The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1894-09-14

| twenty-sixth lot. Up to the close
of the period, no communication
has been received from him as to
whether the laborers would be for
warded or not.
Ninety-fve Chinese were admit
ted under the auspices of the Board
during this period. These men, in
the first instance, were arrested for
attempting to come into the coun-
try on fraudulent passports, but
were eventually allowed by the
Board to ship under the law of
1892. There are on file, applica-
tions for 772 Chinese laborers, all
for rice plantations.
The following letter is self-ex-
planatory, as showing the condi-
ton of the labor market at the
close of the period:
HONOLULU, January 9th, 1894.
HIS EXCELLENCY ]. A. KING, Minis
ter of Interior and President Board
of Immigration.
SIR:-Referring to the letter, which
the undersigned, as a committee ap-
pointed by the Planters Labor and
Supply Company, addressed Your Ex-
cellency, under date of December 9th,
in regard to the matter of allowing
Chinese laborers to be admitted to
these islands, as provided for under
the laws of 1892, we would now re-
spectfully submit the following addi
tional particulars for your considera-
ton on this subject, and which we
trust will be sufficient to convince the
Hawaiian Government of the neces-
sity of immediate action on it's part
towards assisting in keeping up the
supply of proper labor necessary for
the successful carrying on of the chief
industries of the country.
At the present time, about the only
contract labor which the plantations
have to depend on, is the Japanese,
and from figures furnished by the
Board of Immigration, we find that of
this nationality, contracts will expire
as follows:
For six months ending July LIST,
1894, men, 1897; women, 1886; during
the year 1895, men, 2754, women, 81.
In other words. during 1894 and 1895,
over 1000 men and 1900 women will be
freed from their labor obligations to
the plantations, the majority of whom
will either return home, or find other
occupations than that of plantation
laborers.
From what the Painters Labor and
Supply Company can CLEAN from those
parties most interested in furnishing
the supplies from Japan, we are given
to understand that further shipments
from that quarter will PROBABLY be
postponed until certain questions have
been settled between the two Govern
ments, bearing on the existing labor
convention, and on other political
points. Should this be the case, no
further orders will be forwarded for
the present, for japanese contract la
Dor, and in the meantime, the date of
expiry of the contracts mentioned
above, is fast approaching.
1t is to be hoped that in due time
the Japanese immigration will be
again resumed, as they proved salts
factory class of labor, especially when
mixed with other .nationalities on
plantation; but we must call the at
tention of Your Excellency to the fact
that when the planter is entirely re-
stricted to Japanese for his labor, en-
ploying, as many of them do, on one
estate, 800 to 1000 men, that they be-
come menace, showing disposition
to get exacting and quarrelsome, and
if disposed to make a strike could pro-
duce results very disastrous to the
plantation on which they are en-
ployed.
In view of the facts, therefore, that
there is some degree of uncertainty as
to further supply of labor being pro-
cured Immediately from Japan, and
that even should this immigration be
that single nationality of
labor on a plantation is Objectionable,
we would respectfully petition Your
Excellency to consider well the advis
ability of allowing Chinese labor to be
as provided for by the last
We have the honor to be Your Ex-
cellency's Obedient servants,
(Signed) III. f. GLADE,
F. NJ. SwANZY,
Committee appointed by the P. l..
& s. Co.