The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-05-09
KOREAN STEVEDORES
As STRIEEBREAEERS
E1PPu uu SAYS THE ACTION OF
THE o. n. \ L. WAS
ARROGANT.

Japanese stevefedorcs on strike
against the o. r. & L., according to
the Nippu Jiji Of yesterday, are "de.
termined not to give IN, but As their
places have now been filled by Koreans
II is unlikely that they will be-
pressed to do 500
The strikers are warmly defended in
the Jill, who gives their side of the
trouble, stating in headlines that the
strike was brought on by "The AFRO.
giant Manner on the Part of the Com
pany," whose "msulting manager "
was the prime cause. The Jill says:
" About seventy japanese steve
dores of the Oahu Railroad Company
have left their work, angered at the
lack of reason on the part of their
manager. Hawaiian stevedores were
getting two dollars a day and the
Japanese only a dollar and quarter.
but the Japanese made no outerv,
quietly and peaceably attending to
their work, but lately they awoke to
the folly of accepting such pay and
asked, through a luna, for an Increase.
The manner of presenting this demand
was proper and peaceful.
"In March the company had raised
the pay from a dollar and fifteen cents
to dollar and a quarter, but the work
is very hard, the inside of the ware.
houses is very hot and the men have
to carry 125.pound sugar bags. Elk.
ceptlonally strong men are required to
do this work and even they can not
work every day. 1t was reasonable
that in March they should have asked
for and received this raise of ten cents
day.
"The read cause of the present trou-
BILE came through the fact that while
$l,9O is paid for Sunday work, when
the ten cent raise came the company
decided to stop all Sunday work and
adopted that as its policy. leaving
everything over until Monday. The
consequence was that on Monday last
the laborers had to work until eleven
o 'clock at night and for overtime only
got fifteen cents an hour. AT night, too,
the electric power is greater and the
machine carries five additional sacks of
sugar to load, making the work that
much harder Yet the men only got
| seventy-five cents overtime. AS a re.
suit of overtime work, too, many of
the Japanese have to lay off the next
day, and a policy which makes this
necessary seems. very foolish to the
Japanese
"Mr. Hart, the manager, tried to
crowd on night work. The Japanese
then asked for twenty-five cents an
hour overtime. Hart received this re-
quest with great rudeness and used
insulting language, ordering the men to
get out, whereupon the laborers. in
cited by his language. decided to strike
''The strikers seem to be determined
and deserve the strong support of the
public. The Japanese lupas remain on
the job and have been instructed ia
secure strikebreakeTs either in town OF
on the plantations. However no Japa.
nese viii respond to their calls, -
Korean Strikebreakers.
Yesterday no difficulty WIS found by
/ the company in filing up the vacan-
cies left bv the japanese strikers by
Koreans, who gladly accepted the dou'
BILE opportunity of earning good money
and yswiping the hated japanese at the
! same time
| Guards were stationed to see that no
violence was offered the strikebreakers.
! but none was attempted the japanese
keeping away, The work on the rail.
road wharves is now going on as usual