The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-08-11
SIDELIGHTS ON CAMPAIGN
FOR FILIPINO LABORERS
What Is Said of 0. A. Stevens Work by the
Manila Press---Pinkham Working as His
misunderstanding Territory.

The following is from the Manila
Daily Bulletin:
II is an energetic campaign that the
Hawaiian Planters Association is max
ing In the Philippines for labor for the
great sugar estates CT the Hawaiian
Islands.
For year past. more or less per
gisteBt effort has been made TO gather
recruits. but it has only been during
the past six months that the work Of
the labor agents has been meeting with
pronounced success Mr.. O. A. Steven,
of Honolulu. arrived at Manila yester-
day He comes from Hongkong where
he has just dispatched hundred or
more Filipinos to the Hawaiian Islands.
These men were secured in the south
ern islands and large percentage of
them came from in and about Cebu.
Mr.. Steven is no novice in securing
results as a recruiting agent. He IS a
well known business man of Honolulu
and for some years was associated with
the brokerage and auction house of j..
F. Morgan and Company. He has the
labor situation in the Hawaiian Islands
down to his finger tips. He is ready
talker and he apparently is offering the
Filipinos a proposition that looks like
the finished work of the old masters
compared to what the laborers may ex-
peet by staying with the Philippine
game.
Mr.. Steven had the reputation of
Turing many hard, round dollar from
reluctant fist through his persuasive
eIoauence on the auction block in Ho-
no10Iu. He is also meeting with the
same degree of success in his efforts
TO enlist Filipfnos for the cane fields
of Hawaii The men are to replace
the refractory japanese who have made
life a burden to the managers of the
big plantations on the islands of
the Hawaiian group. The japanese
were averaging from $18 month and
upward, but through the efforts of
thugs and agitators thousands of the
little brown men from Nippon left
their jobs and commenced pilgrim
age to Honolulu where they are report
ed 70 have proved menace to law
and order.
1t is understood that the labor which
is gradually replacing the strikers is
receiving as high as one dollar and
half gold per day The planters also
provide free quarters and medical at
tendance
Mr.. Steven has been assisted in mis-
labor campaign by L. E. Pinkham who
at ore time was at the head of the
Hawaiian board Of Health.
Their efforts here will be watched
with keen interest by the local com
mercial interests who at present are
suffering from lack of sufficient labor
to carry on projected work.
A Thousand Month.
N1n another issue the Bulletin says:
The sugar planters of Hawaii now
face the serions problem of American
izing the island territory and they have
turned to the Philippines for solution
of a disagreeable and perplexing ques-
tion.
One thousand Filipino laborers are
expected to be recruited each month
for the cane fields and sugar planta-
fions of the Hawaiian Islands accord
ing TO the present plans and endeavors
OF the Sugar Planters Association, an
organization backed by millions of
dollars.
Labor agents are now in the field
and much larger number will soon
be sent broadcast throughout the
Philippines to gather recruits. Tt is