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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (17681)	5/23/2003 7:09:57 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

Ray, Much of the discrimination against Asians, was enacted into law during the late 19th and early 20th Century. During the heyday of the Progressive Movement. These laws (which included alien land laws - at the same time the Federal Government refused to allow Asians to become Naturalized Citizens) were being removed by the 50's. The American Federation of Labor came out with a pamphlet titled: "Some Reasons for Chinese Exclusion. Meat vs. Rice. American Manhood against Asiatic Coolieism. Which Shall Survive?" in 1902. "Running as a fault line throughout the U.S. labor movement's history has been hostility toward Asian workers. American unions were major proponents of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, the first racially exclusive U.S. immigration policies targeting people from a single country. Subsequently, the racist immigration laws were expanded to include other immigrants from Asia. The American Federation of Labor, under its first president, Samuel Gompers, explicitly forbade Asian workers from joining the ranks of the American labor movement..." - qc.edu (Edward) "Ross was also an activist in the socialist movement and in the labor movement, had made speeches in support of the labor movement and Asian exclusion, as he saw the two issues as linked. He feared as labor agitators and from Dennis Kearney to Samuel Gompers, socialists such as Jack London saw themselves as friends and supporters of the labor movement, but this was of the white labor movement and they saw Asian laborers who were coming into the country as threats to the living standards and livelihood of white workers. And so socialism, labor agitation, and anti-Asian exclusion were all bound up together,..." becoming.stanford.edu