GENERAL -- ALL STIRRED UP

San Francisco Labor Unions Get After Japanese Labor.

By Leased Wire.

NEW YORK, Monday, July 22. -- Some of the Japanese living in this city have been alarmed by the action recently taken by the labor unions of San Francisco, which ask the Japanese to be excluded as the Chinese are under the Geary act. The San Francisco labor unions are said to be preparing a petition to Congress. The Japanese here are considering the wisdom of organizing to fight the plan and may start a counter petition.

The attention of Y. Ohki, who is in charge of the Japanese consulate, has been called to the matter. Referring to the San Francisco resolutions he said:

"They want much, these workingmen, that they will not get. Your Congress will not pass such a law. I am sure of it.

"Congressmen and Senators who would vote to keep the Chinese out of the United States would decide against any law that included Japanese. Our government would surely resent such a discrimination, and would pass laws in retaliation which would hurt the trade of the United States in the East."

"Japan does not want to send laborers to the United States or any other country," added another consulate official. "They are needed at home to build roads and ditches and battleships, and to serve in the army. It is hard for one of the coolie class to leave Japan now owing to laws which the government has passed to keep them at home. These laws will be made even more strict to the near future, I believe. There are not many Japanese laborers in the United States today. Many of those who are considered laborers are really students who have to work their way while learning to do things after the American fashion. They stay here a few years and then go back home. In this the Japanese differ from the Chinese."

"Will the Japanese in this city take any action in this matter?" was asked.

"I have advised them to do nothing for the present, at least." said Chancellor Ohki. "Mr. Kogoro Takahira, our minister at Washington, is a most capable man and will take any action that may became necessary. He will not fail to do his best to keep Japan on as good a footing in this regard as the nations in Europe."