The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-13
A|EA MANAGER
REFUSES To
ACCEDE
Strikers Demands Are
Not Granted aipa-
hu involved.

Refusal of the demands of the Japa-
mese strikers of Honolulu plantation
was made last night by the manage
rnent of the estate. letter from Man
ager Ross being presented to the Com
mittee Of Twenty. The manager adj
yised the strikers to return to their
work, and if they still felt they had
=any grievances to adjust, to submit
them in the manner customary here
tofore. Manager Ross sets forth In
his answer that the strikers have
taken false step, and he advises
them to cut loose from outsiders and
outside influences. Manager Ross let
ter is as follows:
Aiea, Oahu, T. H., May II, 1909.
Messrs. T. Okino, H. Koga, 4. Horn,
Y. Mazda, S. Sanada, 7, Morikawa,
Il. Takata, w. Shimada, s. Sasaki,
S. Kawamata. G. Sugiyama, U. Va
manishi, T. Aoyama, 7. Miyashiro,
X. Miyazaki, K. Fujimori, K. Kuzu-
Okla. III. Kashiwada, N. Nakasfima,
L. Kanemura.
Gentlemen: Your letter or state
ment OF May 10, purporting to be a
statement of grievances by the labor
aers of this plantation, and d request
for the redress of the same, has been
duly received by me, and the contents
of same carefully noted, not only py
myself, but by the owners of the plan
tation.
In the first place / desire to thank
YOU for your acknowledgement ana
appreciation of past kindness ana
favor on my part and for the Dec
laration of your present sincere re-
spect'' for me.
Whether | am all you admit or not,
am sure that / have tried to treat
Won for your acknowledgment and
regret that you have found it neces-
sary. with an employer such as you
believe me to be, to quit work in a
BODY without prior notice, without
giving me an hour to prepare 10 save
the cane that was being cut IN the
fields and the juice that was IN the
mill. and without first presenting your
requests or grievances to me; ana
regret further that after you haa
struck work yourselves, you, or some
of you, thought 1t necessary or proper
to intinidate laborers of other nation
.alities here at work under my charge.
Do YOU think this is right? ! am sure
YOU do not, and I do not believe II
left to yourselves you would nave
taken any such course.
AS matters now stand, I certainly
decline to discuss with you the de
tails of your letter or the merits o.
-vo1r demands, and / request you, as
,vo,,r employer and one who has oeal'
fairly and property with you IN the
mast. to withdraw from the false stel
Won have taken and return TO youi
work, dismissing from your cohsloer'
alton al outsiders and outside infiu'
ences that may urge you TO con-
trary course, and then, II after YOU
have returned to your work You arr
still persuaded that you have grey
ances that should be righted, these
can be presented, so as not to inter
fere with your work and in the man
ner heretofore customary when you
have had anything TO say to me.
Between Plantation and Laborer.
The Planters Association as an as
ISOLATION is not appearing in the mat
ter at the present time, although OF
ficers of the organization have con
-sidered the question of the strike, bu
it is left as a thing to be adjusted
between the plantation and the labor
ers. Thus the direct reply of the Ho
saolulu plantation to the laborers.
Maxine and W. o. Smith.
Much of the tenor of Fred Makino'
talk in regard to the strike refers II
a bitter way to w. o. Smith, whom
the hieher-wage advocate accuses o
being the cause of the row. Maxine
alleges that Mr.. Smith took no notice
Of letters sent him in regard to in
creased wages, and left the complain
ants no chance to present their griev
ances.
waipahu Joins Aiea.
Japanese laborers on the Oahu plan
tation at Waipahu struck yesterda.
morning. tying up the mill and fell
work. The movement is half-hearte'
at Waipahu, however. and it is certain
that the interest in the strike is main
ly due to coercion on the part of tn
agitators and strikers from Aiea.
Lightfoot, Strike Attorney.
Attorney Lightfoot is counsel for tn
IN Higher Wage Association and tn
81 strikers, and he appeared before