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	A Polyglot Cargo: Asian Immigrant Farm Workers and the Politics of Difference in California Organized Labor, 1904-1920
		In a sense, the league was the logical heir of the Workingmen's Party of San Francisco, a group that, by 1906, was defunct.
		The governing board resolved that the Chinese Exclusion Act had been a success and that the government should further insure the security of white workers in both industry and agriculture (in which Asian laborers had led to "almost the total exclusion of white labor")31 by passing further exclusion laws targeting Japanese and Korean immigrants.
		The efforts of the Asiatic Exclusion League in lobbying political bodies were made clear in legislative actions of the early twentieth century against Asian farmers and for the establishment of a political alliance that joined rural whites with urban industrial laborers.
	userwww.sfsu.edu /~epf/2000/klivie.html (5347 words)

	question3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In 1905 the Asiatic Exclusion League lead a campaign to exclude Japanese and Koreans from the United States.
		San Fransiscos board of eduacation, who was pressurized by the League, ruled that all Japanese and Korean children, even if they were born in the United States and by law had U. citizenship, They had to attend seperate schools thorought the country with the Chinese.
		The Asiatic Exclusion League mounted a campaign in 1905 to exclude Japanese and Koreans from the United States.
	www.punahou.edu /js/japanese/kazama/8/241/12/question03.htm (607 words)

	Punjabi American Heritage Society - Essay
		The Asiatic Exclusion League was formed in 1908.
		The Asiatic Exclusion League leaders were also leaders of the organized labor movement.
		By 1910, Asiatic Exclusion League was successful in lobbying for imposing immigration restrictions on Indians.
	www.punjabiamericanheritagesociety.com /essays/2004-10-10.html (1709 words)

	Japantown, Vancouver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was attacked in the early 1900s by the Asiatic Exclusion League, which burned down Chinatown.
		Japantown knew about the attacks, and the Japanese defeated the Asiatic Exclusion League members from destroying their shops.
		During World War II when Japanese Canadians had their property confiscated and were interned, Japantown ceased to be a distinct Japanese ethnic area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japantown,_Vancouver (243 words)

	Asiatic Exclusion League - Definition, explanation
		The Asiatic Exclusion League was formed on May 14, 1905 in San Francisco by 67 labor unions.
		The league was almost immediately successful in in pressuring the San Francisco Board of Education to segregate Asian school children.
		A sister organation with the same name was formed in Vancouver on September 7, 1907 (as reported in the Vancouver News-Advertiser.) Their stated aim was "to keep Oriental immigrants out of British Columbia." On September 8th, serious riots erupted in Vancouver as the league members besieged Chinatown.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/a/as/asiatic_exclusion_league.php (388 words)

	Internment of Japanese-Americans During World War II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The agitation leading up to the Chinese Exclusion Act made it clear to many that something drastic regarding Chinese immigration was about to occur, and even before passage of the Act, labor recruiters began visiting Japan to find replacements for the lost Chinese.
		From the day of the League's formation on May 14, 1905, until after the end of World War II, there was in California, an organized anti-Japanese movement that would eventually draw support from all segments of the state's population.
		Consequently, the Asiatic Exclusion League prompted the legislatures of other Pacific Coast states to adopt resolutions restricting Japanese immigration from Hawaii.
	www.aristarchus.org /intern.php (2298 words)

	Anti-Japanese Groups
		In May 1905, delegates from 67 organizations convened in San Francisco, California, to form the Asiatic Exclusion League, later known as the Japanese Exclusion League.
		Led primarily by labor groups, the League's goal was complete job exclusion of those of Japanese ancestry.
		The League pressured Congress to keep Japanese people out of agriculture and other industries, and to stop all immigration of Japanese to the U.S. They held anti-Japanese rallies and worked to restrict employment of Japanese Americans.
	www.densho.org /causes/1racism/1antijapanesegroups.asp (305 words)

