The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-11-01
ACTUAL FIGURES
VERSUS HOT AIR
Facts Show Russians to Have
Had No Effect on the
Wage Scale.

IN Honolulu has been fled with the.
board of immigration. II will effectual.
ly quiet all the demagogic utterances
which have been made purely for polit-
ical effect without consideration for
actual facts and figures.
This report, when completed, will
show, as the figures now gathered show,
that the presence of the Slavic immi-
grants in Hawaii and in Honolulu has
not lowered wages and that there is
no chance of them doing so.
On the other hand, most of the Rus.
slams are drawing wages equal to those
of Hawaiian workmen IN positions
where the Russians are appointed only
after the available Hawaiian labor has
run out and that in many cases the
Russians are drawing higher wages
under the same conditions.
The whole table is conclusive argu-
ment that conditions in Honolulu are
changing to a point where rapid de-
velopment will need all and more labor
than the Islands now offer or win offer
for long time to come.
These figures are based on 3S9 Rus.
slams interrogated by the agents of the
board under direction of the superin-
tendent of immigration, DIR. Victor S.
Clark. The Russians numbered con.
stitute the major portion of the Rus.
sian colony in Honolulu and take in
the classes into which the colony has
divided itself.
The figures are still subject to modi-
fication to a slight degree, while being
at the same time absolutely correct, the
information which gave rise to them
being furnished by the Russians them.
selves.
The $3.50 persons are divided as fol.
lows: Single men, so; married men,
50; single women, 9; married women,
50; married women not living with
! their husbands, 10; boys, 50; girls, 80.
OF those women not living with their
husbands most are the wives OF those
men who went to the Coast, in some
instances deserting them and in others
with the honest intention of sending for
them at the first opportunity. The slow
ness with which those opportunities
have appeared indicate that the Coast
has presented to them hvelihoods no.
better and probably not as good as
their companions have found in Homo
lulu.
the Territory got rid of the agitators
who caused so much trouble upon the
arrival of the Russians here and is bet
ter off for their absence, whether their
wives are or not.
The greater portion, probably sixty
per cent, are no longer living in Iwilei
but have moved to the various tene-
ments around town and are living along
the same lines as are the laborers of
other nationalities, adding to the trade
of the storekeepers and the landlords
without depriving anyone else of a live
lihood. There are still some living in
the Iwilei barracks, in the stockades
and in the camp, but altogether they
do not equal the number of those who
/ have moved to the tenements.
AS matter of comparison the fol-
! lowing figures are presented to show
the percentage of those of the Russians
who are working regularly, the first
number representing the entire number
and the second number those who are
working regularly.
Single men, so, 80; married men, 60,
81; single women, 9, 2; married women,
60, 2; women not with husbands, 10,
| z; boys, SO, IL; girls, 50, Z.
Those who are working irregularly
at odd jobs and about the wharves,
tOtaling three days or SO out of the
week, are as follows: Single men, Ii;
married men, %; single women, 2.
Unemployed; single men, IL; mar
ried men, 10; single women, 4.
These are fair figures and show that
the Russians have taken normal posi-
tion in society. Those not employed
represent men who in some cases hold
a decided aversion to working at any
thing, a fault not original to, OF
monOpolized by, them.
These figures have been changed
since they were taken a week or so ago
by a number of Russians who have
gone to the plantations, the labor bu.
reau of the planters association re.
porting about twenty-one who have tax.
en- advantage of their offers. This
number is said to include many OF
those who appeared in the statistics
compiled as unemployed
The wage table, however, is the most
important part of the report. 1t shows
the average wage of the single men to
be 81. AT day and of the married mer
to be 81 .S4 a day. The average wage
on the Coast enjoyed by the laborere
who are picking California's fruit
building her railroads and highway
and performing the other unskilled la
, Dor is 81 so day. The contrast il
interesting in the face of recent pohti
cal utterances.
e The highest wages are recorded al
follows; For single men, 80; married
men, SO, and single women, Sl.15. TIVE
: married women are drawing Sl2 I
], month and 50 Is recorded as the highes
wage being paid to boys and girls. On
of the latter who draws the amount Il
milliner.
Those who are drawing the highes
a wages noted are two single men, twl
0 married men, and one single women.
The lowest wages are for single men
e. married men, the same, aud singh
women sixty cents a day. The numbe
7 drawing these amounts are fve singh
0 men, two married men, aud one singl
woman
q The average wages quoted above ar
/, the actual wages In a majority Of eases
/ Forty Of the children are ATTENDING
the public schools whore they are sail
9 20 be showing commendable bnghines
ana Willingness 90 study Seventy psI
cons, including some adults, are attend
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