TABLE XI. Oriental Employment Agencies in San Francisco
(Showing Number of Persons Furnished Position in Various Occupa-
tions and their Wages during Month of April, 1910.)

 

 

 

 

 

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Bedmakers........... 16 «14 Be eh ail wud cctheaal ect ecolccs Lear caer Canon san ace
ee el Ts) 283) 3B) el... 1} 1/26|17/25)11) 7| 6
_ Help, kitchen ...... 24, 22 aN abe ool ch eh Bis 2| 8/10} 4)...]...]...
Help, laundry ...... 11 7 BA J) ccsbadstiere bealeerl re eee eee
_ House servants.....| 43 37 Bes leAl Sc. aftsephers 3]11/21) 5)...)...]... 1
_ Pantrymen........... aS Bi aah sab sxe] .vad|foaebeacbodebeesl Saaieoe beeen ean nae
SOELOTS ............... 11 9 Dil cash oxo) <sa] sacllésctooct ces hens base apn eeeaanaes
_ School boys......... 21; 20 Sl Ae -beaak<.- 2) 2) 2) 2) 4] 1)...)..)..)...
Simaiters............... 81} 21) 10)/...) af.) iff.) taal 8) 4) 2) fe
' GRIM .......... 261! 205) 56|| 8} 4| 6)...|| 2] 2] 6|18|88/50/46/16| 8] 7

Compiled from the tables in the Fourteenth Biennial Report of State
Bureau of Labor, pp. 324-325.

   
  
    
  

On the basis of these statistics, we see that the majority of the
Orientals are earning somewhere between $35 and $45 per
‘month, and therefore, more than the female whites engaged in
similar occupations. The wages paid to Japanese domestics have
since considerably risen.?

_ Lastly, as to the Japanese employed by railroad companies.
We have no available data concerning Japanese railroad hands
in this State. But we may learn their status indirectly through
a knowledge of numerous Japanese employed by the Central
Pacific, the Western Pacific, and the Salt Lake and San Pedro
in Nevada and Utah.

“From 1895, when they were first employed, until 1901, the
Japanese were the most numerous of the races employed as
laborers. They were then displaced by Greeks at a higher wage,
jut were later re-employed at a lower wage than that paid to the

1See also Millis, Ibid., p. 54.

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