Title: "Japanese Exclusion League Will Finish Organization To-Day," San Francisco Chronicle, 5/21/1905, (denshopd-i69-00032)
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JAPANESE EXCLUSION LEAGUE WILL FINISH ORGANIZATION TO-DAY

The Japanese and Corean Exclusion League will meet at 2 o'clock this afternoon in Unity Hall, 927 Mission street, for its third general session. The most important business before the meeting will be the selection of an executive committee of fifteen members, into whose hands will be intrusted the management of the campaign to be outlined by the league.

The convention will discuss the general work of the league for the campaign to be inaugurated. With the appointment of the executive committee the organization shall be completed, and the league will be ready for active and systematic work, to rent offices, open permanent headquarters, gather statistics, prepare literature, disseminate information, and place the question of Japanese exclusion intelligently and truthfully before the American people. Steps have already been taken to organize branch leagues all over the Pacific Coast and in the industrial centers of the Eastern and Southern States. Several branch leagues are being organized in California, Oregon and Washington.

A conference is to be arranged with the United States Senators and Congressmen from the Pacific States, all of whom are in favor of Japanese exclusion, and measures will be decided upon how to best restrict the influx of undesirable Japanese and Corean immigration.

Quite a number of organizations have been added to the roll during the week, and more are expected to join. Several instances have been reported of employers discharging Japanese help since the meeting of last Sunday, when resolutions were adopted to withhold patronage from establishments in which Japanese are employed.

O.A. Tveitmo, president of the Japanese and Corean Exclusion League, received a telegram from P.H. McCarthy, president of the State Building Trades Council and its fraternal delegate to the annual convention of the Structural Building Trades Alliance of America in session at Buffalo, N.Y., stating that the convention has unanimously adopted resolutions favoring Japanese exclusion from the United States, and will memorialize Congress in favor of an exclusion law.

The Structural Building Trades Alliance of America is composed of all the leading national and international building trade organizations, representing an aggregate membership of over 600,000 skilled mechanics.