The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-22
Continued from Page one.l

ing Inat the government nau taken nOlu
of-the situation and would protect those
who desired to return to work, and hav
ing meanwhile come in contact with
number of the strikers from Waipahu,
in the city of Honolulu, and learned
that many of them at heart desired TO
return TO the plantation, affiant inform
ed Mr.. Bull, the manager of said plan
tation, that if police protection was af-
forded him and those that he would
bring with him, he was ready to bring
a large number of the former laberers
and employees of the plantation back to
work. who at the time were out on
strike; affiant says that at that time
there was over two hundred of said
laborers prepared to return to work,
but that owing to the spying system
established by the leaders of the Higher
Wage Association, in control of the
strikers, at Honolulu, whereby strikers
were prevented from getting from their
quarters to the train, without deten
ton, which could carry them back to
work, affiant finally was able only to
reach the plantation with thirty-three
men, who arrived there on or about the
sth day of June, 1909, and who since
that time have remained on the planta-
ton, and who a few days after their
return started in to work for the said
plantation.
Affiant says that among this number
is one Fl. Uyemore, who acts as luna
for these japanese who have returned
to work, as aforesaid; affiant further
states that it was impossible even to
get the thirty-three japanese back to
work except upon emphatic promises of
immediate police protection, continued
night and day indefinitely, until intimi-
dation at the hands of the strikers and
members of the Higher Wage Asocia-
ton had ceased; and affiant says that
it is under these conditions and with
constant police protection that he has
been able to maintain this small force
of thirty odd men on Waipahu planta
ton, and that all of said laborers would
scatter Immediately if the police were
withdrawn, and, in atlantis opinion,
would have very substantial reasons
for so doing; that, in other words, aft
ant believes that Immediately upon the
withdrawal of the police protection all
who are now at work at Waipahu plan
tation would be the subjects of intimi-
dation and violence.
That the next day after afiant re-
turned to the plantation with this small
band of laborers aforesaid two of their
number ran away, and the next night
one, making a total of three that de-
serted.
Laborers Coerced.
Affiant further says that while too
close a guard is being kept at Waipahu
for any of the Higher Wage Associa-
tion leaders or agents to get to the
Japanese now at work at Waipahu, as
aforesaid, yet the Nippu Jill, the organ
of said Higher Wage Association, has
attacked affiant and the laborers who
have returned to work, in an article
which appeared in the issue of that
paper of the 18th of June, 1909, less
than week ago, which said article
is hereto attached and made part of
this affidavit, and which names and de-
nounces the luna under affiant, herein.
above named as associated with him in
the charge of these laborers who have
returned to work, as aforesaid.
And affiant further declares that of
his own knowledge and by reason OF
his intimate association with many of
y
that large numbers of them would be
glad to return to work, but are restrain.
ed by coercion and intimidation, and
that the lives of these men who have
returned to work are not safe and will
not be safe until the Higher Wage or
ganization and its system of coer-
cion has been suppressed by the
authority of law; and in this connec-
tion affiant says that at the time the
| laborers started back to Waipahu, as
| aforesaid, there was fully one hundred
and fifty of such laborers at the depot
| ready and willing 10 return to Wal
| pahu on the train, but that the leaders
and agents of the Higher Wage Asso-
citation mingled with the crowd and in
Inundated them from going back.
Afraid of Life.
The effect of the threats of the
Higher Wage Association on laborers
desiring to return to work is shown in
the affidavit of II. Uyemore, who states:
That he is the luna who under one
| Shlmizu returned to work at Waipahu
| plantation after the strike had been
| declared, and who is now at work at
Waipahu with a small band of Japa.
| nese who have left the strikers and
| gone to work; that affiant is the Uye-
more referred to in an article appear,
ing in the Nippu Jill on the 10th day
of June, 1909
That affiant, together with one Sht
mizu, was inundated and threatened
by the Higher Wage Association lead
ers and agents at Waipahu and became
afraid for his life and withdrew from
the plantation aforesaid and went to
Honolulu to get out of harm s way, and
did not return to the said plantation
until it became apparent that police
protection could be given to those re
turning to work
That afiant after coming to Homo
lulu mingled with some of the Wal
pahu strikers with whom he was vel
acquainted and found that many Of
them desired to return to work bu
were afraid of violence being resortec
to against them if they attempted II
do anything of the kind. to wit vic
lence at the hands of the Higher Wag'
Association leaders and their agents
and affiant says now that all that i
OBTAINING large numbers of these mel
is the fact that the Higher Wage As
ISOLATION leaders have the control owe
these men and by intimidation ant
coercion will not allow them to follow
their own wishes and will. but intent
to hold them under their control TO d
their bidding and to remain out upo1
strike as long as the Higher Wag