The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-02-23
SHARING.
Continued from First Pagel

that will terminate in villages COM
lposed of the homes of English-speak-
ing families. in place of the mixture
well called plantation quarters" No
one has dared TO make this move in the
past. and tentative efforts have proved
abortiye. because it has been well re-
lcognized that no class could be intro
lduced into this country upon the preva-
lent basis and under the social condi-
tons of agricultural labor that would
form permanent communities where
there would develop and flourish high
civilization. judged from the American
standard. l believe that this effort, if
carefully made through the methods of
proft-sharing. will insure 2 result sat
IisfactOry to the employers and the en-
ployee; that by this method sufficient
financial return will inure to labor TO
make possible the marginal "nest-egg."
without which, harassed by anxiety for
the future and the effort TO make both
ends meet" the truest social progress
becomes impossible; that a thrifty. in
telligent, Woodworking class, already
largely American citizens or well quail
fled for such citizenship, may be OBJ
tanned by these means: and finally that
a golden opportunity" now offers for
a successful prosecution of the scheme.
A careful examination to determine
the practicable phase of profit-sharing
with which to begin the work. will l
am confident, lead most estates to first
establish Notwithstanding and to per-
ceive that the progress of the Eva
plantation contract has been a logical
sequence. Few. if any sugar enter
prises in the Islands. lack the amplest
data from which they may determine
very closely the proportion of product
; (at say $50 toni equivalent TO the pro-
portion of production contributed by
the labor included in the proposition
] This. may then be discounted. if so de-
! sired, to assure a basis upon which to
: start, and from which increase may be
e made. and not decrease. Upon fully
: developed estates las Onomea, perhaps)
] additional study will probably be nee
t essary, inasmuch as it is safe to say
that four-fifths of the number of la
borers working under Eva contract
: viii accomplish the same results bet
ter than the full previous complement.
I 1t can readily be seen as well, in view
5 OF this fact, that any attempt at an i'm
: mediate and wholesale application of
proft-sharing to developed estate in
wolves the serious question of the prof
liable use, for all parties concerned. OF
superiority of labor, on the given es-
tate. For in the proportion that the
claims of its advocates for greater eff
,. perfiuity likewise exist on estates hav-
t ing no margin of expansion. Whatever
n plan or method may be adopted as besy
1 suited TO given cases, it is indispensa-
i BILE that direct relation shall be main
o tanned between the financial results and
s the quality of labor; in order that the
former, expressing, so far as is posi-
It BILE the equivalent of product realized
: shall be as it were the measure of the
e latter
e Having then determined what pri-
{ lportion of product takes the place OF
' wages, any subsequent advance OF
n change becomes simplified to the ques-
e ton of what constitutes a reasonable
: proportion of the fruits of industry
If creditable TO labor and capital respec-
e lively, the existing division having
n been well defined. This question is a,
old as industrial history, is as irrepres
2 sible as human nature, but we may
well hope, through these channels o.
effort viii speedily become Conflict
l. no longer. Any employer who is fully
} alive to the economic, industrial anC
social problems of the day may vel
" welcome every means that more dis
, tinctly defines the industrial relations
k Much has been said here first anc
p last on the danger of strikes. Let i
e be admitted at once that there is nj
lie specific for their prevention, known [,
n any of the old schools of economics
n The laboring classes who participant,
lie in strikes are in general neither fool
1t nor knaves. They are as well awar,
)f in a general way of the enormous losse
y involved when measured in coin a
Bradstreets. They know better thai
y anyone else, that the lions share of tn,
IS losses and all the misery resultant fall
sr to the lot of the strikers What bette,
/ proof then can be asked of the perma
i. nency and reality of their grievances
IS than the repetition and increase O
d strikes and the logged determination
; and obstinacy with which they NEE
n misery and with which they wal
g against hopeless odds. In no sens'
If should a strike be "as much to b.
:, dreaded as the cholera" for while they
\. are alike warnings of neglected duty
n the former proclaims to society it,
/ imperative duty to study out and recti
h fly the permanent injustice of man Il
IS man in social and industrial relations
Of and to that extent should be welcomed
re by every right-minded man as a call t.
Ie duty and reminder of wrongs to b.
IS righted They are a part of perhaps
the greatest industrial ferment in thu
e history of the century now closing
y They are the manifestations by which
Z the problem can be diagnosed and it,
IT remedy discovered.
Ie believe that there is no reason, il
it adopting a class of labor to which
IS strikes are Familiarity known, to appre
: bend that we shall be swamped b,
Is their development here if two precau
Al tions are taken. The first being as t.
h method, the profit sharing principl,