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		Organized by the Asiatic Exclusion League, in ended in a riot when over 8,000 men ransacked stores in the Chinese district of Vancouver.
		The majority of the residents are utterly opposed to the present flinging wide the gates to Asiatics.
		In January of 1908, the president of the "Asiatic Exclusion League" urged the government to undertake a wholesale search of all Japanese homes for arms, insisting that they possessed "arsenals" which were to be used against white citizens (Adachi, 1991, p.76).
	teapot.usask.ca /cdn-firearms/Research/Panic/4-0.html (1980 words)

	iafpe - Indian american forum for political education
		Attorney General Charles Bonaparte bolstered the Asiatic Exclusion League’s objective by declaring that the East Indians were ineligible for citizenship because the Congress, by an act in 1790, restricted naturalization only to ‘white’ races and persons of African descent.
		The exclusion of Indians, however, was officially accomplished by the passage of an immigration bill in 1917 over the veto by President Woodrow Wilson.
		Attitude began to change slowly in 1943 after the repeal of Chinese Exclusion laws and the realization that India was destined to be a free and powerful nation in the near future.
	www.iafpe.org /php/showNewsDetails.php?linkid=5&newsid=6 (1106 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Chinese Exclusion Act (April 29) is extended for another ten years and to prohibit immigration of Chinese laborers from the Phillippines.
		Congress passes another act, extending all Chinese exclusion laws then in existence indefinitely to be applicable to all insular possessions of the Untied States.
		The Asiatic Exclusion League is established in San Francisco.
	www.chiamonline.com /Chronology/1900.htm (408 words)

	Fear and Loathing: Hinduphobia in America - Christian Aggression
		Documents from the archives of the AEL indicate that the Euro-Americans were clearly alarmed at the prospect of Indians producing native-born Indian Americans.
		The San Francisco Chronicle declared pompously on September 12, 1910: The objections to Asiatic immigration are no more strenuously urged by workingmen than they are by all others who care for the maintenance of the civilization of the white race.
		The San Diego Union editorialized: ‘Employment of Asiatics in California industries, no matter what might be the immediate profits, would be ruinous to the people of the State as a whole’.
	www.christianaggression.com /item_display.php?type=ARTICLES&id=1114640680 (2658 words)

	AsianWeek.com: Feature: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Asiatic Exclusion League, a group made up of representatives of 67 labor organizations, is established in San Francisco.
		Chandra K. Chakravarty, founder of the Pan Asiatic League, is arrested in connection with the Hindu Conspiracy case; Ram Chandra, who worked with Har Dayal for India’s Independence, is also tried in the case.
		Haan Kil-soo charges that Japan plans to attack the United States, and that the Japanese in Hawaii are ready to assist Japan in case of war with the United States.
	www.asianweek.com /2001_02_02/lny07_snakeyearevents.html (1084 words)

	UH Law Center - Korematsu v. United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Anti-Japanese movement escalated in 1905 when the Asiatic Exclusion League was set up.
		This order declared that "the successful prosecution of the war requires every possible protection against espionage and against sabotage to national defense material, national defense premises, and national defense utilities." The order came to be applied increasingly to people of Japanese ancestry, citizen and alien alike.
		The restrictions ranged from the imposition of curfews to forced removal to "relocation centers" outside Military Area I. At the time of the announcement of the exclusion order, Fred Korematsu was in his early twenties.
	www.law.uh.edu /teacher/korematsu (668 words)

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		Thus, the Asiatic Exclusion League was created on May 14, 1905, consisting of a group of people determined to end the immigration of the Japanese (Avakian 110).
		In the Supreme Court, his conviction was upheld by a six-to three vote stating that the evacuation order was because of “military necessity” (Avakian 143).
		Mitsuye Endo was a second-generation Japanese American, so she was born into citizenship and obviously was not a security threat so there was no reason for her to be detained (Avakian 144).
	ns.headroyce.org /~us_history/2004/b_mmark/printableversion.html (2852 words)

