Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-01-05

4 Joice from Eohold.
q, the frs, Tbur.d,v q the new y,ar the wortins
Union will discuss The best method Of gettnl
nd q Chinese. and 50 giving foreign and NATIVE
aborers a chance to live on the Hawaiian Islands
SafsSsffy Pfrti, Docruftrr Ish.
One is tempted on reading the above and
various items that came out in connection will
the destitute women in the German loboi
case, to ask what kind Of men the union Is
composed Of and Tor whom the above sop is
intended. The writer IS prejudiccd against
such unions because. Judging from their speech
and their works, the controlling element
in them seems to he devoid OF good Judgment,
and often wilmly deaf to sound reasoning,
being guided. rather by blind passion and per
sonal interests.
The native Hawaiian has always been in de
mand, and can, as a rule, obtain all the wages
he is worth wages tina, in two days work
will supply him with all that he can eat and
drink during the week. This for the common
day laborer as Ne is to be found ON the planta
tons As a wharf hand, OF in some Of III,
higher positions about a sugar mill OF planta
ton, or by doing piece work or stint WORK
tukupau), when, Il he chooses, he can carr
one and half to two OF more days wages il
one, and get through in regular working hours
he easily earns two times as much and olteI
more. 1t is because there are too few Of thu
natives that the Chinaman has become q sieri
necessity.
IT is true the native is willing to work hare
for fourto six hours il be can hayelhc rest of thu
day TO himself, but he grinds and chaies unde
regular days work of even nine hours, and
with a glazing sun three hours high in the sky
he will grumbe at the lateness of the hour
1t is "pocleele or dark. On coming t,
work after an absence of several days he vii
ask for an ukupau so as to get through earl!
and attend to some alleged pilkia. II he Sc
cures it, it becomes his overseer to look sharl
after him lest he slight the work and dodg
away unseen. II i, is denied him, he will sull
and expend more ingenuity in devising mean
for Stacking speed than would have served Il
complete good days work, and a, quitting
time will have accomplished perhaps a half.
The exceptions only prove the rule, ant
that there are exceptions, some noble eScep
tons, | am only too glad to admit. But Il
shorten the story When, as a free agent, tn
native will not work more than two OF tire
days in the week, or enough TO get his fish an'
poland this, too, when he knows his EN-
ployer is in urgent need of his services-an,
as a contracted laborer he requires the arm
work and punch him up to it; can it not eas
be seen that he loses value ard importance il
the eye of any employer of labor. The native
as a rule--cannot he depended on for an
regular work, and it is sheer nonsense to tai
OF devising ways by which he may "have
chance to live. The man who, with eye
open can entertain such nonsense, needs (
go to the brain factory TO be repaired.
Tie Chinaman must stay, unless tn
Worl<ingmen's Union will fill the gap and d,
wise ways by which the planter may have
chance to live on the Hawaiian Islands,
while he is employing "whitc labor" that
regulated by the same union on wages tn:
will absorb all the capital and interest, prof
and discount of the business. The advent
the Chnaman in this country was opportun,
and was the result of necessity. He was ser
for and he came. He has clans and union
and this fact ought TO give him favor in III
eyes OF the Workingmen's Union as being $
far of like feather with themselves. II
strikes occasionally during work hours, an
undoubtedly has some bad characters in h
union, but he has proved himself steady, sobe
regular in attendance npon his 7oork. Even
a day aborer he k,'07ts that, should he choose
be otherwise, his employer would be perfect
helpless in the matter. And he is as faithful /;
any class OF laborers that can be found. He
sober, frugal, industrious and saving. II
works for it, which is far more than can
said OF the native who works by his side.
his immigration TO the country he needs, {,
the country's good, to be regulated and T,
strained. In numbers he should be offset /
a like or greater number of other races, an
naturally from white mans point of view,
must not be allowed to secure the reins
government, even If he did no worse than Il
present incumbents. And that is all.
thinks one who in the beginning was prejudice
agains, Cinnamon, but believes in a fair chan,
for all and not in class legislation.
AMERIco-liAwAITAN.
Kohala, December 81, 1858.