The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1907-12-06
ATTEMPTING TO
ORGANIZE LABOR
Continued From Page one.)

Yamamoto, a japanese Interpreter
for E. A. Davis, an agent of the Singer
Sewing Machine Company, is author
ity for the statement that Fred Ma
kino is mixed up in the. affair. IL,
has claimed to his employer and to S
S. Paxon, the local manager for the
company, that Maxine had asked him
to join in a plan for establishing local
unions among the japanese laborers
Maxine denies that he has any hand
in the business at all, urging on the
other hand that the japanese can not
agree among themselves long enough to
unite for anything, even if they Mad
any grievances, which they have not.
He stated, however, that he had been
informed that Charley Chillingworth
was working to unionize the japanese,
having been offered by someone bonus
of fifteen cents head for all japanese
who would come into a union. Maxine
expressed doubt as to Chillingworth s
ability to make success of any such
a scheme.
Chillingworth admits that it shas
been proposed to him to unionizeN the
plantation laborers and that he has
been considering the matter.
George Yamaua acknowledged to the
Advertiser that he had been approach,
ed by stranger, claiming to be
Federation of Labor man. He denies
this admission to others, but that does
not count. He has taken too many
into his confidence, however, to make
any, denial of his interview with the
Advertiser effective 1t is known posi-
lively that this man called on him re-
peatedly, urging his scheme, but was
turned down.
K. Odo, japanese interpreter, who
is employed off and on by Judge Hum
phreys, is also said to know consider
able about the matter, but no state
menu Couiu NC SeCuIcu lIOm Hlm.
Both Maxine and Chillingworth de-
ny the existence of any Federation
agent or any man representing himself
to be such in the Territory. Maxine
says that the whole story is a fake.
says that if there is such
a man here at all he is only trying
to work a private graft.
1t is interesting to know that the
sewing machine agent Yamamoto, who
says that Maxine tried to enlist his
services as a union organizer, also>
claims that Maxine wanted him to
go to work on the plantations some time
ago drumming up recruits for the emil
grafton to Vancouver. At that time
Maxine repeatedly stated that he
would take only those japanese who
came to him voluntarily and that he
was making no attempt to induce la
Dorers to leave the plantations to sail
N the steamer chartered by him.
Maxine was interviewed by the Ad-
7ertiser on Wednesday afternoon. Chill
ingworth was interviewed yesterday
lfternoon. In the meanwhile Maxine
lad been to see Chillingworth and
ak the situation over, while there had
lso been consultations in the matter
Chillingworth and Yamada.
WHAT CHILLINGWORTH SAID.
81 have nothing to say in the matter '
t all, F" is the way Chillingworth at
rst answered an inquiry put to him
esterday as to his share in the pro- +,
osal to unionize the plantation la |
orers. 81 refuse to talk. If the
'lanters' Association saw fit to send /
n agent to Vancouver to fix me, l
now what 1 can do.' r
Chillingworth was then told of. the c
formation concerning him secured t
rom MAKING, particularly concerning
lie fifteen cents a head he was sup t
osed to receive.
Well, it has been proposed to mel
lat / go ito work and form unions
nong the Japanese he said in an :
yer, ''but not for any fifteen cents G
head. 1 have BEEN considering the IN
after, but l have not definitely made 0
> my mind one way or the other. In :
lie first place, if / formed the unions, +,
would be their attorney, and there n
ould be money in it. On the other Il
and l cannot see my way clear to ?
D anything that would be working q
yainst the plantations. a
81 do not believe, however, that II
lere is any such man here as the =
dvertiser claims. If there was any .
an here from the Federation of Labor y
would know it first of all. 1 repre- u
mt the seventy-one thousand japanese n
these islands ana 1 have ways of 4
nding out about such things. Just "
soon as / heard that there was sup -
'sed to be such a man here 1 began A
make inquiries. / have a man work
g among the camps on Hawaii now
ying to find some trace of such a b
an. "
George Yamada came to me the a
her day and asked me if the man ii