The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-04-29
The Labor Commissioners on Oahu.

We noted last week the tour of Hon. A. 5.
CleghOrn and Major J. Hay Wodehouse round
this Island. We have been favored by the
former gentleman with some interesting notes on
matters observed during the journey, on which
we found the following remarks.
At Kailua, the Commissioners visited n num-
Der of rice plantations. These are all Ill the
hands of Chinese and the labor employed on
them is wholly Chinese. On some of these the
quarters for the laborers were good on others
Indifferent. The impression which has, We be-
lieve prevailed in some quarters that the Chinese
who wo.k for the white planters are, in a
general way, better off than those who serve
their own countrymen is not borne out by any
thing the Commissioner have observed. As
mentioned last week the Chinese laborers on the
premises of Chinese employers were not found
disposed TO huddle together as they have to do
on some of our plantations, and the often re-
peated excuse that - the Chinese like it " is not
founded on fact. They prefer hunks ranged one
above another to open beds arranged, as white
labOrers Xix them, i'll rows along the floor OF the
dormitOry and that Is the way In which their
sleeping apartments are fitted mp on the planta-
tions of their own countrymen. The remark as to
the absence of crowding i'll the laborers' houses
on the plantations worked by Chinese must not,
however, be taken AZ of universal application.
Chinese employers, like those of other races, are
of various Compartments, and the Commissioner
found dirty and RECONSTRUCTED laborers quarters,
crowded beyond what the law allows, on some
plantations owned by Chinese.
Although the exceptions to Il proper attention
to the comfort and health of the laborers were
foundto be fewer on the average on Oahu than
on Kauai, the Commissioners saw some instances
of improper treatment which show how necessary
it is that we should have some Government
officer whose duty it should be to see that tlfc
southland by no means exacting-laws Il q
on our Statute Book are strictly pa" los
we hear of quarters for OutGIIrEa sp
being over-crowded, withor' Lat are WI
provided with closets - REGs-5ed. When vi
tector of these poems. thai he g islanders til
we are led TT, p'ar Lucas PA DC" md I'M al
that ~ +bot a Pro- 4
80 oLAu Oon,s was long ago aPpoIn'Iu =
nonire with whom the au an t
} n Protector has not lo int 1T was
inc FUSED it to be correcleG, ri this {
.juse, ana a" urged the creation oi -. - ,
loped oS 10 we're reioiced at Iuda at
'ihGe' All it, that its duties - where South
: ,uarterly visit to every W suspect that
Islanders are IL been begrudged anu o
the expense W. find the Commlss onotan of
a cons inch places as tnIse and within a
within the lW'9
short ride from town, s;oners were informed
At LaI.' z0n neople are Mt WORK - there
tha' .ract Iaborers on the - lowing for
no 80 ro srtesian wels-one h" enacted to be so
are tive aud the other was eAP0t 80 cinnamon
some time; u The Mormons lease 10 strongly
very ShoIus Tor rice but the leases lin Eonor
plots oil lnnt tbot any tenant caught % enn' ON the
wOrded- so I'M" tsrfering with the women This
or opium OF tnrfeils his holding at one nros
settlement bos the appearance OF lad of
settlement n soundations have oeeh % - bnn
porous. u IcuIated to hold aoo"t ;l;as q
new new ' peopIc. Almost all the ne t beir' wn. Thei
dreu P Poye separate houses Oh Hawoiians of thei
Lac IaiIn that amongst the tba deaths.
elders births decidedly eHceeu - rice plan
: flock the oinu there are IA number d Tbese Il
At narried on by Chinese ,b,t h
. atoms A! visited aud touhu ~ n,
l. Commas onarters appeared 10 O moved &C
,ot, laborers lint not Of the most "PPi0
erreng'~- son. Commissioners found
, ntantnancs J the P PSsp live in their .
by the >srSamohg the n 4 rssid
y purposes that the Br$>:.ys wits. much felt. ]
Id rule. Here surely was4 TO Homo
he assertion of State sove1gaty$sLD!n
already been asserted with arms ciI
1, and in vain-and so the representa-
of the wealth and intelligence of the pref
e, III th'lr uurepresented condition., thei
e a virtue of necessity, bore the on leae
sion with patience, until the ignorance mat
mismanagement of the creatures in cam
ar became so glaring, that the natural But