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. . Ca \ 1/5/24. baGe 9. GENZRAL JaPANESE SITUATION . | RQLITICAL: | ey on the part of these Landlords to counteract Made to action in-this direction airsady started by land owners in Placer County and to a simi movement by land owning companies Dear Stockton. Meetings between TBPanese » their attorneys and white landlords are apparently being held ‘io various portions of the State. | Reference is made in the Japanese newspapers to such meetings at Fresno, Stockton, San Jose, Vacaville, Florin, Watsonville and dse- where. At these meetings, the senior partner of the tirm of Elliott . x<+ : and Calden, for some years past general counsellors for the Japanese Association of America, is announced to speak and to advise with the Japanese farmere and their landlords. At such a meeting held in Fresno Deo. List, Mr. >a ; Elliott offered for consideration a form of contract under which the | Japanese, in addition to wages as laborers, would receive a bonus | based upon the net profits instead of upon the gross profits, as here+ tofore, declaring that such a contract was within the law. The Dis- trict Attotney of Fresno County, however, declared that this form of contract was so plainly an attempt to evade the intent and purpose of | the law, that he would prosecute any parties to such a contract which ooourred within his jurisdiction. In Los Angeles, a oonferenoce of warious pastors of Japaneses ohurches was held, aod epother is scheduled te take place 411 be present aeoretaries of Japanese ! mary, at which there wi | associations and oertain lawyers "to give information on 1 the Jand law - T—1 1