ARM AGAINST YELLOW PERIL.

Building Trades Ask Citizens to Unite in a Convention.

WANTS LEAGUE ORGANIZED

Call for Petitions Asking School Board to Exclude Adult Japanese.

Resolved, That the Building Trades Council of San Francisco invite the San Francisco Labor Council, the City Front Federation, the several employers' associations, the various improvement clubs and other civic bodies in this city to send three representatives each to a convention, for the purpose of organizing an Anti-Japanese League.

Resolved by the Building Trades Council of San Francisco, That the secretary be and is hereby instructed to prepare a petition and circulate same for signatures requesting the Board of Education of the city and county of San Francisco to exclude all adult Japanese pupils from our public schools.

Warning against the peril that lurks in unrestricted Japanese immigration was sounded last evening at the meeting of the Building Trades Council of San Francisco. This is the representative central labor body of this city, composed of delegates from about sixty unions of skilled mechanics with an aggregate membership of 30,000. Secretary Tveltmoe introduced resolutions inviting the San Francisco Labor Council, the City Front Federation, the several associations of employers, the improvement clubs and all civic bodies in this city to meet in convention for the purpose of organizing an anti-Japanese league, and calling for the circulation of petitions for signatures requesting the Board of Education to exclude all adult Japanese from our public schools.

The resolution met with general favor in the council, and many stirring speeches were made by delegates in favor of speedy and effective measures to avert the danger which threatens the whole country from such an influx.

SOUNDS A WARNING.

Tveltmoe has made a thorough study of the Japanese question and the disastrous effects an unrestricted immigration is bound to have upon the whole country and sounded the warning notes several years ago. He urged that the question was of such vital importance to the employee as well as to the wage-earner that it should be taken up by all classes, no matter what their occupation.

During his remarks he referred to the efforts of the "Chronicle" in that direction in terms of unstinted praise, and urged all right-minded men who had the interest of the country at heart to aid with all their power in stemming the tide of this menace which threatens to engulf the whole country. A number of other delegates spoke in a similar vein, and as the first step in that direction the resolutions quoted above were unanimously adopted.

Employers and manufacturers of California are not indifferent to the danger from Japanese immigration, and one of the first organizations of manufacturers to voice its protest is the Cabinet Manufacturers' Association, which indorsed the course of the "Chronicle" at a recent meeting and sent the following letter to the editor:

EMPLOYERS ACT.

AN FRANCISCO, March 7, 1905--Editor, "Chronicle." Sir: The Cabinet

Manufacturers' Association of San Francisco, Cal., at its last meeting, held on Thursday evening, March 2, 1905, at the Builders' Exchange, 108 Jessie street, San Francisco, instructed its president and secretary to express the indorsement of this association of the policy of the "Chronicle" in its agitation of the restriction of Japanese immigration to this country, and its appreciation of your efforts to have proper laws enacted to prevent the further invasion of this class of aliens, as the members of this association believe that the rapid increase of the Japanese population in this city will result in being detrimental to the manufacturing interests of California, and injurious to the welfare of the mechanics of this city.

There are at present some so-called Japanese cabinet manufacturers in existence in this city, and the character of their work and their method of doing business do not elevate the standard of cabinet manufacturing, and it certainly affects the further interests of the cabinet makers and carpenters of San Francisco.

We trust that your agitation of the subject of the restriction of Japanese immigration will result in having Congress consider this question, and cause the passing of laws that will give the people of this State protection from the evils of excessive Japanese immigration. Yours very respectfully,

A.C. SCHINDLER, President.

L.H. ALLEN, Secretary.