The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-04-15
NEW laws
CConllnucd from pago ONE

Wholesale scale, advancing moneys 10
iaborcrs, preparing passages. adyanc.
Ing expenses and ohurterlng steamers
To- cary the laborers away.
Laborers Easily Deceived.
The laborers brought to Hawaii are
unfamiliar with the English language,
are ignorant, often improvident ana
easily misled and imposed upon 10y
emlgrant agents speaking their own
language They are easily attracted
by offers OF higher wages on the
Coast and In Alaska without realiz.
ing that such wages are for short
season, whereas the wages OF the
Territory are available all the year
round In the past large numbers of
laborers have been led by the prom
Uses and false representations as to
conditions of labor elsewhere to
leave Hawaii and they have found
| themselves at the close of the work
ing season in destitute circumstances
and a charge upon the people among
whom they have gone. On account
of this condition of affairs the Sugar
Planters Association have had to
make arrangements for the return of
these laborers at great expense.
ENtraVaeant Promises.
The business of inducing laborers
to leave Hawai- has in the past and
may reasonably be expected to be in
the future conducted by corporations
having no property in the Territory
and by means of agents having little
or no property therein, the latter be-
ing paid according to the number of
laborers secured The natural result
of all this is that the agents are led
to obtaining laboreTs promiscuousy
among the employed as well as the
unemployed, by means of false and
eXtravagant representations and
promises, and by stirring them into
unjustifiable unrest, dissatisfaction
and hostility towards their employers.
The agents have no feeling of re-
sponsibility to the authority or citi-
zens of Hawaii and the business is
frequently conducted by principals
and agents in evasion or open def.
ance of the laws of the Territory, SO
as to create general unrest and appre
hension among the citizens of the
Territory.
irresponsible Agents.
Owing to the irresponsible charac
ter Of the agents the conduct of the
business in the past has resulted il
many cases in which husbands have
been induced to leave their wives
against the will and often withou
the prior knowledge of their wfve
and without providing for such wive
and many cases in which minors hav,
been induced to leave the Territor.
without the consent or knowledge o
,. their parents. Prior to the passing o
this act no Territorial authority hal
6 any check or knowledge of the ulti
o mate destination of the laborers in
duced to leave and there have beef
o cases where the persons so induce,
o to leave have died where there wer
r no established authorities to issu
r certificates of death and no means o
procuring satisfactory proof of death
- whereby the families of such me-
q could receive the benefits due ther
h from certain mutual beneficiary socit
G ties of which said men were men
bers.
(. Proper Regulations.
q The return further alleges that
has been frequently impracticable t
ID detect the emigrant agents operatin
N among the laborers because tn
ID agents are unknown and obscure meI
ID coming and going secretly, and opel
n ating largely at night and throug
le gamblers and other criminal classe
n. who live on the laborers. The pre-
vision of Act As requiring an agent t
furnish certain statements const
tutes a necessary and proper polio
- regulation. In the case of laborer
=, brought from the Philippines tn
h Government of the Philippines exact
condition that three years col
4 tract with ~each laborer be entere
T into Though many labOrers so r,
cruited have deserted there has nc
been an instance of the Hawaiia