The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-04-26
PREPARING FOR
ANOTHER STRIKE
Such Is Said to Be Quietly Co
ing on Among Japanese on
All Plantations.
MAKING KEEPS IN TOUCH
Japanese Had Advance Inforna-
ton of Worthlessness of Rus
slams From Their Consul.


slams From Their Consul.
"The Japanese laborers throughout
the Islands are preparing for another
strike,' said prominent Japanese
yesterday, who is in close touch with
the labor situation. "There is a great
deal of dissatisfaction on the planta-
tions and an organization is being
quietly perfected that will suddenly
|paralyze this Territory when it becomes
active. The next strike will be right
in the middle of grinding season and
it will not be. confined to Oahu, where
strikebreakers are available.n
This bears out what has been report
ed from other sources to The Adver.
tiser. There win be nothing doing un.
til the leaders, Maxine, Negoro and
Soga have served out their Jail sen.
tences. In the meanwhile the work Of
organization will be going on, without
a stop. When the time comes, the Jap
anese on the majority of the planta-
tions will stop work altogether, picking
out time when the effect will be most
felt by the plantations.
1t is known that Maxine and his as.
sociates are keeping in touch with the
situation. They themselves, are not,
it is understood, doing any of the plan
ming, but they are being kept informed
of what is going on.
Thn la,1 CO al
| of dissatisfaction among the Japanese,
its policy being the same today as it
was a year ago, when it was preaching
strike and threatening the plantation
managers with what was about to hap
pen. The Jiji is widely circulated, a
large increase in the capital stock of
the publishing corporation having been
readily taken up, thus furnishing funds
for the continuance of it's campaign
while its regular editor is in Jail. 1t
is read in every plantation camp in the
Islands and its work is effective.
The principal trouble comes, accord.
ing to japanese information, from an
alleged abuse of the contract system
On some plantations, only oral con.
tracts are made, the japanese who in.
sist on having written contracts being
discharged as agitators. Those who
accept the oral contracts find, so report
goes, that when the final settlement is
made it is discovered that there is a
difference between the agreement as
viewed by the contractor and by The
plantation manager, when the former
is informed that the mistake has beer
through a faulty translation of hi
Il words nv thp intprnreters
The bonus system is not thorough,
understood by the laborers and thei
| ignorance is being taken advantage of
say the better informed Japanese.
All these things, and the fact tina
there is on some plantations enough o.
severity on the part of the lunas to fur
nish the Jiji with material on "slav,
drivers, are being taken advantag
of to foment future trouble and t,
create huge Japanese labor union.
No Money for Russians.
1t has been supposed by some tha
there has been n Japanese fund in us
. to prevent the Russian experimen
turning out success. The best il
formed Japanese in Honolulu laugh q
this suggestion.
"What would be the use of the JaI
anese spending any money to kee
these Russians from going to work7
asked one of them of The Advertise
representative yesterday. "The Jap,
nese knew before these Russian cam
that they would be no good.
"We heard through consular report
that the Hawaiian labor agents wei
collecting vagrants and loafers in Ha
bin, and the reports prophesied thf
the experiment would end in failur
After that We paid no more attentio
Ito the Russians until they arrived her
"Then, L confess, the Japanese wei
somewhat astonished. The first Ru
sians appeared so able and seemed I
Igive so much satisfaction that v
Thought our Harbin consul was wror
and that he had misled us. Then can
the troubles, ending in what you CT
see down in Iwilei. Our consul WI
fright. These Russians will never !
rivals of the japanese and we do N
have to worry about their oppositio
"Another reason why the Japane
took no pains or went to no expense
interfere with the Russians: Suppo
we could have made the experiment
failure if it had turned out that tn,
were any good, what reason had we
think that the planters would try
get more Japanesei They have 9th
lplaces to turn to; Portugal, for
stance. If the Russians are no good,
does not help us much. /"