AMERICAN AGRICULTURE.
THE JAPANESE STRANGLEHOLD. By Telegraph.—Press Asin.—Copyright. New York, June 2. The Western States’ Agricultural Conference at Sacramento, composed of directors and commissioners of agriculture from 11 States, sent a memorial to Congress asking for the alleviation of the conditions under which Japanese farmers in the West are rapidly gaining a stranglehold on the agricultural industry, and by reason of lower standards of living are underselling American farmers. The New York Times correspondent at Mexico City reports that a group of Japanese capitalists from Los Angeles has arrived after a trip through the northern part of Mexico in the interests of a Japanese company which is planning Large immigration of Japanese farmers from California into Mexico, also to develop mines, establish cotton mills, and work lumber tracts, etc. The company is negotiating for the control of national lands.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 June 1922, Page 8
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139AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. Taranaki Daily News, 5 June 1922, Page 8
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