The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-03-04
SULLENLY THE
RUSSIANS
WAIT
Absolutely Refuse to Work on Any
Plantation or Listen
to Reason.
"WE WILL STARVE AND DIE"
MISUNDERSTANDING and lgno-
rance Drive Them Into Very
Ugly Mood.
cFrom Thursdays Advertiser,

NO o 90 o 9 o o o o O o O o O n
@ The two hundred and fifty Rus o
q slams who arrived here a short o
o time ago are camped on the Chan o
@ mel wharf, defying the planters o
o who desire to enlist them for the o
o plantations and at the verge of o
o. defying the authorities. Some of o
o them, according to what they tell @
o. the interpreters, are criminals es- @
% capped from Russian and Siberian @
% prisons. They no longer offer Q
o. terms to the planters but refuse q
o point blank to go to work, saying Q
a. the work is too hard. and have @
@ engaged Attorney Lightfoot to Q
O. look after their interests and set Q
q tie what they claim to be the mis- 2
O. representations made to them. .
o They have no money; they say e
a thew will starve themselves or go %
o. out on the street and fight for G.
o. what thew need. They have told 9
% Interpreter Thomas that they in e
o. tend to steal for living If they {.
% get hungry.
q eff they become public charges 9
o. on the streets, said United .
% States District Attorney r. w. Q
ke) BrecKOnS INC lcuo'"'
% government will deport them. =
% In one day. by an inexcusable 70
o. series of Misunderstanding, an ir- 9
o. retrievable breach has been made Q
~ between Russians and planters and 9
O. the whole system of immigration Q
o. now in practise concerning Siber- g
g, ian immigrants is threatened and q
o. perhaps rendered impossible. e
O. If the matter is not settled to- e.
@ day the chances are it never Will =
o. be and to make matters worse 25o %
o. more are coming on the Korea .
o. which arrives Monday and are ex- .
o. pected to Join the recalcitrants.
Ho00000o0o o. 90 o o 4
"we haven't any money. We dom
care. If we can It get food we III starve
10 death.'' This is the translation OF
one of the remarks of Russian emil
grant addressed to reporter yester'
day. accompanied by shrug that need
ed no translation. 1t is the sentiment
of the entire two hundred and fifty
people who are sleeping, eating and Inv
ing on the bare floor of the Channel
wharf, and the sullen doggedness of the
one is the attitude. of all.
Yesterday morning they trembled on
the verge of riot, rendered vicious by
being battered from pillar to post as
they term it, obsessed by their own
ignorance and their misconstruction OF
the representations made to them. They
had been ordered to leave the Bishop
wharf whittier they had been taken
To them, this was but one more piece
of oppression which they consider they
are laboring under, and rendered sus
picious by the traditions of their past
life and the experiences of the new they
refused point blank to move.
Day before yesterday deputation
of Russians, three men and two women
called upon Attorney Lightfoot, the rep
resentative of the Makaweli Russians
and he agreed to take up their case
He arrived yesterday just in time to
avert serious trouble and through an
interpreter explained to them that the
wharf they were on was private prop
erty and that the government was go
Ing to take them to another where they
Appeased.
They were somewhat appeased by this
and commenced packing at once. Sheriff
Jarrett arrived on the scene shortly
atterward and after being prepared fol-
1rouble all morning found them in q
less antagonistic mood interpreter
Thomas, an ex-Fifth Cavalryman, call
ed them in big circle around him
and explained more fully the reasons
which necessitated their removal. They
listened TO him sullenly at first, scowling
AIT the sheriff whom they had heard was
the head of the police. In their own
country commissioner of police is well
hated, and with reason.
As Thomas went ON their faces light.
ed little and when he explained the
better facilities that they would have
they gave hasty assenls and made a
run for their respective belongings.
Then ensned many cOlOred process
sion from the Bishop wharf 10 the Chan
mel wharf, every man and woman and
child IN u laden 10 full capacity. Tho
burdens that the men carried were in.
credible, One immense basket that
contained tho belongings Of AN entire
family made tho irnntlt on the back
~ hufiy peasant ana Il afterwards
Iook two Hawaiian pieyedores 10 move
~,
Arriving al the new wharf there was
u inah f0f lhn 'rh0leesl apps hrni6
Tbs four ngTneIs of the place pefc, VI
ennIsf, iAf apartments 40 iuAfi hec0nd
fhuifr eaa amund ilp iR0 rows N
Illlaff that support The lgnf, 40 lTen
tfHnr llinH Hlnng ona ailf shelters
N'ghi faiaiilfs, ihf adililaaHl pIYafy
fffnfri ~ igusg y no fraflfi 10 place
tflnH ils epfY NJ ~ resi-
uoRf Aakina