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Hostilities formerly kept simmering beneath the surface were laid bare when racial violence against California's Filipino workers erupted into open flame on October, 1929 in Exeter. The furor had burst open after Americans working the grape and fig harvest were replaced by the imported Filipinos hired to work for lesser wages. That night, an enraged mob invaded the workers' camp, burned down a barn and bludgeoned about 50 of the Philippine citizens. The Exeter rampage wasn't the first outrage, but from that point, anti-Filipino hatred spread, especially after Filipino men tried to join white social activities and escort white girls to public dances. Before long, an exclusion bill restricting Filipino Labor was being proposed in the U.S. Senate and the Congress.

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