Japanese Still Deal in Pike Place Market

Japanese vegetable dealers in the Public Markets were doing business as usual today, because the younger Japanese who are American citizens have the stalls in their name, and technically only "employ" their parents, most of whom are aliens.

"A Japanese who isn't a citizen can't have a permit to sell here," J.F. Davidson, marketmaster of the Pike Place Market, said today. "The Japanese have their land and businesses in their children's names."

The older Japanese, many American residents for a score of years, cannot become citizens because of anti-Oriental provisions in the immigration laws.

Joe Desimone, lease of the Pike Place Market, declared:

"I am going to the Federal Bureau of Investigation today. If they tell me to fire the Japs I have working for me, I'll fire them all, not only the ones in the stalls, but the ones in the wholesale houses and on the farms, too."

The Pike Place Market is owned by the city and leased to Desimone. The market had a police guard today.