The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-07-27
MAKING s men
BREAK UP
MEETING
CFrom Mondays Advertlser)

(From Mondays Advertiser)
Dissatisfied with the empty promises
which the Maxine Negoro -Soga-Jiji
philanthropists have been handing out
to them, a number of the striking Jap
anese determined to call mass meet
ing yesterday, to discuss the advisable
ity of giving up the fight and returning
quietly to work. The suggestion met
with favor and q meeting was an
nounced
But when the philanthropic leaders
of the Higher Wage Association heard
of the plans of their dupes, they deter
mined to put stop to the meeting
at all hazards, and they descended up
on the meeting in force. The strikers
demurred Mt taking any more orders
from Maxine Higganbotham s follow
ers, but they finally consented to dis
perse.
Had it not been for the blind awe
in which the more ignorant Japanese
hold Maxine, there is no doubt but
that the men would have voted to aban-
don the strike cause and return to work.
At it was, there were loud murmurings
against the high.handed action of the
Higher Wage Association in breaking
up the meeting, and one man was
heard to remark, "we' II hold another
one tomorrow any way"
But though the Higher Wage leaders
succeeded in breaking up the mass
meeting, they could not keep the men
from talking among themselves on the
street. and the discussion which was
muzzled by the Observation-Disclosures was
continued in Japanese hotels and res
taurants last night.
1t is probable that another meeting
will be called for some time today.
Those who were present yesterday say
that no inducement on the part of the
Higher Wage Association will be suf-
ficient to break up the second gather
ing, until the whole question has been
fought out and vote has been taken.
Though the strikers are fast losing
faith in Maxine Higganbotham, they
evidently fear the man and seem TO
dread the consequences of break with
him. All orders of the other Higher
Wage Association leaders are issued in
the name of Maxine.
Contractors Will Return.
The cane contractors held n confer.
ence yesterday and it was reported last
night that they had decided to go back
to work. 1t was impossible to get any
definite verification of the story, but
it seemed to find general credence
among the Japanese. These men have
never been so completely under the
control of the Makino-Negoro bunch as
have the laborers, and that they left the
plantations was due more to sympathy
with the other strikers than to any be-
lief in the promises held out by Ma
kino and his associates.
that the contractors contemplated GO
ing back and the Higher Wage leaders
have placed them among the doubtful
ones. The contractors have been heavy
losers through listening to the siren
song of the Higher Wage outfit, and
they do not see where they can pos
sibly profit by staying out any longer.
Everyday that they tacitly support the
discredited officers of the Higher Wage
Association, they reduce their own re-
sources.
Kauai Interested.
The Kauai japanese are intensely in
terested over the reports of proposed
Russian immigration, and local man
who has just returned from the north
ern isle, stated yesterday that he was
piled with questions by the mill hanos
at Lihue. Garbled accounts of the Rus
sian project have been carried to Kau-
al, and the men at Lihue mill believed
that the plan was to depose them and
put Russians in their places.
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