The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-08
IS RECRUITING
MORE f|L|P|NOS
Hawaiian Planters Agent Getting
LaborerS in Cebu for
Plantations.

CEBU, June go. A. Steven, who
for MANY months had a labor recruiting
Office on Magallanes street in Cebu, re-
turned to our fair Second City yester-
day on the Francisco Reyes. Mr.. Ste
ven is. as viii be remembered, con-
nected with the Hawaiian Sugar Plant
ers' Association, and it was for the
Hawaiian sugar planters he recruited
laborers in this and other provinces in
the Philippines. The Cebu office was
closed down some months ago and Mr..
Steven returned to Hawaii. However,
he is now back again and has opened
his old office in Magallanes street.
To back up his assertion that Hawaii
is the place where, from all points of
view. Filipinos may do better than in
their own country, Mr.. Steven has
brought with him three people from
this province who last year emigrated
to Hawaii to work on the sugar planta-
tions. They are a married couple from
Cebu and man from SiquiJor. These
people are left entirely to themselves
while here, and will in their own way
tell their countrymen how they have
made out in Hawaii Judging by their
clothing, it seems that they have not
done bad at all. These people, who
were clad in rags when they left the
Philippines. are now sporting clothes
of the latest cut, American shoes, watch
and chain, and everything else that
goes to make up what is understood
bv being well dressed. They look strong
and healthy, and no trace is visible of
the pangs of hunger, which, according
to the defunct Renacimiento, its re
incarnation La Vanguardia and similar
Filipino papers of that type, the Eli
pno laborers in Hawaii are supposed
to suffer.
MIR. Steven says that he does not care
to make any further statement concern
inc the advantages offered in Hawaii ;
he wants to let these people relate their
own experiences; and we 10 not think
that Mr.. Steven could offer a fairer
proposition to the Filipino people.
Regarding the Filipinos now in Ha-
wall. Mr.. Steven had this to say:
ain many ways the Eilipiuos beat
any class of labor we have ever tried
down there. The Filipinos watch with
interest everything that is going on,
and never hesitate to do what they are
] told to. because they want to learn.
Their main characteristic IS desire to
! learn: they take a great deal of inter
est in their work.
+ s'And then they save up their money,
/ About the first thing they did after
( they cot settled down there was to open
! bank accounts, and most of them have
quite 4 little pile on deposit.
] al understand that reports of fights
! between Luzon and Cebu laborers have
reached the Philippines. These reports
have been greatly exaggerated. There
was lust one little Insignificant fight
ana that wasn't an organized battle
/ with Cebuanos on one side and LuZon
people on the other. It was nothing
! hnt q common fight between few Of
| the men. such a is liable to happen
anvwhero Pint il CHANGED that the
| trouble arose between a couple Of Cebu
people and couple Of Manila people
aha the Honolulu papers tried to make
q racial war out Of it.
! eve are very we'll satisfied with the
! men we have recruited in the Philip
nfnas. and We want to get more Fill
ninos'
! MIR. Steven goes to Siquiior this morn
! fns, and expects TO he back in Cebu To-
morrow evening At H0ngkOng he pur,
! chased = little steamer. so that he does
nat have to depend upon others for
/ TRANSFORMATION between the islands when