The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-19

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who are snort consist principally OF CUT
ters and loaders-and of these, working |
under contract, total of Al worked |
Yesterday, and today the number work |
ing is III, an increase of 80.
''Tt is quiet at the plantation and
it is the expectation that larger force
will be at work tomorrow
Half of Remainder Join.
On Monday half of the Eva strikers
returned to work and half of the re-
mainder is reported to have returned
to their duties yesterday.
Maxine, when asked about his Sun
day trip to Eva, and being warned
away by the japanese, says that that
was not true. s'There was a man
named Tanaka whom we wanted to see
and we heard he was at Eva, so we
went down there. But when we got
there we found he was at Honouliuli
and so we waited at the station and
took the next train back to Honouli
ui.'' That's all, quite simple.
AS to Maxine and Negoro, it is re-
ported that each time they go down
to plantation to "advisev they re-
they are said to charge for their expert
ScINlcSS III TG Tie Sbflhe.,
Nippu Jill Rampant. !.
The Nippu Jill, organ of the Higher
Wage Association, the agitators and
strikers, says that Kahuku will be the
next plantation to be tied up. The
Nippu says that the laborers have ask
ed that higher wage leaders be sent
down there to help them The Nippu
is also authority for the statement that
men with torches and oil tins went
through the Kahuku camps and with
the lights and banging on the tins
aroused all the japanese and a big
meeting was held and that the men
were favorable to strike.
1t is said that the japanese opposing
the Higher Wage propaganda are ''get
ting the worst of it, at Kahuku, and
that they have fallen out SO much with
their co-laborers that the strike sym
pathizers have offered them travelling
expenses to leave. The Nippu claims
that the Kahuku men win claim or de-
| mand more than $1.00 day.
| Those opposed to the strike there are
f,reported to be the skilled labor
The Nippu claims that the Waianae
| plantation has asked that several
'9leaders be sent there to stir up
strike agitation. The Nippu is making
| threats.
Other japanese papers state that if
what is in the Nippu about coercion
| on Kahuku plantation is true. the plan
tations should afford protection for
those who have decided to remain with
the sugar people.
Association Meetings Held.
Meetings Of the Hiroshima and va.
maguchi associations, composed of Ia
| borers from the two provinces so named
i are reported to have been held last
night to discuss ways and means to
back up the strikers. These assoca
tions were formed bv the High Wage
people during the early months of their
agitation
Boycott Chinese Stores
The Chinese storekeepers at Waipahu
are feeling the effects of the strike,
for the japanese have boycotted them
since the stike began The Chinese res
taurants which the japanese formerly
frequented have not seen a japanese
patron for week.
Hawaii .Shinpo on the Strike.
The following is translated from yes
terdays Hawaii Shinpo which repre-
sents the opinion of sane and conserva-
tive elements among the local japanese.
The Shinpo's editorial is titled 'tThe
Victory of Peaceful Principle" and
reads as follows:
The Shinpo advised the japanese
Il to refrain from rush action, always
stating that the wage scale will be
l az cd hxrn xx-b, ab
is becoming more favorable every day,
and the increase of wages will be con
sidered by the planters, if presented
to them in a peaceful manner and
through proper channels, when all pend
ing questions are settled which vitality
affect the sugar industry of the Terri
tory. Such advice was given when
the agitation first cropped up last fall.
The Shinpo advocated peaceful meth
cd as the means for the attainment OF
higher wages and eontended iehat the
blind rush of the Nippu Jijf and the
so-called Higher Wage Association
would not only be not taken kindly to
by the planters but it would disturb
our business, bring discredit upon ou1
: laborers reputation, and would haster
the days of European labor, which
would destroy the patronage of our la
borers
Against the Shinpo's opinion, tn,
Nippu and the Higher Wage Associa
ton advanced their opinion for an i'm
mediate raise of wages and sought i
in a. rush. What they sought as al
immediate remedy has not been realiz
9 ed even after nearly year, becaus
u they adopted wrong policy. Their
proved to be mere canard and hot al
campaign which has not benefited GU
: eountrymen at all, but, on the contrary
has hurt them. They have urged tn
innocent laborers to the last resort, tina
. of strikes, through which the laborer
are losing nearly $4,000 a day, to sa
nothing of the indirect loss to Japanes
business and the discredit that wa
brought upon our laborers, who, thrcug
their untiring and eeaseless toll for tn
last few years, gained an enviable repr
tation as steady and reliable workers.
The Nippu S foolish agitation brough
about the special income tax to provid
the necessary fund for the importatio
of European immigrants who will b.
come the future competitors of the jan
anese field hands; three thousand {
4 +a1 n, H. q.