The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-21

DEMANDS
Continued from Page One.)

| NSOuLluu0u lIOIu age OHe.
regards it as a masterpiece of diplo-
macy and cunning:
Dear Sir: We beg to inform you
that the Japanese laborers can not re
| sumo their work unless their request
| for increased wages, presented to you
| some few days ago, is complied with,
and that they will quit and vacate
the houses, camps and premises own
| ed by your plantation, before II o'clock
| noon, May p, as per your notice. We
| have ordered the men to clean up the
| camps and houses before leaving.
Thanking You for your kindness and
| courtesy, and praying for your con-
tinued prosperity, we remain, sir, very
respectfully yours
| Each letter was signed by the COM
mittee of the plantation to the man
ager of which it was addressed.
Jap Societies Resolve.
| On Wednesday night the members of
| the Hiroshima and Yamaguchi Socie
/ ties, representing immigrants from Jap
! anese provinces of those names, held
a meeting at which the following reso-
| lutions were passed:
]. That a committee be appointed
to look into the capacity of each Japan
ese hotel in town, with view to OBJ
tanning free lodging for evicted
strikers.
/ 2. That the japanese restaurant
keepers in Honolulu be requested to
feed certain number of strikers free
as long as the strike lasts.
i 3. That all members of the Higher
/ Wage Association who have homes be
/ requested to accommodate as many
strikers as they possibly can, and that
those who can not entertain any strik-
ers be requested to contribute in money
to the strike fund
So far no report has been turned in
!. as to how the Japanese restaurant
keepers like the idea of feeding an
unlimited number of their countrymen
gratis, nor how the Japanese hotel
keepers take to the scheme of filling
up their beds that otherwise might
be the resting place of transient room
ers, who pay in advance.
DR.. Hasegawa Rebuffed.
There was another meeting at Wal
alua yesterday at which DR.. Hase-
gawa, the plantation physician, was
present He is Travelled and an in
tellectual man, and he tried to i'm
press on those who were present al
the meeting that conservative and
quiet methods were the best.
This incensed some of the agitators
present and he was shouted down as
soon as he began to speak. Then some
rowdy shouted out that the doctor was
: a plantation spy and should be eject
ed from the meeting. Without furthel
DELAY some more rowdies hustled him
| away from the meeting-place.
Train Takes a Thousand.
A thousand strikebreakers were
/. taken out on the train yesterday morn
ing to the plantations. AS word hat
been given out that only this number
would be required, there was not 81
| much crowdng as usual. When th'
| train returned in the evening, the pay
s ing-off was done with much less crowd
= ing than heretofore, and the police hat
0 an easier time of it than the day be
e fore. when they got damned III
f against the gates in their efforts t.
make the 1aborers come in single fill
, for their pay.
il Everything is quiet on all the plan
a tations at present. At both Aiea ant
Waipahu many of the strikers hav
e already given up their homes on tn
IS plantation property and have left TO
n Honolulu. Others have been in to draw
their pay and stated that they wer
= preparing to vacate before tomorrow
at noon.
d Suppress the Shinpo.
o It appears that the main efforts o
n the agitators have been directed t
u wards the suppression of the Hawai-
Y. Shinpo among the laborers. The Shinp
ir has always been very conservative i
Is its policy and has been advocating
ID cessation of the strike and for the la
borers to wait for more propitiou
D. time at which to put in their request
n for higher wages.
III The members of the Higher Wag
II Association have been warned agains
m reading the Shinpo on pain of Ma
ID kinos dread displeasure, and copies G
~ the incendiary Jiji have been sprea
IS broadcast.
L. The latter paper is going to grea
y lengths of exaggeration in what !
'e publishes concerning the strike Yes
III terday morning it stated that the chic
II chemist of the Honolulu plantation ha
"a resigned because, as he said, it wa
&c impossible to produce good suga
le without the aid of the, japanese an