1907: Neighbors demand that four households of "coolies and Hindoos" be ejected from near 6th & Grayson and further west, with a "race conflict" looming
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1907: Neighbors demand that four households of "coolies and Hindoos" be ejected from near 6th & Grayson and further west, with a "race conflict" looming
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San Francisco Chronicle, December 5, 1907, page 13, "Fear Outbreak Against Hindoos"
"FEAR OUTBREAK AGAINST HINDOOS
Berkeley Police Keep a Close Watch to Prevent Race Conflict.
BERKELEY, December 4.
Close watch Is being kept by the police to prevent the outbreak of disturbance In West Berkeley as the result of tho opposition that has developed there against the three Hindoo colonies,
Chief Vollmer has declined to take action against the foreigners unless they violate the law, and this has not mitigated the strong feeling against the Orientals. Tho police will take all necessary steps to prevent any attack upon the foreigners.
The Hindoos are employees of varlous street-grading firms in this city and Oakland. They occupy three portable houses, recently erected in the neighborhood of Sixth and Grayson streets, while a fourth body of them is opening a lodging-house near the Southern Pacific tracks on Third street at Jones. Many of them dress in their native costume, though others have adopted the American garb,
Even this fact has not lessened the animosity of the Americans, and the police are fearful that open trouble will break out if the Hindoos persist in maintaining a local residence. Following the complaints to Chief Vollmer, he ordered an investigation, only to learn that the Orientals were law-abiding citizens. He thereupon declined to interfere, calming he had no jurisdiction in the matter."
