This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...contagious disease; 177 on surgeon's certificate of mental or physical defects; 73 because they were contract laborers; 2 because idiotic; 2 crimmals; 34 because they were polygamists. UNSKILLED LABORERS Of those who were investigated by the Immigration Commission, it was found that 85 per cent, had been farmers and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...contagious disease; 177 on surgeon's certificate of mental or physical defects; 73 because they were contract laborers; 2 because idiotic; 2 crimmals; 34 because they were polygamists. UNSKILLED LABORERS Of those who were investigated by the Immigration Commission, it was found that 85 per cent, had been farmers and farm laborers in India. Of the others, some had been soldiers, some business men, and a somewhat larger number, laborers in other lines. Usually they have little money in their possession when they arrive, and come with the expectation of accumulating a fortune of some $2,000, then going back to their native land. Some of them express dissatisfaction with the British Government in India, but it can by no means be said that they are fleeing from political oppression. Usually they have come without their families, but some, having decided to remain here, hope to have their families join them. Usually they have been engaged in the roughest and most unskilled labor, outside factory walls, to a considerable extent in the lumber mills, sometimes on the railroads, sometimes in the sugar-beet fields, and many of them as hand laborers in fruit picking. WAGES AND EFFICIENCY Where they work in competition with the other races they have sometimes been paid higher wages than the Japanese--as a rule lower wages than white men, they not being recognized generally as a white race. In some cases, certainly in Canada, they have been considered less desirable laborers than either Japanese or Chinese. Physically they are weak as compared with white men, or with the Japanese; generally they are slow to understand instructions, and practically always they require close supervision. A goodly proportion of the 5,000 or so found in the United States are in California. P...
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Fair. Size: 0x0x0; THIS IS A 1922 EDITION. Withdrawn library book with usual stickers and markings. Blue hardcover. No DJ. Shelf wear, rubbing, and staining to covers and edges. Pages are tanned, but unmarked and quite readable.
