The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-03-04
FORMULATE 4
STRING OF DEMANDS
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advice TO go to work on the plantation
was given, there was unmistakable
kissing from the throng of men, wedged
in close circle about the speaker.
"where do You want 10 got" asked
Mr.. Brown.
''We want to go back to Russia, "
came a chorus of those in the very
front, the leaders, evidently, of the
banded community.
"Well, you car 60 to Russia, Jeru-
salem or Kakaako. ! have nothing to
turning away.
Not Public Charges yet
"Well, they do not seem TO have
become exactly public charges as yet,
| remarked District Attorney Breckons.
/ find that one of the men is a first
| class whist player and some others are
| fair. If they can cut cane with the
same muscular energy they can throw
down trumps, | would say they would
be frst.elass laborers. Just look
around" and the official swept the
! circle of squatting households with his
/ pointing finger and tell me if every
1
| As matter of fact, except at those
| periods when the men were declining
to listen to the advice of the ones at
tempting to make them see reason,
| everybody appeared happy. Grown
men, with foot-long boards, playfully
| swiped each other over the head and
! played tag among the family groups;
| in every corner and about every post
| bai abi nd
them, while other children skipped
from group to group. The checker
game and the whist table-the top of
| a chest-were centers of attraction and
the only angry happening was when
one great fellow shouldered bundle
and started for the door. His evident
intention to break from the ranks and
join the few in the planters shed
brought about his ears torrent or
representations and he carried his bun
die back to his own particular berth
| on the floor.
| This carefree appearance came after
the women and children had been fed.
| Prior to that time there were weeping
women, anxious men and wailing
babies.
Kaukau.
There are two words that the Rus
slams have learned since their arrival
and both are freely used. One is
"kaukau' and the other is thanks
The majority of the children acknowl-
edge gifts of food by saying "merci"
and by elaborate bows. Politeness is
one of their marked characteristics.
| Have Cabled Their Ambassador.
Yesterday the Russians took their
case to Washington, sending cable
to their ambassador Baron Rosen. The
text of their message indicates how
very little appreciation they have of
their position. In their request to
their country's representative they ask
that money be sent them sufficient to
pay their passage back to Russia OF
that the ambassador take steps to com
pei the Hawaiian planters to meet
their demand for work at the wages
they want.
Interpreters explained to them the
futility of making any such requests
but they insisted on it being sent as
they wanted it.
There Are Fifty Stubborn Ones
According to Interpreter Thoma,
| tDtEt are My VI Tue men VINO
have made up their minds that under
no circumstances will they go to work
and it is these fifty who are preventing
the others, having bound them by
promises to stick out for the demands
formulated at the beginning of thi.
article Some of the others are already
getting cold feet and are about ready
to accept the terms offered them il
Manchuria and repeated many times
since their arrival here.
That such is the case is borne out il
the following letter, brought to Tn,
Advertiser last night from the plant
ers' shed:
Are Net Deserters. -
Editor Advertiser Under the cap
ton of 90 Refuse to take plantation
iobs' the Star newspaper, of thi
date, publishes, on page eight of it
issue, a statement that "six, and onl,
six men are housed They ar
deserters from the Russian army am
are afraid 20 60 back 10 Russa.' Nov
we, the persons referred to, Gone fam
lily and nine single men) wish to en-
{ phatically deny that we are deserter
, from the army, but, to the contrary
= are anu were Tree meu-up 10 the Tin
that we came under the influence o
r the recruiting agents of the Hawaiian
planters. We came from Russia to Ha
wall ready to work-and are now wait
, ing to work; not to go back to tn
land of the Gar, where poverty an
lack Of profitable work are ever pres
ent; we wish to state that the mass o
, our countrymen, now at the Channe
, What are wrong in their statement
of the high wages and other extras OF
fered TO them just before they lief
Ma ehuria. at least that is our impres
sicu, for the wages promised us-an
we had neither less nor more offere
I then others-for the wages promise
= were $1,000 per month, or A roublei
, house, water, wood and medical attend
4 arce; women and children who wer
/. able to work were to have such en-
!. p'oyment AS they were fitted fori lad
i. ever eighteen years were TO hay