with extinction, and thai there is evidence that the States in the West have suffered from the presence . of Chinese prior to their exclusion... 2 Mr. John P. Irish, a well-known journalist, declared that the- real peril of 1 the country was immigration from Souths em and South-Eastern Europe. The present condition of things in the fruit!" regions was due to labour agitators, 1 * »' ' mostly aliens.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 138, 7 December 1907, Page 7
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144A CALIFORNIAN CONVENTION. Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 138, 7 December 1907, Page 7
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