The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-06-28
FOR LURING
LABORERS
japanese Hotel Keepers
Violate the
Law.

| 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 in 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 it 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 20th
day of June, 1905, violate the provisions
of Act 81 of the Session Laws of 1865
in that he did at such time and place
induce laborers of the Territory of Ha-
waii to go beyond the limits of the
Territory of Hawaii for the purpose of
being employed. without first having
obtained a 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 1. The
annual fee for a license for each emil
grant agent doing business shall be
$500"
Section 8 provides that mo persons
shall engage in business as an enigrant
agent without first obtaining a license
sued 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 sum not less than the /
annual fee and not more than twice the {
annual fee herein provided for the !
on of such business
Section 4 provides that IAN emigrant |
agent shall be held to mean a person
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-
1Ioyed"
There are now 500 laborers housed in
he various japanese hotels about town,
waiting the departure of the Stanley
Dollar These men have been gather
I'd from various plantations on all the
under inducements made, it is
.lleged, by runners for the various ho-
els in Honolulu. One plantation alone
ost 200 men, because the runners told
such alIuring tales of high wages in the
northwest. On this particular planta-
ion the Japanese We're told that $50
month would be paid them. That made
hem uneasy and there was sudden
xodus to Honolulu.
An advertisement of Kikatake Tsu-
Ieyoshi, who is represented to have an
fice at one of the hotels, tells the
-aps that they will be paid on the
oast as follows:
Railroad work, 81 to s1.S5 per
day;
Canning work, 81 to s1.25 per
day, with board;
Date of application to 14th OF
June; i
Date of steamer departure, ]
June 10.
The agent further states: s
"S20 on account of passage fare {
of $32 will be paid by me; S12 in
cash required"
This means that of the S32 passenger
are the laborer is to put up s12 cash,
n addition to which he has to pay his
otel keeper from 81 to SO for six days (
com rent up to June 19. However, {
light more days have elapsed, making
he Japs bill about 81 more. Then
here is $40 to be deducted from the
,aD,s wages after he starts working on q
ne coast A portion of this goes to the
otel keepers and runners here for Sc
uring the man. There was consterna- T
on among the hotel men yesterday d
hen the arrests were made, for there T
re about twenty of them amenaole 10 |.
,e law. so it is said in police circles I
he arrests, however, may have de- /
aren't effect upon the wholesale exodus
by the japanese. @
This is the first time the act has peeh