The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-08-22
CUTTING DOWN
KEALOHA' 5 SCALE
Laborers Glad TO Get Real Money
Even NJ Discount-Better
Than Big Promises.
(Mail Special to Tho Adycrtiscrl

(Mail Special to The Advcrtiscr)
lllI.O, August lS.-rhc North llilo
road department road tanglc was fin.
ally Strengthened out, at least in part,
last week, when the board of super
visors distributed to the North llilo
road laborcrs their pay for the months
of May, June and July. The money
was badly needed by the laborers, who
were placed in the prcdicamcnt of hay
ing to depend on their not too elastic
credit, simply because of the Juggling
of road finances which had been done
BY their supcriors.
The supervisors were fully determin-
cd that they would not pay the men
at the cxtravagnnt rates of wages at
which Kcaloha had engaged them, but
considerable care was exercised by the
county fathers to arrive ut what would
seem to be equitable rates of componsa.
! tfon.
| Moses Kawaha, who figured on Kea
loha s payroll as n carpenter, was put
| through n REORGANIZATION before the
board, sitting as committee Of the
| whole, the examination being conducted
by Deputy County Attorney Hcen Ike
aloha was also questioned.
81 see,'' said ieen, "that Kawaha
was paid 1919 day in April, but that
in May and June his pay was raised
to $3.50. Why9"
"Well, - replied Kcaloha, "his work
in the two latter months was more
dangerous. lie had to climb up on
steep places.
Kealoha added that he considered
Kawaha a iirst-class carpenter. Kawa.
ha himself, modestly, placed the same
estimate on his professional ability.
This proved n great surprise to Su-
pervisor Kauhane lie said that he
had known Kawaha from his infancy,
and that in all that gentleman IS career
he had never known him to do any.
thing but loaf. He had never even
heard that lie was n carpenter.
Ewaliko added that he had once en-
ployed Kawaha for one day Mt $3.50.
Then Kawaha had struck for higher
wages, whereupon Ewaliko had dis
pensed with his services, as he thought
he was not worth even the $3.50.
Alfonso Marquee another Kealoha
favorite, was also the subject of a
minute inquiry 1t was shown, as had
been shown weeks before by Gooding
Field, that Marquee worked for the
South IIilo road department for $3.50
day Ewaliko added that he had dis
charged him because he did not attend
to his work Marquee Immediately re-
paired to the court of malcontents who
found a Nirvana with Koaloha at Pa
paaloa, and hero he received wages al
the ratio of $3.50 Il day.
After having gathered this evidence
and more, the supervisors set to work
at slashing the payrolls. They did &c
by reducing the rate of pay Of al
ordinary laborcrs from 81 GO and $3.50
which were the rates offered by Ike
aloha, to uniform rate of $50 day
The pay of ordinary road lunas was cut
, from $3.50 to $500 "A day. Only one
luna, Kcawchano, who is also a compe
, tent carpenter, was allowed $3.50 IA day
which is said to he the rate at which
he had been paid for years.
All the fnvoIitcs were dealt will
severely. Moses Kawaha for instance
being bumped from $3.50 to 81 fiat.
The saving thus effected amounts t.
several hundreds of dollars n month
, and most of the men are reported t.
he quito satisfied, ms they would rathel
have the real money handed out by
; the board even if the amounts arr
, comparatively modest, than the gilt
! tering promises Of Kealoha, which ear
, not buy poi and fish.
The board of supervisors did no
pass on the claims for materials ant
, supplies for North llilo which hay
been accommodating for several months
> These include claims for great quaint
! ties of stuff, which is held to be ut
terly unnecessary, and while the super
, visors held up the demands primaril
for the very good reason that ther
!, were no funds with which to pay them
! it is likely that there will be. some dit
: iculty in getting through some of tn
most Ho0raut lillg