The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-03-31
LEGISLATURE
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miles of water, must be doing business
on a large scale and presumably can
afford to put up a $4,000 bond par.
ticularly when it is taken into con.
sideration that each laborer in this
territory costs the conservative figure
of 500. shipment of $50 laborers
would amount to the $4,000 required"
Protection to Laborers.
The distance at which a laborer
may find himself stranded if the re.
presentations of the agent are false
imposes a corresponding obligation
upon this territory to protect him.
The individual bond of 800 to be
given for each laborer recruited is
only a revival of a similar provision
in section 143 of the old civil code
which exacted a bond in the same
amount for each man taken from Ha-
wall by the whalers and which proved
salutary protection to the whalers
in the days of the whaling fleet. The
other regulations prescribed by this
act are likewise designed to prevent
irresponsible agents from misrepre-
senting the terms of proposed EN-.
ployment to the laborers they are
I recruiting and we think are justified
under the circumstances above de-
tailed.
For the purpose of safeguarding
the rights both of the public and OF
those who may hold licenses under
the present act, insert the following
sections in place of the repeating sec
ton of the present bill:
Existing Licenses.
"Act 81 of the Laws of 1905 is re
pealed, except as to the offenses com
mitted, acts done in violation of, OF
rights accrued or established under
the provisions of said act, and causes
either civil or criminal either pending
at the time this act shall go into eff
feet, or subsequently brought to en-
force any of the provisions of said
Act; and as to every such offense, act
and right, and actions to enforce the
same act above specified shall con
tinue in full force.
Every emigrant agent holding Ii
cense as such under existing Law
shall comply with the provisions Of
this act except that all vested or con
tract rights, if any, shall be preserved
to him, and that the license fee shall
not be payable by him during the un
expired term of his license"
Following Precedents.
The judiciary committee also re
commended Senate bill 1O9 making
it misdemeanor to entice or per
suade servants or laborers to leave
their employment or to. aid or abe
such leaving, and providing a pun
ishment. The report says: Acts O
this kind are common in all the south
ern states which, like the territory o
Hawaii, have agricultural resources
in excess of available labor supply
Many of these states go much furthei
than the bill in question; some states
IN addltlOn TO the provisions OF tn'
bill making it misdemeanor to haT
Dor or employ servants during tn,
term of their original employment
None of these have ever been declared
unconstitutional, so your committe,
. has no reason to doubt either tn,
! constitutionality or the ACCESSIBILITY o
? the proposed measure. Nevertheless
! your committee feels that the bill a
introduced is wider than the mischie
| that it is intended to remedy, AM
| therefore recommends the following
| amendments:
: I'm section 1,eline 1, strike out tn
: words, himself or agent and inser
the words promise of employment
: outside the territory of Hawaii
, ''In section /, line 5, after the wort
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