Samuel Gompers was virulently against the immigration of Asians to America. As the leader of the American Federation of Labor, his main concern was labor conditions—specifically, labor conditions for white men. He believed that Chinese workers’ willingness to work for lower wages undermined the position of white workers. Gompers also claims that the willingness of Chinese to accept bad working conditions means that white people who want the same jobs as Chinese are forced to accept these same bad conditions. He later quotes James G. Blaine, who claimed that it is impossible for Asians to fit into the American population.

This claim is echoed in the second document by the Asian Exclusion League, who say that the current race problems between blacks and whites are bad enough, and that allowing Asians in America makes things worse. Th

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