The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-07-09
INJUNCTION ASKED
AGAINST METHODS
OF THE STRIKERS
(From Wednesday Advertiser.)

The Oahu Sugar Company, Limited
is named as the plaintiff in a bill fol
an injunction, directed against Maxine
and thirty two other Japanese who have
been identified with the agitation foI
higher wages among the plantation la.
borers. An order to show cause why
a temporary injunction should not is
sue, restraining the defendants from
in any way interfering with the bust.
ness of the Oahu Sugar Company, was
signed yesterday by Circuit Judge Rob.
inson and was set down for argument
at o clock this afternoon.
The order to show cause directed
against Maxine and his thirty-two co.
defendants was granted on a mott IN
made by the firm of Kinney. Ballou,
Prosser and Anderson, the attorneys for
the Oahu Sugar Company, based upon
the bill of complaint and upon the
af1idavits of Hatsuhei Tsuneda, Katsuji
Tsunoda and loyal Tsnzuki.
The unlawful operations of the mem.
bers of the Higher Wage Association
as reflected in the actions of the de.
PENDANTS named are well shown in the
affidavit that Fushino, one of the de.
PENDANTS named, forcibly detained him
at the office of the Higher Wage Asso-
citation in Honolulu on Sunday last
Tsuzuh being also threatened with
bodily harm if he did not discontinue
his employment with the Oahu Sugar
Company. The two other defendants
who are connected with the threats of
violence are Hanki and Matsushigi,
who are charged with having made
threats against the life of Tsuzuki. The
affidavit concludes in the following Ian.
guage:
Fear of Life.
"That by reason of the threats of
personal violence and death hereinbe-
fore referred to deponent is daily and
hourly in fear of his life lest the
threats made by the parties herein
named be carried out"
A second affidavit attached to the
motion for an order to show cause why
the temporary injunction should not
be granted is signed by II. Tsunoda,
who states that on Sunday he was
threatened by Yanagisawa, one of the
defendants, who also stated that if
he attempted to prevail on his former
workmen to return to the field, he would
be "choked to death.'
The japanese, Hada, is charged in
the affidavit as being the person re-
sponsible for the detention of Tsunoaa
in the Office of the Higher Wage AS
sociation on Sunday and similar al
legation is directed at Fushino, already
mentioned in the affidavit by Tsuzuki
In the bill of complaint it is stated
that owing to the large area under cul.
tivation by the Oahu Sugar Company
it has been profitable both to the plan
tation and to its employees to let out
cane and canefelds under contract
of cultivation. 1t is stated that any
interference or interruption in the un-
restricted application of the contract
system would mean a loss to the plan.
tation. n
The bill of complaint recites the
events leading up to the demand that
was made by the mill employees on May
z, 1909, for an increase in pay, com,
promise offer from Manager Bull be.
ing refused. May IL is mentioned as
the day of the strike affecting the
whole plantation, and that for a period
of ten days the laborers and Others
involved in the strike remained in their
quarters on the plantation and refused
to move.
"That on the 10Th day of May,
reads the bill of complaint, "when
said laborers struck as aforesaid there