"Save Us From The Japanese Invasion: Citizens Do Your Duty Even Regardless of Jim Hill and Other Railroad and Government Officials Who Are Violating the Law."
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This was a headline in the Seattle Union Record (October 20, 1900, p. 7). The accompanying article was about a petition addressed to James J. Hill and other railroad owners, decrying the use of Japanese laborers.
This file appears in: Trouble All Along The Line: Hillyard's Forgotten Anti-Japanese Riot
Trouble All Along The Line: Hillyard's Forgotten Anti-Japanese Riot
(This article contain descriptions of anti-Japanese violence. Contemporary images and references may contain slurs.)
Prologue
Before it was annexed by Spokane in 1924, Hillyard was a town in its own…