The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-06-22
EFFORT TO CAUSE
SOME MORE STRIKES
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cord in the beginning of the strike"
says Maxine, but the Wholesale ar
rests of leaders here has brought all
the Japanese together through indigna-
ton and conviction that the planters
are now fighting them because they
are Japanese and aliens and as such,
since they are here and without money
or opportunity to get away, can be i'm
Sega, myself and the rest have result
ed in uniting the Japanese in affection.
| see the papers refer to us as being
treated as martyrs; in a sense that is
correct. | think anybody, even a plant
er, would consider he was a martyr
/ if his private Office and safe were brok-
en- open without warrant and without
i any kind of justification. 1t would be
hard enough evenS with justification,
but when the most sacred rights are
violated, it is great hardship. Or
! course the planters have plenty OF
money and can fight indefinitely, but
even money can fan in time and even
money does not always win in the
| United States. | do not think they
will ever convict us and even if they
do, we will carry our cases to the high
est court in the land, for we have
money, too, and what we haven't got,
LEADERS ARE HOPEFUL.
Secretary Negoro of the Higher Wage
Association is inclined to feel that
the end is not far off in the strike cam
paign. On July l, if requests of EVA
and Wailua men are not granted in
part or entirely, he is confident that
the laborers now working will quietly
lay down their implements of toll and
quit work. Meanwhile he has SEM
notices to Eva and Waialua, through
agents of the Higher Wage Associa,
tior calling on all Japanese workmer
to do their very best and so show theil
employers that they are capable Of
earning more pay than they are now
receiving Maxine and the rest of the
known leaders make practically thu
same statement.
SETTLED FOR SIEGE.
EOr any signs to the contrary, tn,
strikers are settling for a long sieze
> There are now much more than two
thousand strikers in various camps il
Honolulu and over three thousanC
more will be coming to town in tn,
event of the promises of the leaders be
ing fulfilled in regard to Eva anC
Waialua striking on July /.
Men now working on Eva and Wal
, alua have been cautioned to save ever!
cent possible and it is hoped by the
strike managers that for thirty days at
least they will be able to support them
selves, if by any chance the funds o
the strike campaign should require tina
individual strikers dig up for THE
own expenses.
LAUGH AT PORTO RICANS.
The Japanese newspaper, Nippu Jill
is laughing at the published fact tina
"laborers for Hawaii have arrived
at New Orleans" and the supplemental
information that these laborers numbe
as many as seventy-five. What will
the planters do with seventy-lve Port
, Ricans?" is the sneer1ng question, an
q the answer given by some is that the
will add to the business in police court
CONSUL UYENO NERVOUS.
= His Imperial Japanese Majesty
= Consul General, for the Territory o
= Hawaii, Senishi Uyeno, had lost non
= of his silent diplomacy or diplomat
e silence when see nthis morning by
), representative OF The Star. He won
dered If the reporter had ever visite
/ Japan. Naturally, the scribe hoped t
someday see, on their native heatl
Il the sons and daughters of the Sun.
i March and April are the bes
S months said Uyeno, II would not ad
y wise you to go to Japan at this time {
# the year"
This statement is not likely to g
: Uyeno in trouble with his home otfic
d Beyond the foregoing and the declS
/, ration that there was nothing ne
d that he had heard, and a request fC
- news from the reporter, the Honorabl
the Consul General, had nothing to sa
except to deny the report that the col
sulate was erecting a wireless appari
tus on the roof of the Progress bloc