The Struggle for Mukilteo
Citizens and labor organizers intensify their campaign to drive Japanese laborers out of the local mill company.
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The anti-Japanese agitation in Mukilteo is neither dead nor sleeping. The noble women at the head of the movement in that little city, backed by the majority of the citizens, are as determined as ever to rid the community of the 'little brown sons of Nippon.' A mass meeting has been called in Mukilteo for next Monday evening, April 18, to further protest against the un-American policy of the mill company. Charles Ferry Taylor, of Tacoma, has been secured to address the meeting. The sympathy of nearly everybody in Everett is with our neighbors in their desperate fight for the rights of American workingmen and citizens.
“The Jap loving corporation is due to receive a jolt from Mr. Taylor that will jar every stockholder in the company.”
This article highlights a painful era of exclusion in Snohomish County, where labor movements frequently targeted immigrant populations to preserve local market monopolies. Today, these historical records serve as a reminder of the exclusionary past that stood in direct opposition to the multicultural identity of the modern Pacific Northwest.
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