Labor Groups Mobilize Against Japanese Workers in Mukilteo
Everett labor leaders join forces with local clubs to push for the exclusion of Japanese employees from the Crown Lumber Company plant.
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Word has just been received that local speakers have been secured to address the mass meeting in Mukilteo tomorrow night on the Japanese labor problem. Everett people are no less interested than residents of Mukilteo in the problem of employing white labor in the big lumber plant and will cooperate in all legitimate methods to bring about the desired end. P. C. Arnistad, vice president of the Mukilteo Chamber of Commerce, says the mass meeting, under the auspices of the chamber of commerce and the Ladies' Improvement club, will be a hummer. He is confident that the pressure of public sentiment brought to bear on the Crown Lumber company will be productive of good results.
“Everett people are no less interested than residents of Mukilteo in the problem of employing white labor in the big lumber plant and will cooperate in all legitimate methods to bring about the desired end.”
This reflects the volatile climate of the 1910 Pacific Northwest, where labor unions frequently engaged in exclusionary campaigns, masking nativist agendas under the banner of 'white labor' protection. This rhetoric directly preceded and fueled the more formalized exclusion efforts that would ripple through Washington labor organizations for decades.
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