Mine. Chiang Kaishek. in this House. can possibly opposethis meritorious. just legislation. The first Chinese Exclusion. Act -was passed in 1882. -when -certain interests were importing Chinese coolie labor into the United States. At that timethe railroads were under. construction. between Minneapolis and the Pacific coast. -and after they.were completed cheap.Chinese labor did injuriously affect us. People in California. as everywhere else. resented the action on the part of those "corporations or individuals .who were taking advantage of permissible Chinese immigration to import cheap .labor. Since thattime mapy .efforts -have be en made to repeal :hese .unfair excluding acts.. because they and the gentlemens agreement give Japan greater" privle :Under presenti conditi n i tin they. giv to China. - We i realize that China has suffered great humiliation by being stigmatized an unequal of notohlj our own citizens but of fhe Japaheke. We are all very friendly to the high causeofChina.
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