The Anti-Jap Laundry League was an organization founded in 1908 in the United States by the Laundry Workers' and Laundry Drivers' Unions. The league, based in San Francisco, attempted to financially harm laundries run by Japanese Americans using four different tactics: picketing laundries, following customers back to their homes and intimidating them, preventing the laundries from purchasing equipment, and threatening public officials who refused to punish the laundries. They successfully ruined many Japanese laundries in this way. In the laundries run by league members, posters such as the following were hung on the walls:
- Are our boys and girls wrong
- In expecting you who make your living
- Exclusively off the white race
- To stop patronizing Jap laundries.
- And thereby assist your fellow men and women
- In maintaining the white man's standard in a white man's country?
- Anti-Jap Laundry League.
California Attorney General Ulysses S. Webb put great effort into enforcing laws against Asian ownership of property.
See also
References
- Industrial Relations in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1900-1918
- Report of the Immigration Commission, 1911. US Congress
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Categories:- 1908 establishments in California
- Anti-immigration politics in the United States
- Asian-American history
- Asian-American issues
- History of racism in the United States
- Japanese-American history
- Organizations established in 1908
- 20th century in San Francisco
- Laundry organizations
- History of racism in California
- Anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States