The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-21
4, F. JUDD
HIS MISSION
Brings a Small Party
of Filipino Test
l-aborers.

'"They call me A. Filipino Judd now,
I notice. said A F. Judd last night,
but after the deal 1 got in Manila l
am case hardened and anything they
call me here won't hurt"
Mr. Judd returned yesterday on the
8. S. Doric from the Philippines, where
he has spent the past eight months in
the interest of the Sugar Planters AS
sociation looking into the possibility of
recruiting labor in those islands for
Hawaii AS a sample of what the
Philippines has to offer, Mr.. Judd
brought with him fifteen young men
from the Ilocano tribe, inhabitants of
the northern portions of Luzon, one of
the best tribes of the many in the
group.
With Mr.. Judd and his mission the
Americans in Manila had considera BILE
fun at first, although they took things
more seriously after he had been there
some time and had secured the good
will of the Philippine Commission. A
favorite joke of the Manilans was to
take a run home for visit, intimating
in a gentle way that he had life's
contract in getting any Filipino ready
TO work. Another acquaintance asked
what Judd was trying to do. He was
told that he was there to engage three
huT dred Filipino families to come to
Hawaii to work for three years.
Poor fellow said the acquaint-
anee; doesn't he know that if he goes
back and goes to work himself that
he could get more done than if he did
get the three hundred families?''
All of which and a great deal more
MIR. Judd took snilingly.
81 consider that the Filipino as a
laborer has been greatly maligned,'' he
said when asked as to his opinion of
the Filipino after seeing him at first
hand. Whose who are knocking the
Filipinos are of two classes, those who
worked them under the old regime,
when all labor was practically forced
labor, and who do not know how to
treat the men under the present con-
ditfons, and those who refuse to take
into consideration any of the peculiar
itieS of the men and want them to be
the same ali at once as American Ia
torers. The whole thing with the Fill,
pino as far as 1 have been abie TO
learn is that If he is treated right he is
a frst-class laboreT. Possibly not as
good as the Chinaman or the Jap. but
steady, faithful and willing to do his
best for any boss for whom he has
liking.
'-f'!fe Filipino is peculiar in one re-
spect. inasmuch as he responds to good
treatment quickly and appreciates It,
Offers OF higher pay will not induce
him to leave place where he knows
that he is we'll treated and where his
employers show that they take an IN
terest in his welfare. L don't want to
overrate the Filipinos as laborers, as
can not say that I know much about
them. No one knows much about
them, in fact, but many of the en-
ployers in Luzon swear by them as Ia |
borers.
1.-THE Ilocanos, from which tribe tbs
fifteen l brought with me belong. have |
the reputation of always sticking 10
their agreements, and one incident in
connection with one of the fifteen goes |
tc show that that reputation is not all |
together undeserved. These men walked
from some distance back to the seaport, |
and one OF them, thinking of the fam |
lily he had left behind in tears, turned |
back l had been informed that they !
were coming and had SO notified the /
association here. The men knew ties |
and so did their wives evidently, Tor |
when the one who had turned back ar |
rived at his home he was told by his |
wife that as he had given his word to |
20 and his name had been sent on TO
America, it would be a disgrace If ne /
backed out then. So the husband hur-
ried on alone and overlook the other |
fourteen on the road
Il certainly had my work cut out /
for me in the Philippines. That is the
East. remember. There is nothing OF
the West there and it takes a new idea
q. Ions, time to germinate 1t took me |
nearly three months too. to get into |
touch with the Philippine Commission
1T was the hot season and all the Of
fees closed at noon, the Commission |
was up country and when they did
get back were rushed with important
work and able to give me very little
attention. Then a typhoon came and
tore things up generally and delayed
my work It was important that
secure the good viii of the Commits
sion. for the Planters Association could
not afford to incur the displeasure OF
the Washington authorities for any
thing they might do in the Philippines,
and I kept the Commission fully in
formed at all times as TO what L was
doing.
DO 1 consider my mission was
success Well, 1 do not know. / did
much and will report to the Associa-
tion tomorrow, leaving them to decide
as to the success or failure of my work.
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