CALIFORNIA’S PROBLEM
FILIPINO IMMIGRATION. ' * DELEGATES TO WASHINGTON. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegia(ih—-Copyrlgljt.> SAN FRANCISCO, February 2. Delegations will shortly leave for Washington to ask the Government to settle California’s Filipino problem. The Labour leaders will request that all Filipino. immigration shall be stopped. A rival committee of Filipinos themselves, representing more than 60,000 at present living in California, will agree to accept exclusion if the Philippines are given independence. They want home rule for Manila so badly that almost 60,000 will agree to return westward across the Pacific if- America will withdraw from the islands. ' The Labour Union delegates will reply that if this is the price of exclusion they are quite willing to see the Philippines get independence.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20942, 4 February 1930, Page 9
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