The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-23
JAP STRIKERS APPEAR
To De WEAKENING

was set in motion again and this time
up Beretania avenue, across the river,
into Chinatown. And so they will be
taken care of until the agitators tire
of the matter and the strikers fall
apart, and then the Consul may ex-
pect his hands full.
On Aala lane a large tent was
erected yesterday and long tables set
up. Here a large number of strikers
will be fed. While the tables were
being placed, strikers sat about eager
! ly waiting for the arrival of food. The
strike commissary man says that there
are about $500 bags of rice and hun
dreds of tubs of soy ready for the
strikers. They claim to have $4,000
subscribed.
The Waialua Demands.
/ In his statement to the press yester-
day President Tenney of Waialua plan
tation stated that the labor situation
on the plantation is the same as here
tofore reported, all the japanese labor
ers being at work They have present
ed written request for increased
| wages, along the lines of the requests
made on the other striking plantations.
ne It1uSStS VI lHS OdpdHtSH
were presented in the following letter
to the manager:
! w. w. Goodale, Manager Waialua Agri
cultural Co.
Dear Sir: We beg to respectfully
request the following raise of wages:
/. That the wages of the common
! field hands, teamsters, the millhands,
| the lunas, and of all other kinds of
laborers, be increased by eight dollars
| ($8) per month of twenty-six working
days. Provided, however, that the
wages for one Sunday work be paid
at the rate of two days work of the
secular week days; and provided fur
| Their that the overtime work be paid
| at fifteen cents per hour.
| 2. That the hour of labor per day
of the mill-hands be limited to ten
hours day; and that the hours work
ed beyond that be considered as over
| time. and be paid at fifteen cents per
hour.
5. That the wages of the cane car
riers and cane cutters be increased ten
cents per ton.
4. That the price of cane raised on
contract be increased to $l.35.
! 5. That sugar room wages be in
creased by ten cents per ton.
6. That the scatter cane contract
be increased to $3.50 per ton.
In making these requests we beg to
state the following as the grounds
therefor:
Equal to Other Labor.
]. The efficiency of japanese labor
is equal to labor of other nationalites
who are being paid $24 and cottage
on good ground besides, and to those
strikebreakers now employed in the
Aiea and Waipahu plantations, who are
being paid 1925 in addition to the rail
road fare both from and back to Ho
nolulu.
Food is Higher.
2. The prices of daily necessitie:
have increased by twenty-five per cent
since the present wage schedule hai
been adopted.
Home in Hawaii.
! 3. We have decided to make Hawai-
our home, in consequence of which tn,
I number of dependents, the women anC
children, have increased, and there i
tendency to still further increase.
4. The present wages are insufficient
: to support our wives and children il
$ decent, respectable condition.
I 8. The number of temples built an
e to be built and supported by the labor
ers have increased, adding to the labor
: ers expenditures.
6. The expenditures for social inter
course have increased in consequence
l. of formation of family by us, the Ia
/. borers.
q z. The laborers with family to SUI
g port cannot provide for old age, tn
# ordinary daily expenditures absorbin
q all the laborers' earnings.
e Such being our request and ground
n therefore, we have the pleasure t
% thank you in advance for your kin
q and favorable consideration.
lie Very respectfully yours.
'e (Signed): Oguro Rinzo. Chu Tats,
~ taro, Fujikawa Magohachi. Veto X
n yoshi, Ishii Ushizo, Hayashi Tsunejir,