The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-04-05
win Have to Leave Free Quar-
tiers After Breakfast Is
Served.
THEY STILL DECLINE TO WORK
Nachrin Gives a New Reason
Why Some Failed at the
Plantations.

AS soon as they have been given their
breakfast this morning about eight hum
Cred Russians who have been camped
on Quarantine Island win be ordered
off the island and told to shift for them
selves. Col. j. w. Jones, who in in
command at the camp, win strike camp,
move away, and thus, it Is expected,
will end the duties of the military in
connection with the Russians. The lat
ter all declared yesterday that they
would not go to work on plantations.
The immigrants have been comfort
ably housed on Quarantine Island in
army tents on raised platforms. They
have been fed and looked after. Today
they are to be turned loose and told
to look out for themselves. just what
they will do no one seems to know.
Most of them are penniless.
There are three parties, or factions,
among the eight hundred Russians
One small party consists of those who
have money and say they will go back
home and pay their own way. Another
lot, consisting, it is believed, Of o ma
jority, dreams of getting q Thousand
dollars or so damages from the board
| of immigration and going home, fare
paid by the Territory of Hawaii. A
third portion of the immigrants con-
sists of men who think they can get
jobs in Honolulu.
Attorney Lightfoot has given word
| to the Russians that he doesn't want,
to see any more of them. After Sat-
urday's farewells committee called
on him Saturday night, as related in
The Advertiser yesterday, to tell him
that the Russians had decided to take
his advice and go to work.
Yesterday afternoon the Russians
were visited and found to be unani-
nous against going TO work. Light
foot, Jr., went to them and the camp
and talked with some of them.
Lightfoot is of the opinion that the
immigrants are possessed by thu idea
that they can get something by refus-
ing to work. Perhaps they have been
given too much attention." he said yes
terday, "and have got an exaggerated
idea of their own Importance. I ana
sorry to say that feel now that moth
ing will make them work except grim
necessity, and all there is to do is turn
them out, cease giving them free food
and lodging, and see how soon naees-
sity spurs them to labor.
SIN any event have done with
them. / have told them not to bother
me any more. 1 don't want to see
them, and If they begin gathering about
my Office | shall have guard to keep
them away. They send messages saying
they believe me and trust me and don {
trust anyone else here, but they pay NO
attention to my advice.'
Naehrin, the Russian interpreter.
had some more talks with his country
men yesterday. He called Mt The Ad-
vertiser Office last night to make =
| statement. 81 am very much ashamed
of my countrymen," he said, "and
wish The Advertiser would publish my
statement. | am ashamed because /
am Russian, and all these russians
are willing to eat free instead Of work
ing
81 have talked with them, and they
do not believe what is said to them
They said they didn't believe the gov
ernor, or the planters or anybody. I
asked them whom they did believe
and they said they didn't believe any
body. 1t makes me ashamed as Rus
sian to see them so unwilling to work
and willing to eat free.
"I know that some Of those who
went to work on Kauai and came back
saying they could not make living
did not work enough days in the
month. That is why they eouldn u
make enough. They were SO glad and
surprised at having their own homes
and being free to work or not when
they wanted that on many days they
would rather stay home and sing than
work. They missed many days q
month and that is why they couldn' q
make enough money to pay their bills
1t makes me ashamed to see my coun,-
trymen so lazy.
"I know that there are Koreans on
these same plantations who have work
ed some years, and they have saved
up four or FIVE hundred dollars each,
working for sls per month. I want
10 say that ! am ashamed, also, that
my people can not do better than these
/ Koreans.
"Some Of them say that am paid
10 talk NJ | do. But this is altogether
untrue. For two OF three weeks l have
tried 10 help my eountrymen, hays'
searched for jobs for them IN Homo.
lula, and have done everything I could
10 help them, and have never asked
for fent from anybody. ! can do no
more 10 help them, for I have 10 earn
| my aWn llyiua -