The Campaign to Push Japanese Workers Out of Mukilteo
The 'All-American League' sends a petition to the Crown Lumber Company demanding the dismissal of immigrant workers.
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Petitions have been sent to the head office of the Crown Lumber Co. at San Francisco, asking that white labor be employed in place of Japanese. We, citizens of Mukilteo, now known as the 'All-American League,' will close our appeal, and with us we have the citizens of Snohomish and King counties, as evidenced by the thousands of names on the petition. We hope our appeal has not fallen on barren soil, and that you will communicate to us the good news, that you will dispense with Japanese labor, and place in their stead good American workman.
“We, citizens of Mukilteo, now known as the 'All-American League,' will close our appeal, and with us we have the citizens of Snohomish and King counties.”
This article documents the exclusionary labor politics that shaped the early 20th-century Pacific Northwest, where nativist organizations used the pretext of 'American jobs' to systematically push Japanese immigrants out of the regional timber industry.
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