ASIAN=LABORER?

Contract Work

Seasonal to annual labor Food and housing usually given but taken

out of paycheck Lower wages than white workers

Labor Contractors

The Oriental Trading Company

Furuya Company

Mining

Railroad

Northern Pacific, Great Northern and Monte Cristo Railroads

Canneries

Farming

Non-stationary/sedentary Lifestyle

Bachelor Society

Girls, girls, girls… Gambling Prostitution

Hotels and Restaurants

“There is a feeling of home sickness in my conscious mind as I stroll along my favorite rendezvous (King and Sixth) and welcome the balmy breeze of spring made pungent

by the stench of garlic and the classic ‘adobo’ wafting its unique and tantalizing

aroma from cafes crowded by brown faces”

-Filipino worker

Outside Seattle…

Tried to make themselves feel at “home” Food Tradition Friendships with other Japanese, Chinese,

Filipinos, etc.

Racism

Rock Spring Massacre 1885

“The civilization of the Pacific Coast cannot be half Caucasian and half Mongolian”

Resistance

Japanese Association of Washington Filipinos against contract labor

exploitation Hotels as the base of organizations