The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-07-07

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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 a contract
of cultivation. It is stated that any
interference or interruption in the I'M
restricted application of the contract
system would mean a loss to the plan
tation.
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 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 18th day of May,
reads the bill of complaint, tfwhen
said laborers struck as aforesaid there
were three crops growing upon COM
plainant IS said plantation, to wit, the
balance of the crop of the year 1909,
which was being harvested at the time
said strike began, the harvesting sea-
SON for said last named year having
commenced on the 18th day of Deem
Der last and have been prosecuted day
and night except Sundays thereafter
until the date of said strike; there was
also standing in complainant fields
when said strike began as aforesaid,
the cane designed for harvesting in
the year 1910, and then about ten
months old, and consisting of 42581a
acres. which said cane at said date and
continuously thereafter hitherto stood
in need of-and during this summer
will stand in need Of continuous ur-'
broken irrigation at the periods here
inabove set forth to avoid irreparable
injury to said cane and to complainant
as the owner thereof
Rotation of Crops.
It is further stated that when the
strike began the Oahu Sugar Company
had $50 other people in its employ who
were not Japanese and did not strike,
and that within a period of five days
the plantation began to employ other
laborers and mechanics.
And complainant further shows =,
continues the complaint, that it is
necessary yearly to plant certain
amount of cane in its fields to keep up
its crops and the proper rotations OF
crops. that the true and proper plant
ing time begins about the 1st of July
and ends about the 18th of Septem-
her; that to be forehanded and to
avoid late planting it is also neces-
sary on complainant's said plantation,
and has been practice for some
years, to start planting before the
proper season, to wit, about May lst,
and to cut the same back after the
first of July, to prevent the same from
tasseling the ensuing December and as
the labor stood upon the day said
strike was inaugurated, and in view
of the various operations on the plan
tation then to be carried forward and
maintained, it was necessary at that
time through antedating the regular
planting season, to continue planting
for the 1911 crop and as a matter of
fact complainant's manager at the date
of said strike had already initiated
said early planting and had few
acres planted on the day the strike
was inaugurated That it is necessary
for the proper maintenance of said
plantation and the rotation of its
crops and to avoid loss, waste and
irreparable injury to complainant that
about $50 acres shall be planted this
year. 1909, before the 18th day OF De-
cember of this year in its said fields,
and to secure that end complainant
has also used the supply of labor OBJ
tanned daily from Honolulu, as afore
SAID, in advancing its planting as far
as possible, but owing to the newness
of the work to many of said 1aborers
and the insufhcieney of their number
complainant is barely able at present
Il, hold its own and preserve the grow
ing crops from injury and has not yet
called IN or obtained sufficient labor
to properly complete or maintain the
planting of its fields, as aforesaid. by
the 18th of September, or to harvest
the crop of cane now ripe, seasonably.
Must Avoid Loss.
The assertion is also made that at
: least 500 men additional to the present
force are needed and "that by reason
of the premises it is of the highest
Importance, and it is in fact essential to
avoid irreparable loss and injury to
complainant S property and business
aforesaid, that complainant should be
able to recruit and employ and canvass
for labor freely among the available
laborers and with the available labor
supply now in this Territory, and to
that end complainant, since said
strike, has used its best efforts through
various agents and sources to secure
from every available source the ade-
quate and necessary supply of labor to
avert irreparable loss and iniury-and
more particularly, has canvassed and is
now canvassing for labor in said city
of Honolulu and is inviting labor
therefrom to work upon its said fields
and in the various operations of said
plantations.
Referring specifically to the unlawful
methods pursued by Maxine and his
codefendants to interfere with the
operation of the plantation, it is stated
FEthat during the month of December,
1908, all of the above defendants I'M
lawfully, maliciously and fraudulently
combined and mutually undertook and
concerted together, and with other per-
sons whose names are to this complain
ant unknown, to do what plainly and
directly tended to incite and occasion
offense and to do what was obviously
and directly injurious to complainant
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