The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-02
NO LABOR
UNION THIS
Organization to Benefit
japanese Working
| Classes.

ing organized mere he meetings VIII
continue for the remainder of the week
when the organization will be placed
on permanent footing.
The delegates were called together
at the instance of Consul General Mkt
Saito, who will be the permanent pres
ident the office in future descending to
his successors as Consul. The first
meeting was held on November 30 on
Nuuanu street above Vineyard. Mr..
Saito was chosen temporary chairman.
Mr.. C. Shioda was elected chairman,
and Mr.. Y. Nagai, vice chairman, at
yesterdays meeting. Mr.. Saito made
an address at the opening of the meet
ing. His address, in part, was TO the
effect that the reason he had called the
convention was to put the Association
on permanent basis. The delegates
assembled represented all of the Jap
anese in the Islands, numbering Co.
900 persons.
| 'It is not a labor union" Mr.. Ozawa
said. THE organization takes in ev-
1 erything relative to the behavior and
welfare of the Japanese working pop
ulation of Hawaii, which you know
numbers about $4,000.
1.-THE idea is to take some of the bur-
den of looking after our people off the
| Consul. This is made clear by the
/ Consuls letter to the Planters Asso-
citation, which he wishes the Advertiser
/ to publish in full. The Association is
not to create, but to prevent trouble.
If any trouble should arise between en-
| ployers and employees, it is the object
of the organization to get between them
and settle the differences anicably.
| Consul Mkt Saito will be the per-
manent president and moving spirit of
| the Association. The district auXili-
| aries will be composed of merchants,
doctors and some representative work
ingmen.
1.-THE Consul and those assisting in
the movement believe that it is not
to the interest of Japanese laborers
to leave here for the Coast. An effort
will be made to keep the Japanese
here, besides protecting their interests
in legitimate ways-for instance, with
lregard to the Japanese hack law, which
We regard as an injustice
Following is the Consuls letter re-
ferred to by Mr.. Ozawa:
The Hawaiian Sugar Planters Asso-
citation, Honolulu. T. H.
Gentlemen: = Accompanying this
note, kindly find a rough draught OF
a document enbodying the objects OF
a society among the Japanese of the
| iClopdc ,arin Of -rbi oh, mill
explain themselves.
ITO prevent any misunderstanding
on your part, or on the part of plan
tation managers, as to the motives un.
DERIVING a proposition recently advan-
ced to consolidate the japanese
throughout the Islands into a mutual
protective society, we beg now to pre-
sent respectfully for your considera-
ton the following facts:
when the Japanese laborers We're
first introduced into this country there
were provided for them several official
Inspectors. These inspectors played
an important part in settling trouble
among the Japanese as we'll as mis-
understandings between planters and
laborers. This system worked admir-
ably but unfortunately passed into dis
use. We are cognizant" of the fact
that most of these Iaborers are in con-
slant need of attention and advice.
They are tractable under the guidance
of good leader, and equally amenable
fto tina control of an unscrupulous
schemer. Slight provocations that
once would have passed unnoticed are
now sufficient to cause lahorer to de-
sert his plantation.
Comparatively high wages offered
by California fruit growers have caused
a great commotion among these simple
minded people. Without ascertaining
how long period such rate of wages
lasts, they hastily conclude to leave
the Islands and besiege steamship of
fees in their attempts to secure trans
portation, some of their even paying
for first class passage. So it has come
about that, instead of being character
lied for steady application to work
japanese laborers have of late become
more for uneasy shifting from one
place to another.
1t is certainly against the idea of
the Japanese government to have an
exodus of the japanese from this coun-
try to the mainland. The passports
are marked expressly for Hawaii, and
if the matter could be properly pre-
scented to those starting out for the
Coast, their respect for the home gov
eminent, apart from other arguments,
would probably be enough to arrest
their departure.
80, it is the desire of this society
to use a persuasive influence over the
laborers, to give them such correct in
formation that they may be induced
to stay at work steadily on the plan
tations and not go to an uncertainty
on the mainland.
THE main purpose of the japanese
League of Hawaii, so far as it may
interest you, are as follows;
I'D In conjunction with the repre-
lsentatives of the japanese government
to restrict the emigration of japanese
to the States.
"t2) To instil into the laborers an
attachment to the locality where they
al,