The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-04-18
LABORERS TO PAY
THE LICENSE FEE
onAio HAD SUCH MADE PART OF
THE CONTRACT DRAWN
UP AND STONED.

10 e.
We the undersigned, agree 90 work
for Frank b. Craig at Bristol bay,
Alaska. for the season beginning April
@, 1911. transportation, meals and
lodgings 10 be furnished free from the
time OF leaving San Francisco until re-
turn 10 same place Wages, $50 for
the season. less fare TO San Francisco
from Honolulu, quarantine expenses for |
ave days at Honolulu and license ex-
pense. All expenses to be paid by r. !
b. Craig and returned to him when |
men reach San Francisco and are
aboard boats ready to sail for Alaska.
Chu Chu's Pilikia.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 1.-Two
Chinese labor contractors stood on pier
a. Yesterday afternoon chanting terri '
BILE oriental baths and literally tear
ing their hair as they helplessly
watched. two hundred and sity.seven
swarming Hawaians, Porto Ricans and
Filipinos making their way turbulently
in the direction OF Chinatown. The
reason for the oaths and the tearing
of hair was that the two hundred and
sixtyseven had just jumped contracts
made in the Hawaiian Islands, from
whence .they were brought on the
steamer Korea, which arrived yester'
day morning, to work in Alaskan can
neries, leaving Chu Chu and All Hoo,
the contractors, "stuckH for about
$4,000, the cost of bringing them to San
Francisco.
The Pacific Mail pier looked like a
thickly populated South Sea island
when the Korea disgOrged her steerage
load of little brown men at about noon
They were instantly placed under the
surveillance of fifteen Morse patrol
men whose duty 1t was to keep them
herded together until they could be
put ON board packets for their dsti'
nation IN Alaska.
Trouble had been expected. And
trouble arrived, together with the
brown men. Somebody had told them
they weren I getting square deal
from the contractors in the matter OF
wages. Others had impaired to them
/ the information that Alaska is a place
of snow and ice, Incompatible with
tropical dispositions and negligee at
tire. Anyhow, they had all decided TO
jump their contracts.
All Hoo and Chu Chu knew all about
this. All Hoo having made the trip here
from Honolulu with the men. AS soon
as the Korea reached quarantine the
Morse patrolmen We're engaged, and all
might have gone well had not Fill
pino agitator appeared at the wharf,
where he harangued his brothers to the
effect that something was being put
over on them. - After this stump speech
by l.. c. |. Banoz, the agitator, nothing
could move the two hundred and sixty
seven Hawaiians, Filipinos and Porto
Ricans. They stampeded like sheep for
liberty. Threats, persuasion and prom
Uses were alike unavailing.
owe II either get out of this or go to
RAIL- was the revolutionary dictum pro
nounced by the leaders. For three hours
and half the Chinese, the Morse pa
trolmen and agents of the Alaska Pack
ers' Association, for whose canneries
the men were signed, arbitrated and
parleyed. Everybody got so peevish as
TO threaten to push one another off the
pier.
Contract Finally Presented.
A contract was finally presented tc
the men, giving them better wages thar
, they had been offered by the agents IL
, Honolulu, but they refused to sign, and
asked for still higher pay. Then thu
Chinese agents gave up, the Morse mel
, gave up and everybody gave up. There
was one wild whoop, and the pent'ul
, tide of the little brown men swept bag
gage and all into the street. When i
was too late All Hoo and Chu Chu re
! pented, and tried to stop the men, blu
it was like pushing against the tid'
with shingle.
: OF the intended cannery workmen
one hundred and sixty were Filipinos
, The remainder were in about equa
proportions Hawaiians and Port
Ricans, all picked up at Honolulu. Mos
of them were mere boys, not over eigh
l. teen or twenty years old, and only
small part of them carried baggage
They presented an extremely tropica
appearance, with their white jacket
and absence of underwear, and loOke'
, more appropriately costumed for pea
nut ranch than the cold winds of Bris
j toll bay.
Once in the street, the half-clad
wonder.eyed youths clambered aboar
transfer wagons, street cars-anythin
). that was in waiting-and with some Q
d them bringing up the rear on foot, mad
T up a long caravan headed for Chini
l. town. Half dozen labor agents an
d Filipino contractors gathered on tn
outskirts, and in a few moments ha
. constituted themselves leaders plen
y p0tentiary of the throng. Under thel
4 guidance they were taken to the Fill
d Pine Club, ON Stockton street betwee
9 Pacific and jackson. Most of them wi
/ probably land in the canneries EVENT.
ally, under contracts more favorable {
J. less favorable, as the case may be, tina
g the one they jumped.
a The men would have little left, wit
- transportation, quarantine charges an
It license expenses, since a large porto
10 of their wages would also 60 of neee
10 sity for suitable clothing when the
o reached Alaska.
a In former years the Alaska Packer
III Association hired all its men under IL
N Chinese contract system. This year
N was determined to hire men through i
"a own agents in an attempt to obviai
10 supposed overcharges to the eompau
for labor, and to the men for elothin
and other supplies. All Hoo and Oh
10 Chu were in the employ of the cor
pany's agent.
Is While the Korea 3 consignment (
d, men were sure they wanted more pr
y than was stipulated IN their eontras