The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-07

| 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
ience 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
or should oppose an immediate demand
being made by the Japanese laborers
employed upon complainant s said plan
tation for an increase of wages, and
who should oppose strike being start
ed by such of said last named japanese
laborers as were refused such demand,
and upon all japanese in the City and
County of Honolulu aforesaid who
should attempt to persuade any of said
japanese laborers as were refused such
demand for an increase in wages from
leaving the employment of the manager
or the complainant corporation afore-
said, employing them-and from refus-
ing to continue or renew such employ
ment, and by intimidating and threat
ening violence against and melting and
instigating others to threaten and init
midate violence against, and melting
and instigating assaults and batteries
upon all japanese laborers employed up.
ON complainant 8 plantation who should
continue to work for complainant
and its manager-after being notified
NV hn 1ofa hair
conspirators to cease working for and
to refuse employment from the com.
plainant and its manager aforesaid, and
by intimidating and threatening vio-
lence against-and to boycott financial
1y, to ostracize socially, and to black
list all japanese within the said Ter
ritory who shall fail or refuse to join
in with the defendants and assist them
in carrying out said unlawful, malicious
and fraudulent combination and plans,
and all japanese within said Territory
who should fail or refuse to use or
assist in using or promoting the use by
others of the indirect, sinister and I'M
lawful means and methods aforesaio
by carrying out such unlawful, mali
cious and fraudulent combination and
plan aforesaid.
Accuses Association.
The fifteenth paragraph of the bill of
complaint states that in pursuance of
the conspiracy the defendants went
ahead with their plan with a definite
idea that any japanese who did not
support the increase wage movement
would suffer at the hands of the sup
porters of the movement
The paragraph referring to the Higher
Wage Association reads as follows:
90 Complainant charges and
says that in order to more effectually
carry out said conspiracy, defendants
herein, together with their said co
conspirators, during said month of De-
cember last, organized an association
known as the Higher Wage Association,
for the ostensible purpose of lettering
the conditions of Japanese laborers
throughout the Territory of Hawaii, and
advancing their wages and eompensa-
tion, by lawful and proper means, but
this complainant says that that said as
ISOLATION so organized by defendants was
in truth and in fact organized solely for
the purpose of promoting and carrying
through said conspiracy and of obtaining
criminal, coercive control and domino
ton over and complete subiugation of
the commercial, agricultural and other
commercial and business interests of the
Territory, including the business and
plantation interests of the plaintiff, and
that defendants in organizing said
Higher Wage Association contemplated
from the first the use of unlawful sim
lister and indirect methods and means,
said association being formed
the better to disguise such methods of
the defendants and to enable them to
perfect and carry out their scheme of
conspiracy more effectively and with
less danger. of detection by the authori-
ties and police power of the Territory
1t is stated that branch of the
Higher Wage Association was estab-
iished on the premises of the Oahu
Sugar Company at Waipahu and that
nearly all of the japanese employees of
the complainant corporation were in
duced to join with the leaders of the
movement as represented by the Higher
Wage Association. 1t is also declared
that the majority of the japanese la
borers were brought into line with the
wishes of Maxine and his colleagues
without a real knowledge of what the
association planned 20 Go and that they
were in fact misled by their supposed
leaders, the language OF the bill of com
plant being that "laborers being led
on and duped by defendants and their
eoconspiratofs by specious promises and
claims and by fraudulent representa-
lions and false pretenses, whereby the
true and real conditions surrounding
and pertaining to the relations of com
plainant and its said employees were
hidden, concealed and misrepresented
Charge of B1ackmail.
Charges of blackmail upon the Jap
anese residents of Hawaii are also
made against the officers of the Higher
Wage Association. By means of VIC
lence and threats of abuse and Wifi
cation against those who were not dis
posed to contribute to the fund. it is
declared that large sums have been
wrung from japanese who were entirely
without sympathy for the amount spon-
sored by Maxine and the other leaders
Tt is also charged that the association
has screened their servants and agents
from detection in crime.
Referring to the practice of picket
ing the bill of complaint states "that
the defendants and their coconspirators
in pursuance of and to carry out and
effectuat2 said conspiracy, and with