Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-11-21
governor Will
COMPL
!. FROM FILIPINO
Representative of Bureau OF
Labor Registers Complaint
With Chief Executive

The condition of the Filipino labor
ers In Hawaii is receiving some at
tention by the authorities at Manila
on the strength of reports sent back
home by the men of that race who
have been brought TO these islands to
work on the plantations, and now 1t
appears Governor Pinkham Is to I'M
dertake a personal Investigation Of
the situation.
The communication given below,
setting forth the complaints of the
Filipinos In Hawaii, has been sent to
| the governor by Leonardo NJ. de
Jesus, after some investigation con-
Quoted by him at the personal request
/ OF Director Montreal of the bureau Of
labor of the Philippines. In reply the
governor has invited Mr.. de Jesus to
conference at the executive cham
bers, when the entire subject may be
taken up and discussed In detail.
De Jesus, letter to the governor set
ting forth the grievance of the Fill
lpino plantation laborers In this terri
tory is as follows:
Honolulu. Oahu. T. H.. Nov Is, 1914
| Hon. Lheias E. Pinkham,
Governor of Hawaii,
Honolulu, tt H.
SIR 81
Through the earnest desire of my
countrymen of this community; / have
prepared statement of affairs regard-
ing the situation of the Filipinos of.
this territory and the way they are
administered. am signing this letter
with my proper name and signature
and hope that it may not inconvenis
ence you in any circumstance but turn
your most kind help to the Filipino
people Of this territory,
Since we, the Fllipinos, are the most
helpless end sufferers beside being the
most strivers, and having no ether
, mean or way of protection, there
fore call your honorable attention and
powerful influence to the injustice and
misdoings which have been complain.
ed to b1e; and which fact am con-
WINGED Won are aware of.
We, the Ffiipinos, who were brought
i here under the immigration lawtof the
United States and contracted by the
| H s. sP Assn. as plantation laborers
are giving our utmost efforts to sat.
lisfy our employers, as q matter Of fact.
| the managers of various plantations
and other concerns where Fflipinos are
Ihired, and whom have INTERCEPTED
as to how the FilipinOs labor, answer
ed me that, "the Filipinos work sat.
isfactorily, as far as their works are
concerned" These facts developed
under the personal investigation have
undertaken some weeks ago after re-
ceiying a request from the government
| of the Philippine islands and priv
| legged by Mr.. Royal ID. Mead, director
OF the H. s. P. Assn. who lis now In
Manila, p. l., and comforting with the
officials of the Philippine government
The communication received was
from Mr.. Montreal, director OF the bu
reau of labor of the government of
the Philippine islands and requesting
me to Investigate the situation OF the
Filipinos and their labor conditions.
Some of the complaints that most
OF the Filipino laborers given me upon
questioning me, are the Injustice and
ill-treatment of the lunas and planta-
ton policemen who supervise and take
charge of them. This treatment OF the
lunas and plantation policemen above
mentioned, cause the unemployed Fill
pinos Hooked in the city. Because,
most of them told me upon question
ing them why they left plantation, they
are dissatisfied and dislike the super
vision of their saperiors iunas and
plantation policemen.
Most Of the Filipinos immigrated |
here are young men, and as far as they
their physical strength alone, are
concerned are not enough muscularly |
built to do plantation labors. notwith-
standing the farreaching fact that they !
are DESTROYS and were brought here to /
work, they are working as satisfac-
torily as they can until they reach
the condition of treatment which they ]
cannot stand any longer. Then, AFTER