The Hawaiian gazette., 1913-02-14
COMPLAINT MADE
BY FILIP|NOS
Spokesman Alleges Bad Treat,
ment of Sick on the Part
OF Plantations.

Charges that the plantations are not
keeping their contracts with the Fill
pinos brought here as lahorers, In re-
spect to the clause which guarantees
them from medical attendance and at
tention in case of sickness, and that in
stead Filipnos who are i'll and unable
to work are shipped into Honolulu to
become charge on the city, are made
by b. A. Lionson, the Filipino proprie
tor of dancing academy and who says
he is secretary of the Filipino Mission.
Lionson declares that on three diff
ferent occasions recently he has found
Filipinos destitute and i'll in this city,
who had been sent away from the pfan-
tations. One of these had beri.b .berI, an
other was crippled, and the third man,
| he says he found in the railroad yards
early yesterday morning suffering from
n hemorrhage and almost in dying
condition. He said he took the last
named case to the free dispensary He
gave this man S name as Luis Unac-
dales, native of Iloilo and produced
the metal tag showing the man IS plan
| tation number to be 7246. LI6nson says
he understood the man to say that he
came from Wailua plantation; that he
had become too i'll to work, and that
the timekeeper or overseer had bought
him railroad ticket, placed him on the
train and told him to 90 to hospital,
giving him a note which he said would
admit him. Lionson says the note
which was unsigned, merely said: cad
nit bearer to missionary hospital"
According to Lionson, Unacdales was
brought to Honolulu from the Philip
pines but three months ago, and had
been on the plantation but month. II
the man is sufferer from tuberculosis
Lionson says that according to his un'
derstanding of the health regulations
the man should not have been allowed
to leave Manila for the Territory.
Time to Speak Out
: "We have kept silent, before be
, cause we knew that many people die
not like us, but now it is the time t.
4 speak, he said; "and i will ask Th'
: Advertiser to say that the plantations
are not treating many of my county
: men fairly. They bring them here will
contracts saying they win take care o.
j them when they are sick, and instead
= turn them into the street to die hk,
: dogs. Have we been under the Amer
lean government thirteen years, onl,
+ to be treated like dogsl Such thing
Q should not be.
t "Another thing, 90 among my owl
J. people great deal and l find many o
G them with bad complaints which shoul
S be known to the authorities. The trou
BILE is that most of the men are ignol
Q ant and in fear of hospitals, because 4
q the Philippines they have cholera and
y man is taken away to a hospital an
dies and does not return, and his re
'e atives being ignorant, think he wa
o killed. What is needed here are som
r Filipino inspectors who will be truste
A. by the men because of coming frol
the same country and speak their lai
l. guage. These inspectors could explai
is to them that they should not fear an
rs then they would tell of their Hines
10 and be willing to be cured.
is "There is not enough inspection {
Filipino and other houses here. In n
lama, where 1 live, is n Filipino WI
is in very bad shape but no inspect'
has been near him. In the Philippine
an inspector visits every house evel
tewenty four hours, and the COVER
ment knows where each ease of sickne
i and what it is. This should be doi
here, but most of all thing the owne
Of the plantations should know that &
Filipinos they bring here are not bell
treated properly.
bo "If something IS not done soon '
~. must complain to the Governor Gener
. of the Philippines so that those W
.or como in the future will know that III
Sa will be taken care Of when M