The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-01-07
CRACK IN
LABOR NUT
Situation Brightens For
the Planters.
ITALIANS ON MAUI.
Day Of the SulIen, Loafing Japanese
Passing With Coming Of
Whites.
Especial Correspondence

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| MAUI, Jan. 5.-The labor situation
begins to show. some signs of improve
lment, insomuch as beginning has
been made in introducing a different
class of workers than the Orientals
and one hopeful feature is that those
men who have come seem to be ami
mated by a feeling of friendliness to-
wards their employers, which is con-
|spicuoVsly absent in the Chinese and
Japanese. To give an instance of this:
At the New Years eve dance at Spreck-
elsville the lately arrived Italians came
over to the managers house, a distance
of several miles, spontaneously, and
rendered fine vocal serenade which
was much appreciated and appIauded
by the assembled guests.
The singing was remarkably good
and great musical treat, but the chief
part of the pleasure to be derived from
it lay in the fact that it seemed like
the dawn of a new era in that a
nearly allied race had taken the place
OF the alien Oriental, and that conse-
qEently much closer relations between
employers and employed seemed to be
foreshadowed. Are we not all breth-
rem? some one may inquire; but an af-
frmative reply is much easier when
instead of bowling mob of strikers
giving medley in the language of the
Mikado one meets with a band of sweet
singers rolling out the dulcet lyrics of
sunny Italy. Welcome, then, to every
one of TRANSFORMATIONS French, Portu-
guese, Porto Ricans and even to the
sable sons and daughters, too, of the
southern states of the Union
They are far more likely to grow UP
into desirable citizens than the herds of
aliens who used to arrive via Quaran-
tine Island and whose sole aim and
nope was to get as many American
dollars in as short period and by al
most any means as possible and then
carry themselves and their earnings
back to their own PARKWAY land. There
is abundant room in these Islands for
at least 10000 of these kindred peoples
and 1t is to be hoped that the planters,
having now put their hand to the pillow,
will not look back till they have ac-
complished at least SO much and they
can have the confidence that every
dollar so spent will increase an hum
dred fold.
The. Krajewsh crusher lately added
to the Spreckelsville mill is a great
success and this, added to the labor
saving devices for unloading the. cane
at the mills and the additional centrif-
ugals. has largely increased the sugar
capacity of the mill. Thus if labor suf-
hc1ent to keep the cutting and loading
department. in full swing can be secur-
ed, there is a chance of bumper
crop for 1901. Increased wages has
been no boon to the japanese. With
but few exceptions they either spend
It in riotous living on else they loaf
half the month, and absolutely no as
can be felt that any day the
whole plantation may be brought to a
standstill by some sudden caprice on
their part. All the mills on this Island
are now grinding, but few of them can
make more than half time on account
II the scarcity of laborers in the fields,
and not a moment should be lost in
'emedying this defect.