JAP LABORERS REQUEST PROTECTION OF COURT

Application for an injunction restraining the white residents of Darrington from injuring them in case they return to work, was signed this noon by nineteen Japanese laborers who were expelled from that village one week ago and compelled to seek work elsewhere. The papers were drawn in the office of Lyter & Folsom, attorneys, and the petition will be made in the federal court this evening or early tomorrow morning.

Forty defendants are named in the papers, including storekeepers, commercial people and some laborers. As customary, "Richard Roe" and "John Doe" are also entered to cover the remaining rioters whose names could not be obtained by Attorney M. M. Lyter before the papers were drawn.

In case the petition is granted the white residents of Darrington will be unable to touch the Japanese laborers without showing contempt of the United States Court and calling down upon themselves the wrath of the federal government. Further applications will be made in the Everett court tomorrow before Superior Judge W.W. Black for an injunction to restrain the rioters from interfering with the United States Lumber Company or its property.

The nineteen Japanese who signed the application for protection today and who are appealing for the injunction are Tokujino Tsukinani, Sataro Yamamure. Kyuzo Kamibayashi, Haunei Kamabayashi, Yeitaro Taguchi, Sagaro Nishimura, Harukichi Nishimoto, Tomisburo Kimoshita, Unosuke Tokuno, Hikosaburo Isoi, Sukesaburo Okuda, Suketaka Imouye, Hatsusaburo Mitsumoto, Sugaichi Watanabe, Sangono Asada, Sugematsu Ichimaru, Toyokichi Osaki, Goro Tsuji.