The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-23

thing else from you? AS long as you
boycott me on one article. / will not
buy a dollars worth out of your store.
think it is a combine to rob the peo-
! ple.'
Il told them, moreover. that nearly
every person in the city, rich and poor,
| had to plumb in connection with the
sewer system. told them that if they
went into the plumbing trust and would
not sell goods to outsiders, and would
do anything like that I would not buy
dollars worth of anything from them.
| Then l went to the Honolulu Iron
| Works to settle my bill there The
! bookkeeper asked me whether he should
open a private account with me out
side the firm. 1 told him not if it was
true what had heard as to their hav-
| ing gone in with the plumbing trust
and refusing to sell any more
plumbing goods. / told them if that
was true they could not open d private
account with me, and would get moth
ling from the firm.
THE bookkeeper said he knew moth
ing about it and told me to go into the
plumbing room, where 1 could talk with
the head man there. 1 went there and
asked whether they had joined the
plumbing combine. They said they had
to certain extent, and told me they
could not sell me any piping or any
thing in connection with plumbing
goods.
II asked them if they did not know
they were defying the laws OF the
country. They said, yes, they knew
that. still they would not agree to sell
me any goods.
My conversation at the Pacific
Hardware Company was with the head
tplumber Afterwards 1 saw Mr.. Pink
ham and asked him why he had COM
bined with the plumbers against the
whole city. and against his old custom
lers, to cinch the entire community. He
tsaid he had not combined with them,
land did not suppose there was going
to be any cinch on the city, and as soon
as he found the plumbers trust cinch-
ing the people he would drop out.
II said, Yes, you will drop out when
it's too late. When the city is in the
plumbers hands and no goods can be
gotten outside the dealers, you will be
left at the mercy OF the trust. You
viii have your stock on hand with no
one to buy it. That was the principal
conversation had with him.
Mr.. Pinkham said to me, What do
lyou think the plumbers asked of me?
kThey asked me not to give out prices to
the outsiders on plumbing goods.
positively refused and told them I
would never think of doing such
thing
Since then" said Mr.. High, Mr.,
'Pinkham's firm has refused to give out
prices in direct contraveEtion 10 what
he told me.
What do 1 consider a remedy for
this state of affairs? Well first, if the
people Of this community would petit
ton the Government to have the Board
of Health modify it's sanitary and
plumbing rules and regulations as far
tas practicable, it would, 1 am sure, have
a good effect. That would ease the
lmatter up considerably. AS long as the
Board of Health keeps on the restric-
uonS TO people DONG SnSht pluInplHS
for themselves and keeps the inspector
they have now, 1t keeps all men out OF
1.-THE plumbing business excepting union
men. I believe that IL a petition was
lcirculated the people would flock to
sign it by thousands"
Mr. High hired a plumber TO work rof
him by the day when he first opposed
the trust When he got through Win
a certain job the plumber charged him
lfor more time than he had worked. I
ftold him he had charged me for full
iday more time than he was entitled to-"
lsaid Mr.. High. He simply curled his
lip and said. oh. that's all right, you've
got TO get union plumbers
well, 1 got a non-union plumber to
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