The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-06-30
FOR LUR|NG /
LABORERS
CFrom Wednesdays Advertiser.)

VI ioih NtdHtSudg 3 AuNtTllStT.)
With the arrival of the steamship
Stanley Dollar yesterday afternoon
from Yokohama to take 500 Japanese
laborers to Tacoma and Seattle, came
also the arrest of several Japanese ho-
tel keepers I'm Honolulu. each charged
with violating Act SO of the Session
Laws of 1905. which forbids them from
inducing laborers to go beyond the
seas for the purpose OF obtaining EN-
ployment. The hotel keepers lacked
one essential to keep within the pale of
the law and that was to obtain licenses
as emigrant agents, the license fee for
which is $500 per annum.
The planters have had their eyes
opened to the denudation of the planta-
tions of their laborers by these hotel
keepers, for ii is said that If the
steamship Stanley Dollar is successful
in her present venture, local hotel
keepers and labor agents, combining
with Japanese agents on the mainland
will endeavor to induce fifteen thousand
Japs to leave Hawaii.
The warrants under which each of the
hotel keepers was arrested yesterday
read as follows:
THAT he Is informed, and on
such information has reason to believe,
and does so believe. that one Matsuda
did at Honolulu during three
weeks prior to and including the Goth
day of June, 1905, violate the provisions
of Act 81 of the Session Laws of 1906
in that he did at such time and place
induce laborers of the Territory of Ha-
wall to go beyond the limits of the
Territory of Hawaii for the purpose of
being employed, without first having
obtained license so TO do as by law
required"
Each of the arrested men put up
$1,000 bail for his release.
Act 81 provides: Section l. The
annual fee for a license for each emf
grant agent doing business shall be
$500"
Section provides that mo persons
shall engage in business as an emigrant
agent without first obtaining license
Issued in conformity with the provisions
hereof, and OF Chapter 102 or
who shall violate or fail to observe any
of the provisions hereof, shall be guilty
of misdemeanor, and upon conviction
shall be fined in a sum not less than the
annual fee and not more than twice the
annual fee herein provided for the
carrying on of such business
Section provides that IAN emigrant
agent shall be held to mean a pers on
engaged in hiring laborers in the Ter
ritory of Hawaii to be employed be-
yond the limits of the Territory, or
engage in inducing laborers in the Ter
ritory to go beyond the limits of the
Territory for the purpose Of being en-
ployed,"
There are now 500 laborers housed in
the various japanese hotels about town,
awaiting the departure Of the Stanley
Dollar. These men have been gather
ed from various plantations on all the
islands, under inducements made, it is
alleged, by runners for the various ho-
tells in Honolulu. One plantation alone
lost 200 men, because the runners told
such alluring tales of high wages in the
northwest. On this particular planta-
tion the Japanese were told that $50 a
month would be paid them. That made
them uneasy and there was a sudden
exodus to Honolulu.
An advertisement of Kikatake Tsu-
neyoshi, who is represented to have an
office at one of the hotels, tells the
Japs that they will be paid on the
coast as follows:
Railroad work, 81 to s135 per
day:
Canning work, 81 to SIPS per
day, with board;
Date OF application to 14th of
June;
Date of steamer departure,
June 10.
The agent further states:
$50 on acc cunt of passage fare
of sS2 will be paid by me; s12 in
cash required"
This means that of the $32 passenger
fare the laborer is to put up s12 cash,
in addition to which he has to pay his
hotel keeper from 81 to sS for six days
room rent up to June 10. However,
eight more days have elapsed, making
the Jap's hill about 81 more. Then
there is $40 to be deducted from the
mans wages after he starts working on
the coast. A portion of.this goes to the
hotel keepers and runners here for Sc
curing the man. There was consterna-
tion among the hotel men yesterday
when the arrests were made, for there
are about twersy of them amenable to
the law. so it is said in police circles.
The arrests. however, may have de-
terrent effect upon the Wholesale exodus
contemplated by the Japanese.
This is the first time the act has been
enforced.