The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-02-27
vent grievances from arising on
either side:
BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION.

'OA' iASNahSSS rum arising Oh
either side:
BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION.
Honolulu, February 26, 1855.
Suggestions as to the management
of japanese contract servants and
laborers:
l. The Japanese landed here from
the City of Toxic are all tenant
| farmers, and have not heretofore been
| laborers in the ordinary sense of the
word. The same system of tenant
farming as that in vogue in Germany
and in the United Kingdom exists in
Japan. Most of these men have had
their farm-hOldings in their families
for over $50 years, originally given to
| their fOrefathers as rewards for mill
tary services during the Revolution
of 1920. These holdings they trans
ferred, when leaving Japan, to their
younger brothers, or to other mem
bers of their families, to be held for
them in trust. If they like Hawaii,
and find themselves we'll treated,
their intention is to remain here
with their families. Men of this
stamp-and the same may be said of
the Japanese in general-may be "led
by silken thread" of kindness but
they are not to be driven. The planter
who treats them as he would our
American farmer, or English tenant
farmer, will find that during rains or
at other times of emergency, they
will work many hours beyond the
contract time, if it should be asked of
them, without extra compensation
and they will be found willing to
repair his house or their own quarters
in extra hours for anyone they like
(beIng, almost all of them, practical,
ordinary carpenters). Kind words
and deeds, and kindness to their chill
dren, will bring out that loyalty
which is inherent in the Japanese
tenant-farmer.
2. QUARTERS.-In rooms of the size
required by the Hawaiian Statute
law, two Japanese families Consist
ing of two men and two women, with
their children), or four single men,
can live comfortably; or they will be
willing to live all together in one or
two large rooms of proportionate size.
They do not require any furniture or
beds or bedding but if they are given
some boards they will make shelves
or bureaus for their clothes.
8. CooKING.-Each family, or two
single men, will require a space of
four feet square for cooking. This
must be under wooden shed, pro-
tected on the rainy side from the
weather. They have their own cook
ing utensils. They will scoop out
spaces in the ground for cooking, and
should have some stones provided for
them. They will also require fire.
wood.
4. Hot WATER FOR BATHING.-A
supply of ten (1O) gallons for each
family, or five ~ gallons each for
single men, should be provided. If
iron tanks, firewood and cold water
are furnished near their quarters,
| they will heat the water themselves.
5. LAND FOR VEGETABLE GAR
| DENS.-The farmers from Hiroshima
Ken and Yamagushi Ken, in all $50
men and Ill women, have agreed to
work thirty minutes day more than
the contract time if they are given
by their employers one-fifth Q-5thJ
of an acre to each man or woman,
with seeds, to plant vegetable gar
dens No doubt the remaining 1863
men and 81 women will be willing to
do the same.
6. LUNAS OR FOREMEN.- The en-
ployment of japanese as lunas over
their fellow countrymen and women
is recommended, and the dispensing
with all white men or natives in that
capacity. The Japanese have elected
for themselves one head man for each
company of from ten to twenty-five.
Those so elected are perfectly COM
petent to act as lunas or foremen, are
honorable and trustworthy, and while
overlooking the others will work
themselves. requiring no extra COM
pensation unless the employer sees it
desirable to give it.