Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-09-19

out more AsiatiC labor. She would bo
much better off II there was not Chi.
nese or japanese laborer in the coun.
try.
There are smart people at tho
head of the sugar industry and as
long as the Government will permit
Chinese and japanese and Koreans to
come here to labor they will insist
that they are necessary. Let the Gov.
the planters will turn their eyes in
other directions readily enough.
Not Preaching Ruin.
Il am not preaching the ruin OF the
sugar industry. hut we all contend
that no man shall be allowed to grow
rich at the cost and misery OF the
general people.
II want to say this: that. a. the re-.
suit OF the investigation Of the Sena.
torial Commission, Of your aIliiatiun
with the American Federation Of la.
Dor and. venture to hope OF my in.
yestigation here, there will before
very long. come change in labor con.
iitions here.
Changes Coming.
When the change comes there will
be some chance Of other whites com.
ing here and taking up small holdings
OF land. AS II Is now the large hold.
ers monopolize everything, the small
holder has no opportunity. The plant.
ers do not want small holders. Ha.
wall is divided into spheres of infu.
ence. In these various spheres the
small holders are dependent on the
large holders. They raise cane and
sell II to the large holders at the plan.
tation's price and that price is based
on the cost OF raising the sugar by
Asiatic labor.
The white man will not complete
with the Monaghan.
II believe that the land laws will be
changed and that some investigation
will be made Of certain immigration
matters here.
"On March 3. 1908. Congress passed
q law prohibiting the importation OF
alien laborers to the United States.
Since then some llS Koreans have
come here TO work on the plantations
The immigration officials allowed
them to come In. Later the law was
called TO their attention and they
claimed they knew nothing Of such a
law. Blissful ignorance!
I'VE will find out If 1t was ignorance
or something else!
The American Federation Is strong
enough to have Congress take up this
measure!
I'VE are going to see that the law Is
enforced!
I'VE are going to see that the guilty
parties are punished.
Il hope you here will be successful
in your work against the yellow race.
San Francisco Strike.
Most of you know about the great
strikes of 1901 In San Francisco. I'm
derneath those strikes was the idea
that to lose would have meant the
flooding of the Pacific Coast with
Asiatic labor. All the agencies OF the
trusts were combined to down the Ia
Dor unions and to take away their
power to resist the immigration OF
Chinese. We won a great victory, the
only great strike successful along
such general lines, The employers
unions are now things OF the past.
in San Francisco the fight against
the entertainments of Chinese labor Is
doing we'll We have closed up innu'
merable laundries and many garment
factories.
When we are through with MT
John Chinaman, we will tackle Mr.
Jap!
In the near future a demand will
be made upon Congress to provide for
the exclusion of the japanese and,
think, that demand will be needed .
There Is enough power In the labor
movement to demand and bring II
about
Labor Publications.
Federated labor has over one thou
sand monthly and weekly publications
in the United States with calculations
of 10000 and more, to voice the de
mands of the working man and cham
plon his cause.
Says the American Federationlst
OF September, referring to a report
from the Federation of Allied Trades
OF Hilo. in which the Asiatic invasion
Is spoken of in detail: is not this con
dItion of affairs enough to arouse the
Indignation of our fellow workers ey
erywhere, so that the conscience o
our Federal Congress may be quicken
ed to relieve situation so threaten
ing and dangerous? Or was the an
nexation OF the Hawaiian Islands un
dertaken to have them overrun witt
Asatics, driving the Caucasians from
the country, and then using Hawaii al
a bridge for the Introduction OF tn
Asiatics into the mainland of tn
United States to accomplish here tn
silent, insidious, yet absolute, degra
dalton of American workers. who ar