	Canadian Immigration Reformer: ROBERT JARVIS, R.I.P. [Archive] - Stormfront White Nationalist Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		He was a founding member of the British Columbia Free Speech League and of the William Hopkinson Society in 1991.
		He became Canada's foremost experts on the Asiatic Exclusion League and the immigration reform movement in Canada before the First World War.
		C-FAR published his study The Workingman's Revolt: The Vancouver Asiatic Exclusion Rally of 1907, as part of its Canadian Issues Series, in 1991.
	www.stormfront.org /archive/t-162686Good_weekend/t-150836Veiling_NSDAP_/t-17075024/M/t-112884.html (1838 words)

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		Seven years ago the Asiatic Exclusion League of North America was organized.
		Nor, as yet, have the courts permitted the regulation of the hours of labor of adult male employees except in dangerous occupations, such as underground work in the operation of mines.
		It is true, also, that in the case of Asiatics it has been increased by the attitude of the white races.
	www.expo98.msu.edu /people/millis.htm (5133 words)

	INDOlink - Diaspora - Fear and Loathing: Hinduphobia in America
		It must be remembered that practically all of the Asiatics living in this country are constantly sending to their relatives in the home countries across the way a large percentage of their earnings.
		‘With unrestricted Asiatic immigration within two generations all the Pacific Coast states would be Orientalized, and if that were accomplished economic conditions would almost certainly involve, not the secession but the driving out of the Western States from the Union’.
		The Japanese, the Chinese and the Hindu cannot be made a part of the American civilization except in the capacity of servile labor.
	www.indolink.com /displayArticleS.php?id=042705083828 (2434 words)

	Special Interests and the Internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The agitation leading up to the Chinese Exclusion Act made it clear to many that something drastic regarding Chinese immigration was about to occur, and even before passage of the Act, labor recruiters began visiting Japan to find replace ments for the lost Chinese.
		On the second Sunday in May, 1905, delegates from sixty-seven local and nearby labor organizations met to form what became the Asiatic Exclusion League.
		That goal was achieved when on May 15, 1924, a bill that became known as the Japanese Exclusion Act of 1924 passed the House of Representatives.
	www.libertyhaven.com /theoreticalorphilosophicalissues/history/internment.html (2298 words)

	Manas: The Indian Diaspora in the US, Establishing Roots
		The first significant presence of Indians in the United States can be traced to exactly one hundred years ago, when peasants from the province of Punjab began appearing on the west coast, seeking work in Washington’s lumber mills and California’s vast agricultural fields.
		In these circumstances, the new immigrants, whose difficulties were compounded by their high illiteracy rates and poor knowledge of English, undoubtedly imbibed their first political lessons, acquiring the skills and tenacity necessary to use the courts to their advantage, combat racism, and pursue a livelihood.
		Asian Indians were emboldened by the Atlantic Charter (1941), which conceded the right of all peoples to self-government, and sought to impress upon the United States Government the importance of Indian assistance in preventing the formation of a Japanese-German military axis in Asia.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/Diaspora/roots.html (2522 words)

	Pre-Camp Situation
		The immigrants were seen as an economic threat because Japanese were willing to work for less money than the unionized white workers (Avakian 109).
		Thus, the Asiatic Exclusion League was created on May 14, 1905, consisting of a group of people
		The Asiatic Exclusion League was fueled by the fear of invasion and created anti-Japanese propaganda, started boycotts of Japanese businesses and used the media to spread their views (Avakian 110).
	ns.headroyce.org /~us_history/2004/b_mmark/precampsituation.html (709 words)

	Canadian Government Apology To Sikh Community
		However, during time of high unemployment Asian workers "stole jobs away from whites" and were used by industrialists as a threat against white worker unions.
		Racism in BC newspapers, in the legislature and in the general population was partly due to the economy and partly to the perception of Orientals and East Indians as "culturally and morally different"; and led to the formation of groups such as the Asiatic Exclusion League.
		While negotiating, the government was represented by Malcom Reid, an immigration officer, William Hopkinson, a government officer and coordinator of a spy ring within the East Indian community, H.H. Stevens, an alderman and leader of the Asiatic Exclusion League and Robie Reid, a lawyer.
	www.sikhnet.com /Sikhnet/discussion.nsf/3d8d6eacce83bad8872564280070c2b3/FE75BEAE287EA655872569610055F9DF!OpenDocument (2000 words)

