The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-08-09
IS RECRUITING
MORE FILIPIN0S
Hawaiian Planters Agent Getting
Laborers in Cebu for
Plantations.

CEBU, june $50. A. Steven. who
for many months had labor recruiting
Office on Magallaues street in Cebu, re.
turned to our fair Second City yester.
day on the Francisco Reyes. Mr.. Ste.
ven is, as will 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 a 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
! by 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 Fill.
| pino laborers in Hawaii are supposed
to suffer.
Mr.. Steven says that he does not care
to make any further statement concern
ing the advantages offered in Hawaii;
he wants to let these people relate their
own experiences; and we do not think
that Mr.. Steven could offer a fairer
proposition to the Filipino people.
Regarding the Filipinos now i'll Ha'
wall, Mr.. Steven had this to say:
''In many ways the F'ilipinos beat
any class of labor we have ever tried
down there The F'ilipinos 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.
"And then they save up their money.
About the first thing they did after
they got settled down there was to open
bank accounts, and most of them have
quite a little pile on deposit.
~ understand that reports of fights
between Luzon and Cebu laborers have
reached the Philippines. These reports
have been greatly exaggerated. There
was Just one little insignificant fight,
and that WASH an organized battle
with Cebuanos on one side and Luzon
people on the other. 1t was nothing
but a common fight between few Of
the men, such as is liable to happen
anywhere. But it CHANGED that the
| trouble arose between a couple of Cebu
people and a couple of Manila people,
and the Honolulu papers tried to make
/ racial war out of it.
''We are very we'll satisfied with the
men we have recruited in the Philip
pines, and we want to get more Fill
pinos."
Mr.. Steven goes to Siquijor this morn
ing and expects to be back in Cebu to-
morrow evening At Hongkong he pur-
chased a little steamer, so that he does
not have to depend upon Others for
Transportation between the islands when
he goes out to recruit laborers. The
steamer will arrive in Cebu within the
next connie of weeks.