The Hawaiian gazette., 1909-07-06
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE STRIKE.

oanee of the strike is bette nderoo
kei the japanese merchants of the city
ALL responsible today for its eontuaneei We
the japanese merchants of the City OF Honolulu why did they starr
Because prosperity the development
japanese this country they felt they held the key
could dictate the planters they felt the
time was ripe TO move the pawhS on n enrs Ooa anu
yearly the dividends paid the stockholders of
., nh - w tho ] and wealth Of the aonese commercial colony
In outgrowth of an
the japanese leaders that they had but
The situation certainly seemed to justify
the plantations Overwhelmingly
Japanese; from all the Aatic labor Market
obtained slowly and cost and did
they the word and the thing done
merchants openly head the movement They
did for three First these merchants getting the benefit of
European wholesale houses; and
they japanese these wholesale
houses and the various sugar houses and would not doo openly slap uh
Second the strike planned and organized
" ~ that tho tt ,assos 1d ocuny on nnorontv rontro
position acceptable meors and arbitrator when the trouble
We believe that was for the foregoing reasons that the japanese mer
willing delegate the control of the
the hands two irresponsible adventures like Maxine and
whatever lose, and the second
whom born and bred to agitation.
intended first be coercve
The japanese alOrers Why they appealed TOT They naturally enough
accept
education amongst them needed except campaign designed stir up bad
Assuredy
of coercion against the planters who employed them
Who has heard the japanese merchants of this
reprobaig ncndiy Jill the first
fail have heard lisp it, What the reader and all of
japanese community practically
quesnt campaign
columns the Jill full of advertisements from only japanese
retail merchants japanese wholesale merchants well
did
decidedly authorities full OF
foul and immoral pictures in the possession MaknO was when mna
murdeous correspondence uneahed the the Office
Jill when NegOrO plan criminal bagged by the
police indignation
heard and left saying there the strike being
promised and settled because the authorities had acted ghanded
the strike declared tina
passing
thew sgu5 thew nJ him more oucef than thew believed and they
off
business; p
cpe part
part Territory
Higher Wage Association with the exception Mr. sheb who ha
paid the penalty determined this having
life threatened continuously from the hour he took his stand against dis
is, strike,
could well have been dismissed from consideration from the
The showdown laboers plants
lions receiving confirming the propey strike
Ja a,cy in Hawai- ye,e yy S ps than the farm hands do -
mainland itself, the American civilization strike
is racial ske of fdefnse but predatory campaign base
Upon weaning aicency that is the feature ava
who suddenly rich widest yea
their poverty, emphatly
is today always has BEEN in the hands of the japanese merchants
city and that the abers the plantations other position at
time in this strike than the board
among japanese
this the striker only
judgment There is real division them whether this
can succeed OF not net one strikes ~ issue among nr' ana the nunO
who feel that the campaign premature and finally bring disaster
from the real issue of whether this strike and this and the mehO
If those handling the strike That
Implied the surface of japanese sentiment in Hawaii
Extracts the Jill showing the
the
Higher
Jill in of e last instance in giving
made publicly by
The justice of higher tequre explanation
The Retail Merchants
raise in proposed
(whoesale have expressed themselves favomby.
BY way incidentally may be mentioned that for some time b
the Retail Merchants Association passed resolution favorng
lten appointed that position
had been fully recognized throughout the
In the the Jill
Mr. Kate OF the Yokohama Specie certainly
criminal aud ineendiary
tshon as has been wagd IN this Territory PAST eht mo