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Resolut�on,Ha ,6 ��,�
Ber�i�ting and inareasing newspaper reports of proposed chan-
ges in thc l�.ws proh3bitir_g Coolie �m�t� 3xnmigratian-�Ard
cons�ar�t efforts on the part oP certain employers to 3ntrvduce L�itz�- �-e-
AsiaticA ' �3��� ta compete with American��un..der the insidi-�
cus plea t�.at ther� will be a scarcity of lebar during the war�-
But with the obvious intent o� maki�g this plea an entering
wedge to open the gates and flood the coun�ry with a cla.s� undea�
d work��� ��e�_
�irable for citi�ens,and whose cheap ways of ��vingt�w
itably deprive our people of the means of praper°ly naurishing,
clothing and educa,ting their children. The proponents of th3s
Asiatie invitatian well knowing that when normal conditior_s �x
re�urn after the war and the induatries fostered and made nec-
essa.ry by tne abnarmal ccnditi.ons nov� existiag,no longer furn3sh I
employment far aur o�vn people, it will, be impoasible to return ths
Coalie hordes to the3.r fermer abode.
Asiatic labor for �he last 40 years has been th� anost disturb�
ing ele�rzent on the Pacific coast,causing riots and e�en interna-�
}ional complicat3ons---H3storyrf�'����it�elf,and will inevitably in
thi� ca�e..
'�h�r�fore:
Be �t resoZved by the City Council of the City oP Renton:
��as�� That the President of the United States a.n�.
each and all of the Senators and Representative� of the Stat�: of
�lashington are her.eby earnestly�.� petitioned and request-
ed to use every effcrt to prevent A�iatic immigration to this,
Pacific, coast�aa��oc .
And especially to pre�ent any change in. our present i�migra- �
tion Iaws,thaw wil7. tend to encoura.ge or invi�e those unde�irable
ag citizens. '
To the end that labor may be enobled rather than degraded.
��-Tr�s�t the City Clerk be instructed to send a copy of this reso-
lution to tre President of the United Statea,and to each o� the
Senatars and Representatives in Congress fro�n the State af �ash��
ir.gt on.
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Passed�i�ay of June,T927.
Appro�red 3�%day of June,I9I7
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Nayor
Attest
City Clerk
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