AMERICA AND JAPAN.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 800, 10 February 1909, Page 2

AMERICA AND JAPAN.

NEWSPAPERS WANT A * AIR CHANCE GIVEN. LABOUR UNIONS RESOLUTE. ALIENS IN AMERICA. [BY ELECTBIO TELEGBAPH I—COPYBIGHT.]1 — COPYBIGHT.] [PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION.] New York, February 9. Public opinion in the Eastern States of America is against the Californian anti-Japanese legislation and in favour of giving Japan an opportunity of fulfilling her agreement. The newspapers on the Pacific Coast are nearly unanimous against the Bills, but the Labour Unions are resolute. v President Roosevelt, in a message to Mr Gillett, Governor of California, says: "The policy of my ad-, ministration is to corifbine ft maximum of efficiency with a minimum of friction and trouble, while the misguided advocates of the action against which- I protest follow a policy of a minimum of efficiency and a maximum of insult and harm." The PresSJent adds that the Bill is clearly a violation of the treaty. Moreover, if in a year or two the immigration policy between the United States and Japan fails to achieve what it is now achieving, then through the President and Congress it can be made efficient. (Received February 10, 8.10 a.m.) New York, . February 9. A Bill has been introduced into the State Assembly of Nebraska for separating Japanese and Chinese workmen from American workmen, in order to prevent a recurrence of the condition prevailing in South Omaha packing houses.