Kinya Ushijima. the San Francisco area potato king. proposed to buy 2.000 acres to grow seed potatoes. and antiJapanese activities received renewed fuel. Ushijima was forced to give up his idea. In 1922. Congress held immigration hearings in Seattle and Tacoma. which encouraged antiJapanese forces. They became better organized. Attempts were made in 1917. 1919. and 1921 to pass an Alien Land Law. which was finally passed in 1923 and incorporated the worst features of both the California and Washington versions. Japanese Americans lost farms they had made productive. With their livelihood gone. families scattered to the four winds. In 1925. only a week after the Fourth of July. a mob of 200 persons attacked a Japanese workers camp at the Pacific Spruce Lumber Mills in Toledo.
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