We learned that in many of those flowering and fruitful communities in former times the young American people from the homes. schools. and colleges went gladly to the berry fields and orchards during the summer and found wholesome. attractive. and profitable employment in gathering such crops as grew in Eden. and that they no longer do so. We inquired why. The young men said. " Oh. that has become a Japs or a Chinks job." Mothers said. " We can not afford to have our daughters working side by side with oriental coolies." Both old and young look upon the present company and work of the fields as degrading. By this means young Americans were driven from the fields of California. as their cousins had been kept from time fields of the South and from time factories of New England. Bringing such labor but perpetuates and magnifies the evil it professes to remedy.
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Oriental coolies are degrading to work alongside.