JAPANESE FEARS IN AMERICA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11126, 27 July 1907, Page 1 (Supplement)

JAPANESE FEARS IN AMERICA.

APPEAL FOR POLICE HELP IN SAN FRANCISCO. '

SAN FRANCISCO, May 30.

The Japanese Association of America to-daymade a formal demand for better police protection of the Japanese restaurants and other Japanese places of business m this district. It asserts that the attacks on the restaurants did not "arise out of the existing strike, but were the outcome of race prejudice. Acting oil instructions from Washington, District- Attorney Devlin is continuing his investigation of the wrecking of the Folsom street restaurant. All the evidence thus far shows that a fight began with union men who invaded the place to administer a thrashing to other workmen for patronising a Japanese restaurant.

The feeling of the State and city officials is frankly expressed that Japan is making a great outcry about incidents which m the case of other nationalities would be regarded as mere police-court affairs.

Lawlessness and -disorder m San Francisco have now reached such dimensions owing to the rigor of trade-union boycotts that the people are stopping the work of rebuilding the city* in order to fight union labor with its own weapons. According to a report made to the Governor to-day no fewer than 40,000 workpeople are now out of work.. Of these, 10,000 belong to -the building trades. Four thousand street-railway workers walk the streets daily m droves looking for work. It is merely a question, say the correspondents, which will starve first, the employers or workmen.