The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-06-26
PLANTATION MANAGERS DECIDE
TO ACT.
Japanese Strikers Must Go to Work. or
Make Room for Laborers who will
End OF Soft Words.

High Sheriff Brown and Interpreter
Chester Dayle leave this afternoon on
the steamer Cladine for Spreckelsville,
to take part I'm the trials of the Japan
ese who assaulted some policemen. The
Japs who are to be tried made an at
tack upon a census taker and then at
tackled some officers who went to the
rescue. The case is regarded as an i'm
portant one as giving the Japs an op-
portunity to learn that they must show
more respect for the authority of the
officers.
A delegation of japanese laborers
came over from Maui by the last steam
er representing principally the laborers
of Wailuku plantation. They came
over to confer with the Japanese con-
sui and with the immigration com
panies, regarding the present situation.
Consul SaitO is away on the Island of
Kauai, and 1t is supposed the delega-
| tion is awaiting his return before visit
ing the immigration companies, as 1t
has not yet visited the latter.
1t is understood that the plantation
managers have about decided to tenn
porize no further with the Japanese.
They have increased the wages beyond
| the contract price, paying as high as
| $17 a month when the contract price is
only SIS a month. They have met every
demand of the laborers. Contracts have
] Deen given DaCk, lnOuBn lndJ is uOt
! necessary, as the law itself terminates
the contracts. And still the japanese
will not go to work, or If they do they
| quit on the slightest provocation,
though they still continue to occupy the
houses provided by the plantations, and
to receive the other benefits which were
a part of the contract price for their
| services.
The determination has been reached
| by some of the managers, it is said
that the thing must end. The japanese
must either go to work or leave the
plantations. They viii not be allowed
to refuse to work themselves and intim-
idate others who want to work, anC
generally by their presence demoralizt
the whole plantation force. Manager
Lowrie of Spreckelsville, has fixed g
day on which the men must either &c
to work or quit entirely and make room
for those who will work. Other plan
tation managers have decided to do the
same thing.
There have been no strikes at any o
the plantations on this Island except a
Heeia, which has been settled, but there
has been a good deal of unrest. From
Eva, Waialua, Oahu and Honolulu
plantations, delegations have been sen
to Honolulu to see the Japanese consu
and the Immigration companies. Thes,
interviews have been satisfactory, ant
no strikes have occurred.
On Kahuku it is reported that one o
the Japanese laborers, who consider
himself quit an orator, tried to stir VI
trouble. Fortunately, however, he i
without much influence among the lab
orers, and they decided before actinl
on his advice to send a delegation t,
the japanese consul. The result wa
. that the laborers did not strike.
The representatives of the Immie ra
tion companies think that the trouble
on Maui will quiet down and settl
themselves very soon now. They thinI
! that the soberer and more conservative
of the laborers understand their right
) now under the new order of things, an,
, that they see nothing can be game,
by striking or causing trouble.