The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-03-08
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On LABOR
POLICY
Hackfeld Plantations to
Back Course OF the
Administrat

II have just been informed by Mr..
J. F. Hackfeld and Mr.. w. Pfoten-
hauer that the firm of H. Hackfeld &
Co. is in thorough accord with the ad-
IIackfeld has congratulated US upon
the policy and expressed the belief that
we are on the right track" said Act
ing Governor Atkinson yesterday after
the two gentlemen named had left his
Office. j.
The consultation between the Gov
ernor and the representatives of the
big Hackfeld firm was a somewhat ex-
tended one. 1t was most amicably
conducted, moreover, on both sides.
Mr.. Hackfeld and Mr.. Pfotenhauer
called on Acting Governor Atkinson
to express their earnest sympathy
with the policy Of securing government
labor, to indicate their purpose to aid
the movement in every way that they
could, and to ask for frst-hand infor-
nation as to the design and scope of
the new plans.
Mr.. Hackfeld, when the desired in
formation had been obtained, said that
he believed in giving holdings of land
to laborers on the plantations, and
that men had already been instructed
by his firm to prepare the Hackfeld
plantations to get into line with the
movement, listing the lands that were
available for this purpose and prepar-
ing plans for the proposed dwellings,
tor the laborers.
The Hackfelds, it is said by Acting
Governor Atkinson. were perfectly
willing to cancel leases for government
lands held by their plantations in the
interest of the laborerS, and to meet
the desires of the government as near
ly as might be in order that they
might be given their share of the pro-
posed laborers. OF course it is under
stood by the plantation that the Board
OF immigration has no control of the
new settlers after they get here, in the
way, that IS, u placing tnem on IS
pecial plantations, but the Hackfelds
will be prepared to offer as good terms
to laborers are can be offered by any
other plantations, and the government
on it's part will see that this IS thor
oughly understood by the settlers.
OF course Mr.. Hackfeld wanted to
know that there was no spirit of con-
fiscation in the plan, asking whether
the plantations would be expected to
surrender lands not owned by the gov
He was told by Acting Gov
ernor Atkinson that the government
was as anxious to protect the planters
and the sugar interests q s the Planters
themselves were. The whole purpose |
of the government is to protect and |
foster the sugar industry by procuring !
laborers who will attach themselves to |
The land and stay on it. With this |
understanding. the represen- !
-atives of the big firm took their |
cave.
1t is said, incidentally to the labor |
that Col Spalding of Kauai |
S now about the happiest man in Ha
vaii in contemplation of the fact that
he has got the Molokans-a lot of set
led laborers who will stay on Kappa.
while the labor he moved off to make
'oom for them is hard at work on
ieighboring lands, all raising cane at
| profit for the Makee Sugar Com
1any.
Only two of the big sugar firms re-
main out of the deal to put the labor
rs on the land, or rather have not in
Heated their sympathy with the move
nent and their purpose to come in.
these are the firms of Brewer & Co.
nd Castle & Cooke