Evening bulletin., 1911-03-29
LABOR RECRUITING CRISIS!

lhe authoritative cable despatch of yesterday announcing
that the steamship Senator had sailed on secret mission
to Hawaii from San Francisco should bring home to every
citizen and resident of Hawaii the realization that only
prompt united and reSOe action avert serious indus
trial crisis in Hawaii. a
The Senator is said to be equipped to carry thousand
passengers Her secret mission to Hawaii no secret at ALL
We all know that the Senator is sailing on pratca cruise
to fitch from Hawaii every aborer they can lay their hands
on at time when Hawaii herself needs not only every lab
orer she now possesses but as many more within
can be obtained No crisis, however, is necessary and the
situation can be dealt with IF WE ACT AS A UNITED COM
MUNITY to epe this expedition and similar ones that are
to follow all to be operated on plan OF Wanton and selfish
attack upon community that is considered deenseess and
helpless to meet or avert them.
Three measures have been introduced in the Legislature
today that Will go long way towards giving the Senator
on her arrival reception that she will not court again and
there is substantial precedent for each OF the bills.
1t is true that the proposed act making it msdemeanOr
to entCe away aborers from their present employment
supported only by preCedenS in the southern States but
is apparent at glance that receives the support of the
great majority of the southern States and apparently is
where condemned as improper legislation and the south
the only territory on the mainland where agricultural pursuits
are carried forward under one management on large SCae
and therefore such legislation needed The north not
land of plantations; is land OF tarmS In the SOUTH Which
is land of plantations law making it mSdemeanor to
raid and enCe away the labor another and to make bSi
ness oft commonly accepted as necessary and proper not
only by the South but by the Supreme Court OF the United
States which has passed upon such laws
The same PRINCIPLE prevails in the northern States and
right in the old State of Massachusetts, supposed to be the
most liberal in its laws and institutions of any State in the
Union, civil action can be brought against anyone engaged
in the practices in question: in fact the Massachusetts courts
have gone far as to hold that action will lie for dam
ages where the labor raed and run off is not under
contract but working at the pleasure of the employer and
employee.
1t should be borne in mind that none of these proposed
acts attack question the right of the individual for himself
to 90 and sell his labor as he peaSeS but reaches the
who undertakes to carry on the business of radng labor
and for that purpose stirring up most of the time with prom
ses and representations that never lived up to and then
trOng first to market and then to another for money
and GAIN Persons employed reached by the law either
civil or criminal or bot in all enlightened communities and
even at the common law an action would lie against per-
son who makes business of such work.
Well informed lawyers say that today Mr. Craig has made
himself liable to civil suits that exist as matter of common
law in Hawaii for every aborer that he has entced away
from his employer here in Hawaii. The trouble that Mr.
Craig is absolutely irresponsible financially He comes safe
guarded by mpecunOSiy and writ of execution to enforce
the muttldinous claims for damages that now lawfully ex-
st against him would not result in dollars return No man
with means will ever be found engaged in the business.
Under these circumstances the only way to reach persons
so engaged is by additional statutory remedies which are
covered and provided for in the three bills that have been