HIS263Y1 Lecture : Lecture 24-Jan 17.docx
Document Summary
Asiatic exclusion league- first organized in the first decade of the 1900 s organized in bc-a large influential movement that brought together a whole diverse range of social groups. The key force that mended this league were the local trade unions-they feared economic competition and the moral/cultural effect of asian immigration. Small business/middle class professionals also contributed to this movement. In 1907 the ael organized large displays of resistance against asian immigrants. An act to prevent the employment of female labour in certain capacities- the white woman s labour. Law (saskatchewan, 1912)-this act combined both economic and moral concerns. This act outlawed asian employers from employing white women. Thus on the one hand-there is economic competition-and on the other hand-the fear that white women would engaged in sexual immorality is brought within these immigrant communities. Frank oliver s hostility-mirrored general discriminatory trends of the general population. Some of those in society were empathetic/ sympathetic- but most were hostile.
