JAPANESE IN OREGON
DRIVEN OUT OF A TOWN
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Sun Cable.)
NEW YORK, duly 15,
A message from Salem, Oregon, states that following on the reported protest in Tokio, Governor Pierce is investigating the action of a mob in Toledo, Oregon, forcing a score of Japanese mill workers to leave the town last, Sunday. Citizens complained that the Pacilic Spruce Corporation imported labourers, paying them 241 i cents a day while the whites were previously paid .'i(i!l cents to four dollars for the same work.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 16 July 1925, Page 5
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