The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-05-14
SUBSTITUTE LABOR IS BEING COLLECTED
AND SENT DOWN THE LINE
Continues nom rage one.N

Confined Prom rage onen
A. q refusal to entertain or consider
any reply YOU may still make 10 my
letter Of yesterday.
Yours truly,
GEORGE ROSS,
Manager Honolulu Plantation.
Manager Bull Replies
Manager Bull, of the Oahu planta-
tion, yesterday sent his reply TO the de-
mAnds Of the strikers, in which he
draws attention to the fact that he had
already offered concessions to the mill
men which the latter refused to accept.
The following is his letters.
Waipahu, Oahu, May 10, 1909.
To Watanabe, Shigeta, Hamada, Miya-
uchi, SEQ, Tayeyama, ct al, Repre-
senting certain Japanese Laborers
on Oahu Plantation,
beg to acknowledge receipt of your
letter of the 12th inst. making certain
complaints and preferring certain de-
mands upon me, as manager of the
Oahu plantation, these demands COM
ing from the mill men as well as other
laborers and employees of the planta-
ton.
So far as the demands of the mill
men are concerned, / have already
made the concessions to them which,
upon consideration, l believed they
were entitled to, but they saw fit to
refuse to accept them; and now as to
the renewed and increased demands of
| the mill men, and as to the other de-
mands contained in your letter, in JUS
| tice to myself and to the owners of
the plantation, / decline to accede to
the same.
Yours truly,
L. K. BULL,
Manager Oahu Sugar Go.
Iightfoot on Eviction.
| When seen yesterday afternoon Mr..
Lightfoot, attorney for the Higher
Wage Association, stated that there
was nothing new in the strike situation
SO far as he was aware. He repeated
his statement of the day before that
| the japanese strikers could not legally
be evicted from their houses, which are
the property of the plantations.
With reference to this statement a
prominent lawyer in town differs with
| Mr.. Lightfoot and states that the Jap
anese can be turned out legally. While
the laborers occupy the houses they pay
rent for them. That rent may be paid
for in labor but, as soon as any of the
tenants leave the employ of the com
pany, no matter whether on the action
of their employers or themselves, the
} owners, no longer receiving rent, may
) evict the tenants.
There is no talk of eviction by the
management of either plantation sc
} far. This point was brought up entire
ly by the Higher Wage Association. Mr.
Lightfoot also stated that he did MOI
look for any trouble from the strikers
but he also said that his one fear wal
that, should any of the strikers bt
evicted, the japanese, being hot-headed
: might take grave offense and star
5 trouble.
!, Higher Wage Talk
The Higher Wage leaders have /
very plausible talk which they ar
handing out to the strikers and to any
5 body in town whom they wish to in
fuence. They say that, with all tn
, other mills on the island running ant
the laborers on those plantations re
ceiving wages, the latter will easily b.
l able to provide for the strikers, whicl
9 they will do as long as the strike ma.
{ last. Meanwhile the owners of the tw
r mills that are shut down will be losini
J, money very rapidly and that they will
}. be forced to give in when they see tina
: the strikers are independent of them
t This may sound very reasonable t
d anybody not acquainted with the situa
d ton, but if Messrs. Maxine, Negor
$ and others think of making a fnancis
struggle with the mill owners, they ar
Q liable to find out that there are one O
8 two chances for them to get the wors
!, of it.
e Owing to a typographical error in til
/, reproduction of Mr.. Ross letter yei
!. terday, in which he replied to the stril
ers' demands, words were transpose
d in such way as to put wrong meal
ing on part of his statement with n
gard to his previous treatment of hi
employees. A line reading ~ am SUI
that | have tried to treat you for you
acknowledging should have read 80
am sure have tried to treat you fairl
I and considerably.
Jill Talks Loudly.
' The japanese publications in fave
of the Higher Wage Association al
U busily engaged in vilifying the mil
% owners and stirring up as muc
I, trouble as possible. Commenting upC
i. the reply of Manager Ross of the Aif
plantation to the socalled petition
a, the strikers, the Nippu calls 1t mo
: mischievous epistle, rejecting upC
n. the honor of the Japanese race.
s The paper says: Quite contrary
A. Mr.. Ross conception of our race, Il
, Japanese are neither children NJ
m fools to be cheated by his words. F
ID says that the strikers did not gil
,e him any notice of their intention, n
make any complaints prior to the
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