Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-09-04

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Increasing employment OF Or,entals u.
skilled positions has not only lowered
the average OF all workers In this class, |
but also the average wage of each nom |
Asiatic race considered separately"
Plantation Wages
Referring to plantation labor, he
says: There are no reliable means OIL
knowing. taking Into account the cost
of living az well "a actual wages, the
economic condition of Hawaiian work
ers IL improving slower or faster than
the condition Of workers upon the Pa
cihc Coast. But there Is no inmedi-
ate prospect that conditions In these
two places will be equalIzed. The dlf-
ferences Of. Industries. traditions and
race are too great.
However. a comparison of Hawaiian
conditions with those of California II
hardly a fair one. More properly Ha-
tropical and insular countries having
similar Industries. Yet this compare
son must be conditioned by important
distinction. without attempting eth
er to confirm or deny casual relation
between the two facts, there is no
|cane-producing country outside the
American tariff are where sugar Is so
highly protected az in Hawaii. There
IL no important sugar cane region ex-
cept Queensland and Cuba where the
Ill.
field labor AZ In Hawaii. The condi-
ton Of labor In Hawaii In better than
In Madeira and the Azores--white la
Dor countries--for the Territory Is now
drawing it's main supply of imml
grants from those islands. Wages are
higher than IN Porto Rica. and the
material environment OF labor IL bet
Ter than In most parts Of the West In
dies .,H.at "r.... 4uHl :,
| immigration and Settlement.
Dealing with this, the. report says:
The total eject OF the restrictions
upon oriental immigration into Hawaii
Will probably be To hasten the fOrma-
ton Of n nntive mixed race of pre-
ponderant Polynenian and Monaghan
derivation, biit with an. easily traceabie
Caucasian strain. The Chinese element
promises to be largely absorbed In this
way within another generation. Iso-
lated instances OF the intermarriage Of
Japanese with Portuguese and mestlzos
Indicate, the beginning OF a tendency
likely TO Increase with longer race con
tact II is not impossible that the SEN
timent of Oriental iaborers In Hawaii
Will soon be not altogether adverse to
such restriction Of Asiatic immigra-
tion az win enable the local workers
to maintain higher wages. Occasional
Instances OF this sentiment already
manifest themselves. Ft 90 q
Meantime the planters association
has been recruiting labor In the Phil
ippines, not without success. ind upon
the whole probably to the advantage Of
the FilipinOs. The better pay offered
In Hawaii III sufficient when backed by
free passage and other Inducements.
to draw labor away. even from Manila
and Philippine plating districts. where
the supply of workers h hardly sufii-
cient for local needs. Voluntary labor
Immigration from the Philippines to
Hawaii may In time follow. rs the A.
nanclal and commercial relations OF the
two countries are growing closer.
The real present desire of the peo-
pie of the Territory IL to attract and
L.
grants of Caucasian stock who will be-
come citizens. Political considerations
on one hand, military considerations
more or less remote on the other, and
more powerful than either with those
whose chief concern IL as employers)
In desire to rid once and for all OF the
constant expense and trouble of seek
ink labor away from home In the face
of the growing legal and economic OBJ
lstacies, have created this sentiment In
favor OF an immigration policy differ-
lent from that pursued In the days oil
lcontract labor. An added inducement
for plantation laborers to diversity and
increase the Caucasian labor force was
the strike OF Japanese field workers N
1903"
Il Strikes. IA
i Summarizing as to the Japanese
strlke and the likelihood Of another
breaking out, he says: "A strike con-
Quoted on exclusively national lines car
, hardly succeed IN Hawaii. Employers
are too well organized, disciplined and
financed. Probably no one nationalit.
Will ever again constitute so large O
fpart of the plantation force as did thu
Japanese In 1909.
\ Meantime the Introduction Of bo'
! muses.. which are practically condition.
al preferred payments. forfeitable by
; striking. and cultivation contracts
which give each laborer property In
terest In the cane which he can main
tain only by constant attention 10 IL
, cultivation and prompt harvesting ant
!, ma mn facturs nj, ,,,t ,yritv will proha hlx