Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-09-03
CITIZEN LABOR talk
WILL BE INDULGEn IN
AT BUILDERS MEETING
MATTERS or IMPORTANCE ARE
TO COME BEFORE EXCHANGE
AT MEETING THIS
EVENING.

EVENING.
The postponed meeting Of The Build.
ers and Traders Exchange will be held
this evening The committee which was
appointed four weeks ago to compile
statistics aud prepare a petition to Con.
sgCss rs requested by Delegate Reliant
anuolc will report q ringing document
brlstling with points aud supported By
an invlnciblo array OF figures.
When the report comes up for discus.
sion and such amendment A. the EN-
change may decide TO make, large
attendance Is expected rs vital inter.
csts are touched Those who have soeE
the proposed petition which the com.
miltCe will report. say Il is a stronger
document than the Exchange memorial
to the Senate subcommittee on ila-
waiiau AHIirs That document Great
cd a sensation.
The Merchants Association hns de.
cidcd 10 cooperate with the Exchange
In the matter Of the proposed transfer
Of the Hawaiian lighthouses TO Federal
control and support ana report from
thdt committee may come up.
The Muiliili road contract inycsIigo-
ton as To whether uOn-CitICus h0vc
been employed In violation OF I.o, IN
also be reported.
So much has been 49,. o.. l.
ten skilled labor question and ln .ow
OF the attempts Of ,..g. .. %
kin the mDyCmCll w.. .u. 10
materially assist end ........ .I-
ing the patronage Of d.. &c.,. m
merchants and deserving citizen skilled
labor. there are those who want the
Exchange TO take definite position in
concrete form.
The Exchange believes that every
citizen will be benefited II every citizen
will patrOnize citizen merchants and
citizen skilled labor in preference to
others. But 1t does not wish to en-
courage laziness among labor nor al
yocate the employment OF men who
do not do full days work for a full
days pay Nor does 1t wish to urge
labor men on the other hand to patron
ize those who for the sake ui saving 4
few pennies, give out work Ia non-cit
liens while at the same tine they cS-
pcct and are benefited by the patronage
OF citizens.
The Exchange stands midway be-
! tween the labor element. whose en-
| plCyors the members OF the Exchange
are aud the planting and mercantile
element, upon whose prosperity all the
members OF the Exchange depend m
directly for their livelihood,
The Exchange thinks the American
ization of Honolulu means business for
/ citizen real estate men, for citizen IN.
Eurancc meen. for citizn contractor
employing citizen skilled labor, all o!
! whom are Included In It's membership.
and prosperity for the citizen mer-
chant whose business success or fail
ure Immediately affects the building
business in all its ramifiCatiOns. But
q fears from past experience that she
GENERALIZATION Of this city means dee
crcasing ability OF citizen labor to buy
! Of citizen merchants, decreasing profits
tor citizen merchants and depression
! H. building, real estate and allied lines
which will eventually, II persisted IN
mean an Oriental colony on American
soil with so few citizens that they will
be lonesome and unable to support the
American standards Of educational
social and commercial life which have
been planted in Hawaii mel at such
cost OF time and treasure,
As to the plantations, the Exchange
feels and has said before Senator Nit
choll's Commission and TO immigration
Inspector General Sargent by word and
by registered vote that Oriental field
labor Is an absolute necessity. All the
Exchange asks in return for this sup
port is that they be kept in the field as
much as possible and not trained by
citizen plantation managers and cit
izen skilled labor to compete In Homo
lulu against their fellow citizens,
All together warm discussion Is cS'
IpeCted.