The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-04-29
Another Meeting Held at the
Camp in Iwilei Last
Night.
UGLY REPORTS ABROAD
Governor Frear Intimates That
the Immigrants Will Have
to Work Soon.
tFrom Wednesday acrert,ssr., ,

The idling Russians at IwileiSsamp
held another meeting last night. They
are holding meetings pretty Often now,
but no exact information is oby6fnable
as to just what they are talking about.
Enough is known, however, to justify
some pretty serious rumors about pos.
sibilities of impending trouble, and the
authorities may soon take action.
"Go to work or get out" is liable
to be the ultimatum delivered by the
territorial government to the indolent
Russian immigrants who prefer to live
as common vagrants or worse rather
than earn their black bread by the
sweat of their brows. The Governor
and his department heads have for sew.
eral days been holding conferences to
decide just how the vexed Russian
problem shall be solved, and although
the Governor states that no final de-
cision has yet been reached, he inti-
mates that it will be question of
work or go back to Russia.
Governor Frear yesterday afternoon
made the statement that the confer
ences are being held.
"Have you come to any final con-
clusion7' he was asked.
"No, we have not decided absolutely
on anything" he replied.
"1s the solution of the problem liza
BILE to be along the line of deportation
unless the Russians consent to go to
work."
"Well," replied Governor Frear
mildly, "we would like to see them go
to work or we would like to get rid of
them. -
This, coming from the reserved chief
executive of the Territory, is almost
| tantamount to statement that unless
the immigrants decide to be something
other than vagrants and menace to
the health of the community, steps will
be taken to have them sent back to
Manchuria whence they came.
The Russians have been treated with
the utmost consideration ever since
their arrival in Hawaii, but their OBJ.
stinacy, contumacy, absolute disregard
of the laws of health and the safety OF
the community, and the stories that are
being circulated in regard to the un.
speakable moral condition-or immoral
conditioner their camp at Iwilei
seem at last to have aroused the ad
ministration to a realization of the
fact that something must be done and
that mollycoddling must be stopped.
i The Russians are camping on lanC
which they have no right to occupy
and large proportion of them are
vagrants. Some are worse, and if re
ports from the camp are to be believed
some are planning to be very mucf
worse, for it is stated that more thar
half of the bunch are men from whom
violence might be expected, in view OF
their past records. AS stated in The
Advertiser yesterday there is evidence
that many of those who came here a:
married couples were not married at all
but merely claimed to be married il
order to pass the local immigration of
, ficials. 1t is now stated further, tha
I. large proportion of the Immigrant
, came under assumed names.
, The agitator, Vasilieff, whose mucl
misspelled name has degenerated tt
> "Vaseline among most of the police
and others who have had to do witt
him, is to appear in the federal cour
! this morning on summons for con
tempt for refusing to respond to sub
poena. He is supposed to have beei
at the meeting last night.
1t is the belief of some that the Rus
SLAMS are discussing serious. acts o
violence. Those who have to do wit
them are going armed. From the cam
have come threats that there will b
some bomb-throwing if there are an
efforts to enforce vagrancy laws, o
! otherwise compel the Russians to work
, There was meeting yesterday morn
ing in the office of Governor Freal
Mt which the Governor, Secretary Mot
Smith. Attorney General Lindsay an
Sheriff Jarrett were present. The sui
iect is said to have been the conditio
of the Russian camp and the rumol
from the camp of impending troubl
The authorities are keeping clos
,. watch and will be prepared TO hand
= any pilikia that is started.
= In the meantime, the prospect of IL
y arrival of lot more Russians is nj
- cheering to anybody. And when JaC
y Atkinson, who is on his way bac
=, arrives, he will not be pleased by Il
u comments he is likely TO hear on II
bunch now here.