Mukilteo Residents Petition to Remove Japanese Mill Workers
The 'All-American League' of Mukilteo launches a campaign to pressure the Crown Lumber Company to replace 175 Japanese employees with white citizens.
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The people of Mukilteo are continuing their efforts to remove Japanese workers from the local mill. This week, they are sending a certified petition to Mr. James Tyson, president of the Crown Lumber Co. in Alameda, California, and his directors, urging the company to employ white labor instead. The All-American League claims the Japanese workers are a menace because they do not pay local taxes, do not have family ties in the area, and send their wages abroad. The league argues that replacing these workers with 175 white citizens would improve the community's tax base and morale. They have offered to provide 175 'good, honest, sober and competent white American citizens' to fill the positions immediately.
“We will furnish you, free of cost, 175 good, honest, sober and competent white American citizens to work in their places.”
This incident is a local expression of the widespread, state-sanctioned anti-Asian sentiment prevalent in Washington during the early 20th century. It highlights the exclusionary pressures that shaped the demographics and labor landscape of Snohomish County during this era.
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