The Archive · 1924

Japanese Trade Interests

Chinese market gardeners and! Japanese fishermen have respectively for some time been in control the retail vegetable and salmon industries on this coast. Now Joomes word from Seattle that Japanese are in virtual control of the Seattle Milk Shippers' Association. Efforts by the minority membership of the association to recall a Japanese controlled board lof directors failed at a mesting The directors were to have been put fon trial before the membership on charges that they used their power to discriminate unjustly against Jwhite dairy farmers to the alleged lbenofit of Japanese milk producers After a keen discussion a motion to withdraw the charges was Jcarried by 182 to 144 votes. It was. Jalleged after the meeting that the motion was carried as the result of 38 votes held by Japanese. The association has been involved in a milk war for over a month.

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