Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-03-28
BbRRT0RD SUCCESSOR MARCON WIRELESS STATION
IS FROM ,m,mm FOR TRANSATLANTIC WORK
IS FROM RANKS OF The
POOR LAB IRING CLASS
WAS ONCE IN POOR HoUsE-REP.
RESENTATivE OF LABoR-HE
STiRs UP FEAR OF
THE WEALTHY.

Sudllts DeIesiOIu as ulelupcI lOi Idi-
lament for the woolwich division OF
London took place March IL and re-
} suited In u majority of 1929 for tho
Labor candidate, Williams Crooks,
, over Godfrey Drage, the Unionist can
didate. Crooks is County Councillor
and is somewhat Of the John Burns
type.
Lord Charles Be- esfOrd's retirement
fTom Parliament is due to mis- appoint
lHent TO the mead OF the channel squad
ron.
Crooks Is working cooper, so years
old. HIS father dieu when he was .
years OF age, and he, with his mother,
prothels and sisters, was ordered into
the Poplar poorhouse, where ne stayed
some months. He worked at odd Jobs
until he was IA years of age, when he
was apprenticed to cooper. AS late
as 1873 he tramped from London TO
Liverpool in search OF work. He was
then in the greatest poverty, but be-
tore thai he had engaged actively in
trade agitation.
lie worked hard for the lockers in
the great dock strike. and became
chairman OF the Poplar board OF
guardians and other local bodies. Lord
Rosebery, Right Honorable Henry
Chaplin, formerly president of tho
Doard Of Agriculture; Walter Long,
president of the Local Government
Board, and others have long been i'm.
pressed by his ability. lie is u ready
speaker and an interchangeable worker.
His unsuccessful opponent, Godfrey
Drage, has been prominent in labor
questions. lie was yicc-prcsidcnt OF
the International Congress Oh Acct
dents. Milan. 1894; International Con
gross on Housing OF Working Glasses,
Brussels, 1897. and International Con-
gress on Poor Law and Charity, Paris,
1900, and was Conservative member OF
Parliament from Derby, 1896 to 1900.
He has written many works on labor
, questions.
Some OF the Conservative papers In
, their editorials express alarm ut the
, growing power of the labor vote as
shown by the result Of the Woolwich
: election. III means says the Times,
that the specter that has hypnotizcd
, the continental Governments has
, shown itself at last among ourselves.
The country Is urged by the Con-
, servative press to take warning and
, oppose those tendencies which In the
; United States and on the continent OF
Europe have led TO .lamentable con-
. flicts between the executive authority
/ and the working classes.
+ II IT aGa n II asa u m u IT
streets. There are scores OF haIG.naK.
ed men trotting from the cars TO the
, warehouses with great bags on their
heads and scores of negro women
down on their knees sweeping up the
. coffee out of the cobblestone streets
where IL has dropped in order that they
may wash II and sell II again. Each
, of these street cleaners has a sieve, in
4. which she puts the coffee beans ms she
picks them up. shaking out the dirt rs
. she works. ! am told that many Of
J, the women make good living by
gathering these stray coffee beans.
. Stop moment and watch the men
!, az they unload the coffee. Every bag
: is tested before II is taken into the
y warehouse. The tester has Il little Tin
pipe as big around as broomstick,
with a sharp point at the end. lie Jabs
this into bag. and In II brings out 4
handful OF coffee. A glance At the
beans tells whether they are accord
ing TO samples. and II not. the rest OF
the load is carefully watched.
Notice how the men carry the great
bags on their heads. Each bag weighs
1872 pounds. but they stand straight up
under them and walk off as briskly as
though they were carrying feathers.
Bagsing Of Coffee.
But let Ms follow them INTO the ware
house. The carload which Is now be-
ing handled is In all sorts of bags and
q has to be repacked for shipping. We
walk through long aises with bags oI
coffee piled on each side from the floor
TO the ceiling and come lnta n hall
where the floor Is covered with great
piles OF green coffee beans.
At each pile are dozen half-naked
negroes In their bare feet. They are
scooping up the coffee In bowls much
like, a bread bowl and pouring II into
the bags. We hear the scratch, scratch
scratch Of the bowls as they touch thu
floor, varied by the sound OF the laugh
ter OF the men at work. Now they burst
out In a song, keeping time with theil
scoops as they sing. AS soon as bal
is filled 1t is gagged of to a pair o
scales to be weighed. II is next handed
over to the sewers. who sew up III
mouth. leaving enough vacant spac
at the top that 1t may pack well in tn
steamer.
In other factories the bagginG is dom
by machinery. and In all the work goe
on In a business-like way.
Each Of the big American establish
ments Of Rio handles vast amounts q
= coffee In year It's manager mus
have good business ability and be
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