The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-14


| rived there everything was quiet. But
the quietness was due to the firm hand
which the ten armed guards held on
! the situation and there was strong
/ opinion expressed ON all sides TO the
manieate with the japanese laborers
on the plantation with orders to go out
on strike.
Fail to Go to Work.
| Yesterday morning, after the Japa.
nese laborers had spent the night IN
meetings and talking, they failed to
| show up at work at clock Man.
ager Chalmers of the plantation sent
them word that he wanted to know
what they were going to do. They
sent delegation to~wait on him and
ask for leave to wait until 8 clock.
Mr. Chalmers granted this permission
but stated that, if they did not turn
up by that time to go to work, they
would be ordered off the plantation.
| Promptly at clock the laborers,
with the exception of sixtyswater men,
went to work and everything was quiet
| from that time on. There were few
| others who did not appear, bat they had
| left for Honolulu on Monday night.
supposedly to confer with the leaders
of the Higher Wage Association, al
| though the Japanese laborers stated
| that they had gone to see about get
| ting bail for the men who had been
| arrested and taken to Honolulu.
Ten Men on Guard.
| Ten officers. four of whom are mount
ed, are patrolling the plantation Two
Of them are guarding the gap to; pre-
vent, if possible, any communication
between the agitators in Honolulu and
those in Waimanalo.
As already stated, this outpost patrol
at the gap stopped two japanese on
their way from Honolulu to Waimanalo.
! They stated that they were on their
way to visit friends in Waimanalo, but
| Officer Jones thought otherwise and
promptly ordered them to return, which
| they did without further argument.
Officers Wright and Jones stayed at the
gap until g 0 clock last night, when
they were relieved by two others.
Guards viii be on dug at that point
until after the laborers have gone to
work this morning.
/ Contractors Want Peaces
| There was a meeting last night Of
fifty cane contractors and they arrived
at the conclusion that it would be bet
! ter not to take any notice OF the COM
mands and demands of the agitators but
to go. right ahead with their business
and make certain of getting the money
for their contracts by furnlling them.
It is expected that the entire force
will go to work this morning. The dis
| sensions are with regard to the de-
mandea dismissal OF three japanese
! lunas, Muriaka, Shiraki and limbo
! Should the entire force not return TO
! work it will be only thai they may wait
until they have heard from the rulers
i Of the Higher Wage Association. But
manager Chalmers will not stand for
| this and has issued another order that
all hands must return 10 work al the
regular time or be turned of the plan
tation.
No Objections to Other Men.
| The Japanese at Waimanalo are
/ raising no objections to the Chinese
/ and Hawaiian laboTers continuing at
! work. The whole trouble seems 70 be
due to internal dissensions. Contractor
/ Ito IS reported TO have been one OF the
| maisE instigators as he was Jealous OF
the other men and thought that, by
working in, con junction with the Higher
| Wage Association. he could have them
discharged and thus make the profit