The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-09-01
LABOR UNIONS
TIP THEIR HAND
Opposed 10 immigration and
Want CampbeITs Work
Prevented.

| NMnil special 70 The AdYcrtiacr.)
HIIO, August as.-rhat tho recent.
~ organized labor union here Is in.
tended for political purposes altogether
and that a part Of tho work TO be un.
acrtaken is the hampering and the pos.
sible killing Of the work OF the bureau
Of immigration was made plaza during
The week. Ewaliko, the great man in
the union movement, announced proud
/ " the other day that no had taken
the first step 60 queer immigration
/ Agent Campbell's mission In Spnin and
Portugal and had forwarded to President
Gompers Of the American Federation
sof Labor, to Commissioner Of Immigra-
tion Keefe, who recently made visit
to the Islands TO report on local labor
conditions, and to Secretary FOuch Of
the Pacific District Longshoreman q
Union copies of the article which ap.
poared in The Advertiser last week to
the effect that Campbell was preparing
to rush immigrants into the Territory
before the new immigration law be-
comes effective. He asked that the
labor leaders take this matter up.
PoliticO- Laborers.
AS the Hilo labor union is increasing
ia membership the politicians are fore
handedly getting their sheet anchors
out to windward and are becoming
members thereof. Thus some strange
Iaborers are now on the rolls. County
Attorney Beers has long been mem
Der. County Treasurer Swain and
Auditor Magazine become members Of
the union Mt the meeting last week,
and, according TO Ewaliko, Sheriff Pa
has asked that he be admitted as a
member of the organization.
Cinch on Road Work.
In addition to these Senator Make.
kau is after membership, says Ewaliko,
with the purpose of organizing the
laborers in Homalxua in readiness for
the road work under the loan fund
commission 1t is his plan to have
branch in Hamakua so organized that
it can bid for belt road work, and
as only citizen labor can be employed,
it would seem that if this plan is car
ried through, the laborers will have the
situation in their control On the other
| hand, it appears that the willy sena-
tor, who always likes having several
strings to his bow, is having an under
! standing with the belt road commits
sioners, whose mouthpiece he will be
in Hama kua, according to the report
which is circulating among the Hilo
politicians. At least, Makekau was in
Eiilo for few days last week, and
he blew out suddenly and unexpected
ly on Friday morning, very prominent
citizen having asked him to 90 to Ka-
walhae to confer with Alfred Carter
of the belt road commission there.
The union held a meeting last Fri
day evening, but as Ewaliko was i'll
and did not attend, there was not much
business of general interest transacted.
Other Unions Forming.
Worlmen engaged in branches Of
labor other than stevedoring, lumber
handling and road work, are now get
ting read to organize unions here. Thus
the local painters last week sent their
application for a charter, accompanied
by the necessary cash, to the headquar-
tiers on the mainland, and it is re.
ported that the local carpenters are
getting ready to follow suit. The plan
is, when a sufficient number of these
different union branches have been or.
ganized, to have a labor council ca
tablished, to which the various unions
send delegates and which acts as a
central body which looks after the
common interests of the different or
CARNATIONS.
Maui Heard From.
Ewaliko last week received request
from workmen at Kahului to 90 there
to organize union. He has written
that he will do so, provided his travel.
ing expenses are paid. Representative
kawewehi, who asked for assistance in
organizing union branch at KaiIua.
has been instructed to call a preli.
minary meeting to show what he can
do.
No Asiatic Wanted.
Secretary Fouch of the Pacific Dis.
triet of the Longshoremen' Associa-
tion has written an answer to the let
ter sent him by Ewaliko asking what
stand the union should take in regard
to the admission of citizen Asiatics.
Fouch wrote that he had made care
full examination of the constitution of
the association and had found nothing
which would prevent their admission
to membership. Still, he advised that,
in order to avoid complications, it
might be as well to admit no Asiatics
in the future. Ewaliko says, however,
that he will take on his own shoulders
the responsibility for admitting such
applicants, and that he will write to
the leaders in the mainland that con-
ditions here are SO different from those
on the mainland that his course is the
best one. .firAfi