The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-07-09

at this time has no diplomatic sig.
nificance; he is merely taking advan.
or the complainant corporation afore.
said, employing them-and from refus.
ing to continue or renew such employ.
ment, and by intimidating and threat
ening violence against and melting and
instigating others to threaten and inti-
midate violence against, and melting
and instigating assaults and batteries
upon all japanese laborers employed up.
on complainant s plantation who should
continue to work for complainant
and its manager-after being notified
| by the defendants and their said co.
conspirators to cease working for and
to refuse employment from the com.
plainant and its manager aforesaid, and
by intimidating and threatening vio-
lence against-and to boycott financial.
ly, to ostracize socially, and to black
list all japanese within the said Ter
ritory who shall fail or refuse to join
in with the defendants and assist them
in carrying out said unlawful, malicious
and fraudulent combination and plans,
and all japanese within said Territory
who should fail or refuse to use or
assist in using or promoting the use by
others of the indirect, sinister and un-
lawful means and methods aforesaio
by carrying out such unlawful, mali
cious and fraudulent combination and
plan aforesaid
Accuses Association.
The fifteenth paragraph of the bill of
complaint states that in pursuance of
the conspiracy the defendants went
ahead with their plan with definite
idea that any japanese who did not
support the increase wage movement
would suffer at the hands of the sup
porters of the movement
The paragraph referring to the Higher
Wage Association reads as follows:
So" Complainant charges and
says that in order to more effectually
carry out said conspiracy, defendants
herein, together with their said CO.
conspirators, during said month of De
cember last, organized an association
known as the Higher Wage Association,
for the ostensible purpose of bettering
the conditions of japanese laborers
throughout the Territory of Hawaii, and
advancing their wages and compensa-
ton, by lawful and proper means, but
this complainant says that that said as
sociation so organized by defendants was
in truth and in fact organized solely for
the purpose of promoting and carrying
through said conspiracy and of obtaining
criminal, cOercive control and domina-
tion over and complete subiugation of
the commercial, agricultural and other
commercial and business interests of the
Territory, including the business and
plantation interests of the plaintiff, and
that defendants in organizing said
Higher Wage Association contemplated
from the first the use of unlawful, sin
isSer and indirect methods and means,
said association being formed
the better to disguise such methods of
the defendants and to enable them to
perfect and carry out their scheme of
conspiracy more effectively and with
less danger of detection by the authori.
ties and police power of the Territory. ~
1t is stated that a branch of the
Higher Wage Association was estab-
lished on the premises of the Oahu
Sugar Company at Waipahu and that
nearly all of the Japanese employees of
the complainant corporation were in
duced to join with the leaders of the
movement as represented by the Higher
Wage Association. 1t is also declared
that the majority of the japanese la
borers were brought into line with the
wishes of Maxine and his colleagues
without "A real knowledge of what the
association planned 20 do and that they
were in fact misled by their supposed
leaders, the language of the bill of com
plant being that "laborers being led
on and duped by defendants and their
coconspirators by specious promises and
| claims and by fraudulent representa-
tions and false pretenses, whereby the
true and real conditions surrounding
| and pertaining to the relations of com
plainant and its said employees were
hidden, concealed and misrepresented.
Charge of Blackmail.
Charges of blackmail upon the Jap
anese residents of Hawaii are also
made against the officers of the Higher
wage Association. BY means of vic.
lenee and threats of abuse and vilifi.
cation against those who were not dis.
posed TO contribute to the fund, it is
declared that large sums have been
wrung from Japanese who were entirely
without sympathy for the amount spon.
sored by Maxine and the other leaders
1t is also charged that the association
has screened their servants and agents
from detection in crime.
Referring to the practice of picket
ing the bill of complaint states "that
the defendants and their coconspirators
IN pursuance of and To carry out and
effectuate said conspiracy, and with
a portion of the funds extorted and
blaekmailed from japanese resident,
within the Territory of Hawaii and
with the express purpose and intention
OF forcibly preventing any of said
Japanese strikers, formerly in the EN-
ploy of complainant, from returning tc
'he employment of complainant, have
caused certain persons to station them
selves upon the public roads and al
public places within the Territory n,