	Chronology of the Japanese American Internment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		March 24, 1942 The first Civilian Exclusion Order issued by the Army is issued for the Bainbridge Island area near Seattle.
		By the end of October, 108 exclusion orders would be issued, and all Japanese Americans in Military Area No. 1 and the California portion of No. 2 would be incarcerated.
		December 18, 1944 The Supreme Court decides that the Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu was indeed guilty of remaining in a military area contrary to the exclusion order.
	timmer.org /HISTORY_17B/Manzanar/chronology.htm (3082 words)

	Asian :: Asian exclusion law pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Chinese Exclusion Law suspends immigration of laborers for ten years Wing F.Ong becomes first Asian American to be elected to state office in the.
		Act of April 27, 1904--reaffirmed and made permanent the Chinese exclusion laws ?Of all Asian-origin population only the Japanese are not majority.
		The Chinese Exclusion Act was a blatantly racist immigration law.
	asian.mpegs1.com /asian-exclusion-law-pictures (1197 words)

	Five Views: An Ethnic Historic Site Survey for California (Japanese Americans)
		The Asiatic Exclusion League, formed in May 1905, mounted a campaign to exclude Japanese and Koreans from the United States.
		Under pressure from the league, the San Francisco Board of Education ruled on October 11, 1906 that all Japanese and Korean students should join the Chinese at the segregated Oriental School that had been established in 1884.
		Similarly, the civilian exclusion orders, issued by DeWitt, directed Japanese Americans along the West Coast to report for detention at designated times and places.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/5views/5views4d.htm (1577 words)

	H. H. STEVENS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In the course of my investigation, carried out for the most part in the Vancouver Public Library and in the Vancouver City Archives, I discovered that during the years 1905 to 1907, something like a full-fledged invasion from China, India and Japan to British Columbia occurred.
		In response to this invasion, the Asiatic Exclusion League was formed in Vancouver on July 24, 1907, and was affiliated with similar organizations in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and other Pacific coast cities.[(Jarvis, Robert The Workingman's Revolt: The Vancouver Asiatic Exclusion Rally of 1907 Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform Inc. Toronto, Ontario, 1991.)]
		I hold that it is a sacred trust of the Anglo-Saxon and kindred peoples to hold that civilization and to cherish it.
	www.canadafirst.net /our_heritage/h-h_stevens (3357 words)

	japantime
		Anti-Asiatic Riot in Vancouver conducted by the Asiatic Exclusion League.
		Hayashi-Lemieux Gentlemen's Agreement: Japan voluntarily agreed to restrict the number of passports issued to male labourers and domestic servants to an annual maximum of 400.
		Delegation from Japanese Canadian Citizens League goes to Ottawa to plead for franchise.
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/calgary/japantime.html (492 words)

	History of the Japanese - U.S. Relationship
		Congress passes Chinese Exclusion Act, which bars further Chinese immigration and prohibits Chinese from citizenship.
		The Asiatic Exclusion League reports 231 organizations affiliated now, 195 of them labor unions.
		June 2-3: Report of CWRIC contained in Personal Justice Denied concludes that exclusion, expulsion and incarceration of Japanese Americans nor justified by "military necessity"; that decision was based on "race prejudice, war hysteria and a failure of political leadership.
	bss.sfsu.edu /internment/history.html (2555 words)

	Issues In Global Education - Spotlight on China: Traditions Old & New
		February 27, 1942 Idaho Governor Chase Clark tells a congressional committee in Seattle that Japanese would be welcome in Idaho only if they were in "concentration camps under military guard." Some credit Clark with the conception of what was to become a true scenario.
		Thus, each of the 10 camps had schools and hospitals, a newspaper, some degree of democratic self-government and such leisure activities as baseball leagues and movie showings.
		The CWRIC actually had its beginnings in 1979 when the Japanese American Citizens League decided to act on its goal of seeking redress and pushed for the formation of the committee.
	www.globaled.org /issues/147/d.html (2212 words)

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