The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-04-05
WHAT ACTUALLY
WAS PROMISED
Russians Who Arrived Yesterday
Had Certainly Not Been
Led Astray.
tFrOm Sundays AdvertIser.l


from the heaps Of chat in the Russian
matter establishes pretty fairly the
fact that there has been no misrepre.
sensations made in Hardin by Akin
son or Perelstrous. This opinion was
arrived at yesterday to the satisfac.
tion of The Advertiser after a repre-
sentative Of this paper had sat beside
Raymond @. Brown, immigration in.
spector, at the federal immigration
station during the entire examination
of the Russians who arrived yesterday
morning on the China.
These Russians have only the things
told them before leaving their homes
to guide them; they have not had an
opportunity Of meeting with or con-
sulting any of the Russians previously
landed, and they were carefully ques-
toned to find out just what they had
been told by the agents Of the terri
torial board of immigration. In view
| of the talk of those Russians already
| admitted and in further view Of the
| fact that some of those examined yes
| terday are relatives of those already
here, it is decidedly pleasing to be able
to state that not one expected to re-
| ceive more than $22.50 a month in
wages, not one but had had explained
to him the difference between ruble
| and dollar, not one answered that
he had been promised any one of the
| extravagant things the batch already
here have been claiming. Uncon-
| sciously. one after another of the doz.
en- or SO men examined yesterday gave
| the lie to the agitators at work among
/
established the fact that true pre-.
sentation of plantation conditions had
been made by Perelstrous in his vari-
GUS talks with them during the recruit
ing campaign.
What is more, Inspector Brown, after
the examination yesterday, assured
The Advertiser representative that
equally strong evidence had been af-
forded by every Russian previously ex-
amined, not one of whom made any
pretense Of claiming anything like the
pay or conditions they are now so loud
ly insistent on. After their examina.
tion for entrance into the country the
ideas now advanced were evidently
handed out to them ready made.
A few examples of what was stated
yesterday at the immigration office are
here given, for comparison with the
claims which have been dished UP SC
often and so assuredly during the past
few weeks.
Anton Mikulin, who comes with a
wife and three small children, announc
ed himself as miner. Working at
his avocation in Russia he was able to
earn from twenty to thirty rubles q
month, an amount ON which he found
, himself barely able to live. He hat
no other source of income and had beer
able to save nothing. He arrives with
out any money and came here because
he had been told that there was work
here for everyone at wages running al
the start from forty to fortyfive rublet
a month, with prospects for advance
ment after he had learned the work
He had been told that some men were
) able to earn from seventy to eighty
rubles month. Perelstrous had told
him that the principal work in Hawaii
was farming on plantations.
eff you are admitted to the country
and a job on a.plantation were offered
you at from forty to forty-fve rnbles
a month. would you accept such an
offer?' Mr.. Brown asked him.
eyes. I wonld accept work right
away at that figure They tell me
can get forty rubles, house for my
family and a piece of garden land tc
work. answered the Russian, who Il
big, burly, handsome chap of about
thirty-fve years old. He stated fur
Their that he was not sure how much
garden land he might get, but expected
about a quarter of Russian acre. He
did not know one plantation from an
nth ha1 Ia. Al z.
view to. go to work.
Ivan Troshin, twenty-seven years old
with wife and two children, stated that
he had been railroad foreman in Man
I, churia. He can read and write. Hit
J passage was paid here by someone, by
some man who told him that if ht
would come to Hawaii the plantations
would pay his way. He did not know
exactly who the man was but stated
that he was "some Jew with beard. ;
"You say the planters would pa,
your fare. Do You mean the planter
or the government7" he was asked.
~ dom 7 know who was going Il
q pay it. The man said someone woul'
3 pay it," was the answer. He state,
that he had fifty rnbles of capital
which represented the savings of tw,
3 years work ON the railroad, his wag
: having been thirty-fve rubles mont
] and a free house. He stated that h
Q wanted work in Hawaii, farm work b,
: preference.
"Wbat wages do you expect TO &c
8 for working on farm here" asked tn
inspector.
r az don I know. The man said W,
could get from forty to forty.fy'
: rubles a month. which was the same, h
said, as twenty-five dollars American
D money. ! don't care whore 90 /,
+ work so long M ! can make liyinl
0 for myself and family,
And 40 II went, Not one made an,
o claim that hc had been promised a dol
+ lar a day and more, nor that be- wa
10 have an eight hour day, or any on
81 the things now claimed, The mel
were all iaborefs. some minors, som
farmers, some railroad 6aggios, OIL
! one OF two had any 0ney AZ al an
every one announced his Intention o
iaLluo The dFsf fal that aaaraA