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-4 . . @ op ao. to? Uy [ss re GENERAL JAPANESE sITUATION FARMERS FACE GRISIS IN JaP LABOR OUSTER. State Asked to Bring 800 Workers From Midweat to Replace Orientals Banned by Law. Plans to bring white workers into California from the Middle West to replace Japanese who have Aeen ousted from agricultural lends by the “crop contract" aneninent/of the anti-alien 4and law, recently upheld by the United States Supreme Court, were presented teday, Hov.29th, to George H. Hooke » Btate Agricultural dirsctor, by a committee of Northern Californis agriculturists. The majority of the middle westernefs, under this plan, will be used to supplant Japansse in Placer County, where the State law prohibits approximately 1,800 Orientals from oontinuing their prasctioe of ocoupying and cultivating iands owned by white men ona erop share basis. 0.K.tarnc®, Placer County horticultural commissioner, ¢+olé Heoks the county faces a serious labor shortage and declared action similer to that proposed must be taken in the inmediate futare He estimated that 800 white workers oan handie the farm labor heretofore done by 1,200 Japanese. Agricultural officials said that farmers in several sections of the state also contemplate steps in Keeping with the reo oently validated land law to assure future control of Californie lands by white workers. T1Llae