The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-06-03
WHAT MAKING SAYS.

Maxine gave The star the following
interview this morning: We are 60
ing to win We, have the strike so
come. There is a tendency on the part
of the planters to try to bluff us, but
we are taking no bluffs. What do l
mean by bluff? Well, | mean that the
planters are trying to bluff when they
talk of getting European labor here;
when they talk of being able to get
along with strikebreakers, and when
they talk of being willing to spend all
the money necessary to break this
strike.
I'VE HAVE MONEY, TOO"
"Of course the planters have money,
but we have money, too. We have
a lot of it; plenty of it. This talk of
us having only $4,000 is nonsense. Ac-
cording to some newspaper reports we
have had only $4,000 since the first of
the strike. If that is so, how have
we been able to get along so far?
MONEY FROM ABROAD.
I'VE have sympathizers in Japan and
many on the Coast. We can get more
money from the Japanese in Califor-
MIA than from our Japanese sympathz-
ers in the home country for the reason
that the big colony of japanese in Cali
fornia is very much interested in our
strike campaign here and the Califor-
MIA japanese are making more money
than are our countrymen at home, and
therefore more willing and better able
to held us. We have thousands upon
thousands of dollars assured not mere
ly promised. And this in addition TO
about $4,000 in cash now on hand
here.
RUNNING STRIKE CHEAP.
We are running the strike in this
city on the most economical bases. We
have everything arranged in the strik-
ers' camps in the most systematic way.
There are captain and a lieutenant
in each camp and they receive their Or
ers from and make their reports to the
strike headquarters. We have a sys-
tenn of spies whereby we ascertain
spending. If we find a striker in
store spending even a fve-cents for
anything that is unnecessary we warn
himthat he is doing himself an injury
that he must hold all the money he
can in reserve in case of emergency,
for we may have to hold this strike
for long period. AS it is, we are
prepared to hold out for six months or
more.
ENTERTAINMENT FURNISHED.
I'VE see that the strikers are kept
satisfied and entertained. We have
corps of Japanese singers and actors
which goes from camp to camp, in
Palama, Moiliili and Kakaako, and fur
nishes amusement for the men who are
on strike
MEDICAL INSPECTION.
ITO each camp is assigned a Japa-
nese physician who gives his services
willingly and without cost. He makes
a daily inspection and we observe the
utmost vigilance against sickness. We
are providing, as you may see, for
everything possible to properly care for
the strikers.
TO SCATTER STRIKERS.
But the two thousand strikers now
camped in Honolulu are not to re-
main in town. We are providing for
them to dispense. Some will go to
Japan and lot will be scattered on
the other islands, many of them going
to work on other plantations where
men are needed. In this way we
will keep down expenses and save our
reserve and be prepared to accommo-
date other men as they leave the plan
tatiOns of this island.
MATTER OF RETURNING.
1--WE may advise the men on some
of the Oahu plantations to return 10
work, but in this way. They will go
to work and Will work, maybe ten days
out of the month, just long enough to
make sufficient money to keep them
living for a month. They will work,
in this way, a few days out of each
month and then strike They will
return to work and then strike again,
and so on. The plantations ! nthese
islands cannot get along without Jap
anese laborers, no matter what they
say We will work enough to ge;
money to live on and then quit, and
keep working and quitting till the
planters come to time.
SOUTH AMERICA TRIP.
1T is foolish to suppose that any
number of the strikers are going to
South America without knowledge of
labor conditions there. What has
been done toward this possible exodus
is just this, that Japanese associations
on the mainland, in sympathy with
our cause, have at their own expense
sent men to South American places
where they are looking for labor, to
find out conditions of climate, cost of
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