The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-23
STRIKE
BROUGHT TO AN
END YESTERDAY
Oahu Sugar Company Accedes to
Minor Demands and Japs Save
Face and Give In.

i and on level ground seventy-fve (75,
feet as at Eva.
II. That as to clearing of railroads
/ section men be instructed to keep same
in good order as at Aiea and other
| plantations.
| IS. That the manager of the OahT
| Sugar Company will recommend to tn,
| Planters Association at its next meet
/ ing the advisab bility of making the
penalty for non-stripping of cane ten
| dollars $4,000 per acre, instead OF
, fifteen, and that some reasonable sum
be paid contractors per ton for good
| cane taken from short ratoon cane.
With three exceptions, the conditions
| called for by the above demands eX-
listed on the plantation previous to the
strike. Demand 6 is something new,
which is to be punched daily and over
time to be endorsed on same, being the
system now in use at Aiea and other
plantations.
Demand II stipulates that the whis-
tie be blown at IL a. m. and at 11:30
a. m. and 4:30 p. m. This will be
something new but there is no reason
why it should not be done if the labor
ers SO desire it.
The most important of the above list
of demands is No. Is, stipulating that
ton from weight of cars as respects
"hapai cane men. Manager Bull was
unable to promise anything definite in
this regard until the matter has been
by the other plantations.
UNsATISFIED DEMANDS.
The original demands of the strikers,
which have not been entertained, make
up the following formidable list:
/. Discharge of the plantation ply
sician and hospital nurses.
2. Discharge of one section overseer. |
3. Discharge of one field luna.
4. The plantation ito take back two |
japanese laborers discharged on Jan. |
Is. as being troublesome characters.
s. The cultivation contractors to re-
ceive 80 cents per ton of cane for the
present crop instead of S5 cents as per
a agreement. (The latter rate is COM
mon on all plantations and was volun-
tarily raised by all plantations from
so cents to 50 cents last year)
6. That plant and long ratoon cane
be harvested within eighteen months
and if not taken off in eighteen months
higher rates to be demanded. Short
ratoons to be harvested within four
teen months or a higher rate de-
manded.
I. The rates for stripping contracts
to be decided by the field contractors
and not by the plantation manage
ment. The field contractors also to
have the right to decide when the
fields shall be stripped.
8. That the rate of SIS per acre
agreed upon between the field con-
ractors and the plantation as liquidat-
ID damages, if the cane be not strip
,ed, be reduced to $40 and IS per acre
for long and short ratoons.
9. If extra labor be needed for the
cultivation of fields under contract
uch labor to be furnished only with
he approval of the contractors.
10. All roads, bitches and railroad ,
racks in the fields to be kept clean
t plantation expense.
II. If the plantation cuts seed with
he lalas or tops) in any harvested /
eld. such seed cane to be paid for by
he ton at the same rate as for cane.
u. No deduction to be made by the
lantation for trash or dead cane [
rought to the mill. V
Is. The plantation TO pay all taxes I
Dr cane and cultivation contracts !,
ithout charge.
IA. Caneloaders to receive a raise
ON 171a to 90 cents per ton and the u
stance that cane be packed to the v
irs not to exceed so feet and that 81
le tracks shall not be laid over 100 F,
et apart as against $50 feet at pres
IT. On side-hills, where there is any! =
+ficulty in using the gang-plank to u
le cars. the load to be refused. Il
Is Portable track-layers, who are O.
lid 81 90 per day without overtime. to n
lit work at 4:30 p. m, or to be paid
-ertime after that hour.
16 All new Japanese Iaborers, even Il
,ys under fifteen years of age, to be H
lid at the rate of SIS per month. in
II. The plantation trains bringing I
borers to their work in the morning
leave the mill yard at $50 instead
$50 q. m. -
lS All laborers when dismissed for NJ
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