AMERICA AND JAPAN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19199, 16 June 1924, Page 7

AMERICA AND JAPAN

THE BAN ON IMMIGRATION. JAPANESE SHOW RESENTMENT, Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. TOKIO, June 13. An American passenger in a municipal motor was ejected by the Japanese passengers.—Sydney Sun Cable. RESULT OF EXCLUSION POLICY. LABOUR- SHORTAGE IN HAWAII. WASHINGTON, June 15. (Received June 15, at 5.5 p.m.) The first tangible economic result of Japanese exclusion is a prsopoctive migration from Porto Rico to Hawaii as an offset against the impending labour shortage due to the exclusion of Japanese. The War Department is conferring with Porto Rican officials and American planters in Hawaii, and has tentatively approved of a plan tor the transport of Porto Rican labourers, thus relieving unemployment, and thereby reducing the labour surplus, which exceeds 400,000. It is understood that the War Department will recommend Congress to permit tho use of army transports offering passages to Hawaii at reduced rates. Tho department asserts that migration should bo encouraged from the standpoint of national defence, thereby overcoming the racial preponderance of Japanese in Hawaii and making every immigrant a potential American soldier.—A. and N.Z. Cable.