Mukilteo residents protest Japanese labor at Crown Lumber Company
A local improvement club organizes a mass meeting to demand the hiring of white workers, marking the start of an anti-Japanese campaign in the region.
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The Sea View Improvement club of Mukilteo will fire their opening gun in the campaign against the Japanese next Saturday evening when a monster mass meeting will be held in the mill city to protest against the policy of the Crown Lumber Company. The officers of the club say they have met with splendid success with the petitions in circulation. People everywhere have been eager to express their disapproval of Japanese labor by signing the petition, and thousands of signatures could have been secured as easily as hundreds. The people of Mukilteo are aroused over the situation and will turn out en-masse to the meeting. The Journal and its readers sympathize with the people of Mukilteo in their efforts to make a white man's community and will do anything legitimate to help them in their campaign.
“The Journal and its readers sympathize with the people of Mukilteo in their efforts to make a white man's community.”
This article documents the exclusionary labor practices common in 1910s Washington, where 'white man's community' rhetoric was used to organize against immigrant workers. Such campaigns were often precursors to broader efforts to push marginalized groups out of local industries and neighborhoods entirely.
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