The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-11-21
DR.. Maxwell
On White Labor


tic legislation has been enacted to
prohibit the any white sugar production
preparatory legislation going bonuses been
paid sugar grown entirely by Commonwealth
Government investigating problem whether will be
continue these boune bonuses and this point Dr.
Walter Maxwell sugar expert the Queensland Government has
been asked for and submitted report Because of the reputation
good which Dr. Maxwell
the long gave director the Sugar Planters Expert
Station Of the light may shed
problem his report prove interest The report
Minister response questions by
that official in relation the further expedng maturing OF Fed
legislation placing sugar industry of Austria
liza a purely white-abor basis
In reply to the first question as to the further period which APP
pears the Maxwell the results
up the present. points that the number of white
growers 1921 and the acreage $685. 1903 the numbers
respectively 2o8 and 53 in they 2429 and 627 and
they POSI- lie to these notable
but he adds that the increase the numbers Of white
has confined mainly central southern growers and that
rate progress had tropical total
number of all Queensland the beginning of this
the number of white being 28 q cent OF
the whole The increases the number of white and the
do indication of the progress made by
white At the end of the third wohds of the whole
bacgrown The figures for Ioo5 are estimates but show that the
bonus be earned IS Of the whole The actual
ton that operation of the bonus about Onehrd OF
the sugar crop was produced v white labor and it is reported that
progress place wholly the temperate districts The
earlier registrations included farmers the smallest In the
following years of the larger followed suit and
which furnish two-d of the total sugar crop of Queensland still
conversion being the hands $50 large growers These
facts indicate that Sut data are not yet available to SHOW Tor what
period appears extend the bonus Less than five
will security induce the of
UP their estates and put up buildings Tor settlers But Maxwell adVo
the the bonus for years. the expiration Of
which period the situation will again under consideration
10 question should the bonus continue to be paid at ITS present
there for revon Dr. Maxwell refers his
report to Sir Edmund Barton in in which shown that the
white Fl per week. black labor
I'D White labor commanding higher compensation and
better provision for working The cost substituting white for col
ored labor is therefore increasing and it is this which confirming
the largest employers in holding to the use of aliens
Question Should reducing scale be adopted with the
inc that the OF acyenen has not vet been reached that
a Tedu seal lie I'M
Question Are there for revision of the rate Of
import duy? replied by Dr. Maxwell referring the relative
uncertainty the volume of homegrown supplies In good year
Australia supply enough consumption. year Of
drought half of the supply may He
tends that the of protection afforded the home industry
should be that which indispensable maintain
producer using modern Of production against the foreign
Queer He the duty of 70 and the American
duty about and concludes that the duty of TO
foreign appears be adequate for its purpose
To question What the oreseen effects OF increase of the
excise duy Dr. Maxwell that engaged almost
wholly by the larger plantations which have not found it to their in
teress to adopt white labor If increase OF excise with
Ponng increase OF the bonus be enacted probable that the
white production the large plantations southern dis
tcts which being demonstrated by small canegrowes that
white production practicable In the north the situation other
wise Neither the white people prepared settle upon the
duce the ground the popoonate of readiness
that obtains in southern districts The north is foeseen would
have continue grow further period
cred protection that would follow increase of excise would have
suspend production In the north in addition 28o7 kanas
there 1917 other aliens engaged the sugar industry
well holds that if increase in the excise induces white production
the SOUTH very considerable number Of cooed abo
deportation would be made available for north
He then shows that the climatic conditions superior
for sugagrowng SOUTH while the price oil
the southern districts 3D. and the central I3 Cd perl
ton, in the north it is u.s.
The final paragraph follows; "h undertaking the sub
stuton of white for coOred labor and tho placing tropical in
dusty upon the basis of white production constitutes great expert
The experiment its execution economic
conditions that had be consulted every step persons
engaged the industry factor they be induced
the experiment by giving full and unbiased trial may be
proposed to their cooperation by The paramount
demand of the is that shall succeed and this
the fullest details OF its nature OF its mode of operation and of its u
probable effects shall understood the greatest