The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-07-09

plainant S said plantation, to wit, tht
balance of the crop of the year 1909
which was being harvested at the tim,
said strike began, the harvesting sea
son for said last named year having
commenced on the 18th day of Decem
ber last and have been prosecuted day
and night except Sundays thereafte
until the date of said strike; there wa
also standing in complainant s field
when said strike began as aforesaid
the cane designed for harvesting il
the year 1910, and then about ter
months old, and consisting of 425S1E
acres, which said cane at said date and
continuously thereafter hitherto stood
in need of-and during this summer
will stand in need of-continuous un.
broken irrigation at the periods here.
inabove set forth to avoid irreparable
injury to said cane and to complainant
as the owner thereof"
Rotation of Crops.
| II is further stated that when the
strike began the Oahu Sugar Company
had $50 other people in its employ who
were not japanese and did not strike,
and that within period of five days
the plantation began to employ other
laborers and mechanics.
"And complainant further shows .,
continues the complaint, that it is
necessary yearly to plant a certain
amount of cane in its fields to keep up
its crops and the proper rotations of
crops, that the true and proper plant
ing time begins about the LIST of July
and ends about the 18th of Septem.
ber; that to be forehanded and to
avoid late planting it is also neces-
sary on complainant IS said plantation,
and has been a practice for some
years, to start planting before the
proper season, to wit, about May lst,
and to cut the same back after the
first of July, to prevent the same from
tasselng the ensuing December and as
the labor stood upon the day said
strike was inaugurated, and in view
of the various operations on the plan
tation then to be carried forward and
maintained, it was necessary at that
time through antedating the regular
planting season, to continue planting
for the 1911 crop and as matter of
fact complainant's manager at the date
of said strike had already initiated
said early planting and had a few
acres planted on the day the strike
was inaugurated. That it is necessary
for the proper maintenance of said
plantation and the rotation of its
crops, and to avoid loss, waste and
irreparable injury to complainant that
about $50 acres shall be planted this
year, 1909, before the 18th day of De-
cember of this year in it's said fields,
and to secure that end complainant
has also used the supply of labor OBJ
tanned daily from Honolulu, as afore-
sald, in advancing its planting as far
as possible, but owing to the newness
of the work to many of said laborers
and the insufliciency of their number
complainant is barely able at present
to hold its own and preserve the grow
ing crops from injury and has not yet
called in or obtained sufficient labor
to properly complete or maintain, the
planting of its fields, as aforesaid, by
the 18th of September, or to harvest
the crop of cane now ripe, seasonably.
Must Avoid Loss.
The assertion is also made that at
least 500 men additional to the present
force are needed and "that by reason
of the premises it is of the highest
Importance, and it is in fact essential to
avoid irreparable loss and injury to
complainant property and business
aforesaid, that complainant should be
able to recruit and employ and canvass
for labor freely among the available
laborers and with the available labor
supply now in this Territory, and to
that end complainant, since said
strike, has used its best efforts through
various agents and sources to secure
from every available source the ade.
quate and necessary supply of labor to
avert irreparable loss and injury-and
more particularly, has canvassed and is
now canvassing for labor in said city
of Honolulu and is inviting labor
therefrom to work upon its said fields
and in the various operations of said
plantations.
Referring specifically to the unlawful
methods pursued by Maxine and his
codefendants to interfere with the
operation of the plantation, it is stated
that during the month of December,
l9OS, all of the above defendants un.
lawfully, maliciously and frauduently
combined and mutually undertook and
concerted together, and with other per-
sons whose names are to this complain.
ant unknown, to do what plainly and
directly tended to incite and occasion
offense and to do what was obviously
and directly injurious to complainant
in that, to wit, at the time aforesaid
and within the city and county afore.
said, they, the said defendants and each
of them did unlawfully, maliciously and
fraudulently combine with each other,
and with other persons whose names
are TO complainant unknown, and mu.
tually undertook and concerted together
to prevent complainant and the man.
ager of its said plantation, and the
directors and officers of complainant,
from exercising and carrying on the
business aforesaid of said corporation
and from operating its said sugar plan.
tation-to be accomplished by the de.
PENDANTS above named by certain in.
direct, sinister and unlawful means
by intimidating and threatening vic
lence against and melting and instigat.
ing assaults and batteries upon all Jap
anese in the city and county of Homo.
lulu then and there being who opposed