The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-27

PENDANTS or at their last place of resi-
dence. He stated that the papers for
several of the respondents had been
| left at the office of the Honolulu
branch of the Waipahu Higher Wage
Association, which he did not think
could be called anybody's last place
of residence. Judge Robinson, how
ever, denied the motion to quash, as
Lightfoot expected. He stated that he
made the motion to save his rights, if
he had any, in case of a possible ap-
peal
| The charge, in so far as it concern
| ed K. Kawamura, was dismissed by
| consent.
A Verbal Fight.
/ Lightfoot called Negoro to the stand,
| but before the latter had chance to
| say anything in response to the first
! question, Lightfoot and Kinney be-
came involved in legal controversy
that lasted half an hour. Lightfoot
started it by saying. 81 take it that
there will be no cross-examination of
the witnesses. Kinney promptly oh,
jected to that. Of course the wit
nesses would be cross examined The
plaintiff had made out prima faeie
case of contempt and it was up to the
respondents to purge themselves of it,
if they could.
@ had no idea that this was to be
a trial, - replied Lightfoot. Kinney
insisted that the burden of proof had
been cast upon the defendants. eff
| cross examination is not to be al
lowed,'' he said, ''we shall have to
let the defendants tell their own stories
as they see fit and with their own
elasticity of conscience
stAll we have to do,o said Light
foot, lis to make a sworn return, and
| submit that it doesn I make any diff
ference whether it S written return
or an examination under oath. -
Ballou stated that this. was the first
intimation the plaintiffs had had that
the defendants were not subject to the
usual cross interrogatories.
Judge Robinson suggested that the
attorneys for the plaintiffs had the
right to call the defendants to the
stand later on to prove the facts in the
case.
eff this is going to be urged re.
monstrated Lightfoot, II think we
| would better withdraw the stipulation
and make a written return, too, but
| must have time to do it and shall
have. to ask for continuance in order
to get it prepared.
Rather than have any delay said
Kinney, 1--WE will take our chances I'M
der what the Court rules
This matter being settled, the exam
nation of Negoro was begun.
INepoross Ignorance
For a man who is secretary of the
Higher Wage Association and who as
| such officer is supposed to know what.
is being done by the strikers, Negoro
showed a woeful ignorance of all strike
matters. He had one set form of
answer which he repeated parrot-like
and monotonously to every question that
was put to him by Lightfoot. 81 have
no knowledge or information in regard
to the matter except that contained in
the affidavit. I neither affirm nor
deny Time, and time again he got
this off solemnly, and apparently
whether he understood the question Or
not.
Lightfoot began by asking him
whether or not he knew the other de-
PENDANTS. Of course, he knew Hig
ginbotham and few of the others,
but most of them, he said, he had only
met for the first time in Lightfoot s
office on Sunday He stated that he
was not an officer of the Waipahu
Higher Wage Association and had no
authority over it or anything to do
with it officially. 1t is, he said, not
subject to the orders or direction of
the general Higher Wage Association,
being entirely separate organization,
but devoted TO the same purposes as
the other association, that of raising
| wages.
As for the rest, Negoro didn It know.
| He didn t know that the strikers were
! organized in bands of twenty, each
| band with a luna over it-except that
| he had heard that there was some
! such organization for the purpose of
| having the meal tickets served out
| Systematically.
Lightfoot read from the affidavit of
| Oyama Torosaki, who affirmed that each
| striker who wishes to leave town has
to get a pass from the Higher Wage
! Association. Regarding the alleged
passes for leave of ABSENCE said Ne
! goro, "the only information I have is
| that contained in the affidavit of Oyama
Torosaki. l neither affirm nor deny. !"
odd you order the passes?" asked
Lightfoot.
Il did not. I knew nothing about
| them
Asked concerning the picket system,
Negoro said that the first he knew there
was any picket system was when the
bill for an injunction was fled. He
dldn t know anything about the meth
DDS of picketing. He had never advis-
Ell plcketing and had even discouraged
1t where it appeared to be in violation
of the injunction.
1t was the same with all the other al
! legations made in the various affidavits
with which the petition for an order to
show cause was supported. Negoro did
| not know anything. He professed per
feet and sublime ignorance concerning
matters which it would seem the sec
rotary of the Higher Wage Association
surely ought to know if he were pre-
| tending to earn his salary. 1t appeared
from one of his sta ements that all of
the atlantis who are supposed to be wit
/ nesses for the prosecution were in
Llghtfoot s office Sunday, being inter
! rogated or examined or something of
! the kind, for Negoro in almost every
/ case said he had mot tba mn, +boro e..