LABOUR SHORT
DUE TO JAPANESE EXCLUSION. POSITION IN HAWAII. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT WASHINGTON, June 13. The first tangible economic result of Japanese inclusion is the prospective migralioiw from Porto Rico (West Indies) to Hawaii as an offset against the impendng labour shortage, due to the exclusion of Japanese. ' The War Department is conferring with the Porto Rican officials, and the American planters in Hawaii, and lias tentatively approved of a plan for the transport of Porto Rican labourers, thus relieving the unemployment there bv reducing the labour surplus, which exceeds 400,000. it is understood the War Department wdl recommend Congress to permit the use of army transport, thus: offering a passage to Hawaii aL reduced rates. The department asserts that migration should be encouraged from the "standpoint of national defence, thereby overcoming the racial preponderance of the Japanese in Hawaii by making every immigrant a. potential American soldier.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 June 1924, Page 5
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148LABOUR SHORT Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 June 1924, Page 5
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