The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-06-08
The Strike Situation.

| arrangements they set for others. Il
been broken. The strikers are almost r.
third of the six thousand strikers out
The plantations have profted from
the lessons so far taught by the strike.
The necessity of looking to others than
the Japanese has shown that the plan
tations are not so entirely dependent
upon the Japanese as the managers
themselves had supposed. 1t has been
demonstrated that the native Hawaii
ans can perform the labors of field
hand and under certain conditions
he will. 1t has been demonstrated that
| in certain piece work positions the
/ Portuguese can perform more work per
day than the Japanese have been do
ing, at less cost to the plantation and
with greater daily pay for themselves.
The lesson has also been forcibly
borne in upon the managers that mix
ed laboring population is desirable. Ac
cepting this lesson, the various planta
lions not affected are Fastening to re-
place some of their japanese with Port
uguese and Hawaiians, while in other
| places there is demand for Koreans
and Chinese.
So far as the plantations themselves
|
off as result of the strike, while some
hundreds of strikebreakers have bene-
flied, and the white stores have secured
the profits which have heretofore gone
to the Japanese merchants. The Jap.
anese merchants are the hardest hit of
any. Some firms have gone out of bust
ness and others are on the verge of
bankruptcy. Any extended continuance
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portion of the smaller Japanese store.
keepers and seriously cripple all, big
and little alike.
So acute has the effect of the strike
been upon the japanese merchants that
the wholesale and the retail associa-
tions of merchants have come out open
ly against the policy and aims of the
strikers, urging the men to return to
work and adopt other means of secur-
ing the increased wages they feel them
selves entitled to.
The peaceful attitude of the strikers
has continued, although once or twice
the situation has been strained. 1t is
reported that one mob was organized
to resist an arrest made at Waialua by
the U. S. Marshal, but the Marshal and
his prisoner had left for Honolulu be-
fore the strikers could muster the
courage to use force. The strike lead.
ers threaten to resist the eviction of
the Japanese strikers from the company
houses of Waialua and Eva, but their
threats are not regarded seriously.
Stock Exchange Figures.
The records of the Exchange for the
week show the following sales:
Ewa-50, 20, 55, 20, 10, 25 at 1925
Oahu-l50, 10, 1910, 100, 100 at 30;
65 at 1925; 100, $50, $50, 100 at 30;
10, 10 at 30.125; %, 100, 100, 25, Is
10 at 30.25; 5 at 30.75; 5, 10 at 81; 20,
so, s, 8 at 31.25.
Waialua-l1, Is at SO; at $3.50.
Hawaiian C. & 5000. so, so, 100
80 at 80; 40 at 29,s75; 20, 10, so at
1880; S, 10 at 80.
Hawaiian Sugar-l5 at 40.
Olaa-50, 80 at $50.
o. r. & LIS at 100.
Hon. B. & MS at 1915; so at "a
Hawaiian Pineapple-10 at 22o25.
Waialua 5s--$3500 at 100.
olaa 6s-$2OOO at 96.75.
McBryde 6s--$6000 at o.
Haiku 6s-$10,000 at 101.
Plantation Outlook.
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what feeling of uncertainty may remain
on the plantations unaffected, the pros
poets for record breaking in production
. are bright. The weather has been on
the whole most favorable and the move
ments of the harvested product salts
factory, over 100000 tons having been
marketed or being on the way to the
refneries.
The quotations on the product during
the week have been ranging from 3Ss
TO 392, with prospects of an advance
in the near future.
The first payment on the purchase
price of the OOkala plantation, taken
over from the stockholders by Il H.
Davies & Co., was made yesterday on
the basis of SO share, a total OF
$4,000.
Real Estate.
There has been a consistent and
steady demand for residential b1lding
lots, the prices figuring in the various
transactions shading ii anything some
what higher than heretofore. The de-
mand for rents appears 10 be slacken.
ing of, however, and houses are to be
had now some twenty per cent. lower
than was the case at the beginning of
the year. This is due principally to
the fact that many renters have during
the past six months become landowners
and are occupying their own dwellings.
The demand today appears 10 be for
small cottages, few Of these remaining