The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-05-18

not know that they viii return to work
Saturday as intimated. We have no
assurance that they will or even on
Monday. We have enough men Of
other nationalities working to move
the cut cane to the mill and grind it,
but the standing cane will have to re-
main standing. IT. ii. Petrie, secre.
tary of Castle g. Cooke, agents for Eva
Plantation.
Manager Ross received reply from
the committee of the Honolulu Planta-
ton strikers thanking him for his cour-
tesy in answering their letter of de-
mands, and stating that the demands
came from them voluntarily and not
from or through outsiders. They add
also that they have heard that the
strike breakers, who went down to the
plantation today to keep work going
were receiving $1.25 per day, and that,
under the circumstances they feel that
they should be paid the 81 per day
they have demanded.-Richard Ivers of
w. G.. Irwin & Co., agents for Homo
| lulu (Aiea) Plantation.
CSOSOSOcOSOSOoOcOSOo Ooc
and 18th inst, and we thank you for
the courteous tone of your communica-
tions. We sympathize with you of the
difficulties confronting in consequence
of the strike. But as the request
for the increased pay is our own de-
sire, free from outside influence, we
beg to respectfully request you to CON
! slider and grant our request.
We respectfully submit that our re-:
quest is not unreasonable nor unfound-
| ed for we learn from the newspaper
! report that you have offered 1925 n
! day to the natives in Honolulu, and
we also know that the Chinese, who are
now working in your plantation, is be-
ing paid one dollar day and given
board and lodging besides. We respect
fully offer that if you give us one dol
lar day for ordinary field hands, and
proportional increase for other laborers,
all of us are willing and ready to de.
clare off the strike and return to work
Immediately.
Very respectfully yours,
COMMITTEE OF TWENTY.
Eva Goes on Strike.
The plantation laborers at Eve
struck yesterday morning, every Jap
anese on the estate refusing to go L
work when the whistle blew. The strik,
was decided upon at meeting helC
Thursday night. The Japanese wer,
more considerate on Eva plantation
than at Waipahu and Aiea, for the.
finished up about all the cane that wa
on hand and the work at the mill
The laborers get more money at Ew;
than at the other two estates, and /
was hardly thought they would jolt
the strikers. Their act is due to sym
pathy and to half score of agitator
who persisted in working the laborer
up to going out. The committee whicl
called upon Manager Renton wa
courteous. With reference to the Ewt
strike, Il. d. Tenney, president o
Castle & Cooke, agents, made the fol
lowing statement yesterday morning
Last evening about o'clock mum
ber of Japanese laborers of Eva plan
tation from the lower camp. near HI
nouliuli, held meeting, and at
ho'clock or thereabouts marched to tn
, main village of the japanese, near tn
, mill, where another meeting was hel
: to discuss labor matters in genera
and whether or not to strike in par
tcular. The meeting at the mill vii
laSe numbered ABOUT oUu men. ines
| men decided that all Japanese shoul
/ not work today, Friday, nor tomorrow
Saturday; that during that perio
= their demands on the managemeT
) would be formulated; that on Monda
S they would be presented to the mar
T. ager; that on the same day, Monda.
e the japanese laborers would return
S work. pending an answer from II
/ manager.
i. "The meeting at the village near IL
4 mill was orderly.
: Following out the program {
n stated above, none of the japanese {
S Eva are working today. save a fe
/ in outlying camps or in the plantatio
J. stables"
May Return to Work.
Yesterday forenoon the statemei
{ came from Eva that the strike
d there contemplated a return to the
n work today. Even up to last eveniI
., Fred Maxine said he was not certa
whether the men would remain out
t not. The agents thought they wou
/, not return until Monday at leas
/, Something had been said by the IN,
t that they would take a couple
S days holiday"