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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-29
CHAMBER Of COMMERCE Meeting
PLEDGES ITSELF TO open PORT

ing declared IN favor OF the open
port" and as a matter OF fact were
declaring in favor OF the open shop"
principle also
Concession Offered by Strikers
Jack Edwardson. business agent Of
the Sailors Union, furnished feature
OF the discussion. He asked leave to
speak and when recognized by the
chairman as the organizer and pro-
moter OF the lnngshoremen's union"
he denied being such, but later de-
clared emphatically that he was able
to speak for the union and to repre-
sent il.
Edwardson spoke mainly in favor OF
an increase OF wages for the long.
shoremen, and though reminded by
the chairman that this subject was
not before the meeting, he declared
that It was nevertheless the chief
problem involved. IL. .....
. I'VE admit that we made mistake
in the beginning in not voicing our
demands before the walkout-it wasn't
strike" he said, and later said that
other mistakes might be made bat
that the longshoremen acted largely In
ignorance. +. <=.. :=.. r.
He also declared that when the
chamber talked of preserving law and
order, It should notice attractions Of
the law by others than strikers. He
said that strikebreaker had appeared
on the waterfront carrying revolver.
He also said that strikebreakers, after
getting through nights work, were
not allowed to go home but were forci-
bly, detained either on the dock or on
launch. In -: .-z=
In the course of his talk, Edwardson
said that the union men are entirely
willing to modify their written terms
of demand so that union labor shall be
specified where obtainable."
NJ. f. Prosser cut through a good
deal of miscellaneous discussion by
declaring that the question facing
businessmen of Honolulu was wheth-
er a laboring man is to have the right
to go to work for whom he pleases
and at what wages he pleases. This
brought the discussion to the vote on
the various resolutions and motions.
Previously Breekons had asked Tor
specific cases where violence had oc.
CURED and Joseph E. Sheedy had cited
a number and also pointed to the gen.
eral evidences Of policy of intimida-
tion pursued by strikers and their
sympathiZers. .s....-.
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(Continued IRON page one)
assume they do as well as the firm
mentioned Is doing.
With the cost of living increasing
daily and large dividends being paid,
without any immediate prospect OF a
decrease, our claim that 90 cents an
hour is beggarly sum cannot ex-
aetly be called unreasonable.
The public press 1ias criticised the
manner in which our union declared
the strike, it being said that We sim
ply refused to work, without any at
tempt on our part at adjustment.
While this is not altogether true, yet
1t is quite inmaterial, now the strike
is on. Should our claims be just,
they should be asceded to in all fair
ness, and refusal to do so should not
be based upon the manner employed
by our members to enforce them.
Should they be unjust, they should
not be granted under any circumstan-
ces.
up to the present writing our men
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-29

strikers, but he still has 100 men I'M
der him and they are working today.
Still Await Reply ,H
According to one of the Japanese
stevedores who has joined the
strikers, they are still waiting for
assurance that they will be received
into the union with full rights and
privileges, and in the event of such
assurance not being given they may
resume work at any moment.
Call on Maxine
This morning those who quit work
sent three representatives to Fred
Maxine and asked that they be given
assistance, as they had simply quit
their work to help the members OF
the union win their demands and IN
sympathy. According to the state
ments of these men there are more
than $50 Of them who quit In order
to get into the union and they want
a definite guarantee that they viii
be so received. Maxine told them he
would arrange some plan with Ed.
wardson and would himself guarantee
that they will be accepted as mem-
bers. The stevedores' union will meet
tonight and will then definitely reply
to the Japanese.
All the editors of the local japanese
papers declare in favor of investiga.
ton, as was suggested at the meet
ing held in the Chamber of Commerce
rooms yesterday.
Nippu Jill Opposes Strike
The Nippu Jill says editorialiy:
"The strike now going on among
the members of the local stevedores
union against their employers is fun.
damentally mistake They quit
work without negotiation with their
employers in regard to their claims
and without q declaration that they
were going to quit unless their claims
were accepted. No employers in the
world can stand for such action from
their trusted employees and the men
should not have any sympathy from
the outside.
"The strike now going on on the
waterfront is only among HaWaiians
and Filipinos, who were agitated by
two strike organizers from the main
land. The Hawaiians and Filipinos
cannot be compared with the ideal
workers OF our race. The Japanese
workingmen were trusted and well
treated for their ability, which is
far superior to that of the Hawaiians
and Filipinos. The relationship be.
tween local shipping concerns and
Japanese workers in this city are e&
ceedingly good Both sides were quite
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-29
DAILY REMINDERS
Expert manicurist. Union barber shop.

Expert manicurist. Union barber shop.
ADV.
Round the island IN auto, $500.
Lewis Stables. Phone 2141.--Adv.
Make some of today's want ads
serve YOU-by answering a few Of
them.
For Distilled Water. Hires Root
Beer and all other Popular Drinks
try the Con. Soda Water Works Co.
ADV
Almost every one of your don't
wants" Is sure to be somebody's
want" So phone your don't wants
to the Star-Bulletin and get rid or
them.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-29
SIX GUARDSMEN
MAY APPLY FOR
FLYING SCHOOL,
Discussion of Subject Last
Night in Signal Corps
Makes Action Likely
WILL BE FIRST TO -. H.. I.
H.. ACCEPT ARMY OFFER
Gen. Johnson Has Charge of
Applications as Soon
as Filed

Hawaiis national guardsmenr will
take advantage Of the opportunity to
enroll in the aviation school at San
Diego, announced by Gen. r. K. Evans,
commanding the Hawaii department,
through the Star Bulletin last Wednes.
day. .. -... =.
II was stated today at guard head.
quarters that as a result of meet
ing OF non-commissioned officers OF
the signal company last night, it is
probable that six men will apply in
the near future as candidates for adj
mission TO the school. This is the
first step OF acceptance from the local
guard of the opportunity of learning
aviation offered by the war depart
mert
Applications win be made to the
war department through Brig. Gen.
Samuel /. Johnson, the adjutant-gen-
eral, N. G. H., as outlined in re-
port by Gen. Evans.
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tconnnued rom page one,


Relative 70 the Chamber OF Com.
mefces move to arbitrate the strike
Edwardson said that the union was
ready ~ days ago 20 submit the ques.
lions a. stake TO arbitration, but that
the employers had then said there was
nothing TO arbitrate." He added that
there seems 70 be plenty to arbitrate
about now.
Explains clcsed-Shop Letter
That in the letter sent to employers
by the union when the strike began
there should have been added to the
clause providing that union men be
employed on all work the words when
available" was stated by Edwardson.
who said their omission was an over
sight
I'VE have no objection IL employers
hire competent men not members of
the union" he said, "but we know
that ell the competent stevedores arc
IA the union, and we also ask that
when employers hire non-union men
they pay them the same wage scale
we are now demanding, 40 cents an
hour and S. cents overtime"
Men Fed on Ships
Ladiing huge hunks Of beef stew
from big galvanized iron wash tub,
I25 strike-breaking Filiplnos made
the deck OF the barge Bennington at
noon today at Pier IL resemble q
prison-camp rush somewhere In Aus
tria.s
The men, who are loading the Mat
son steamer Hyades at this pier, were
fed on board the barge They were
given tin plates, tin cups, big and lit
tie spoons and rice, beef stew, big
hunks OF bread and coffee were dish.
ed out to them In huge quantities. The
way the little brown men got away
with the leafs" was q marvel to be-
hold, and the noise they made while
dikhing out the stew could be heard
about quarter OF mile away until
food stopped the tumult
Five canos Working
Only three gangs Of strike-breakers
went to- work on the Hyades this
morning, but by noon there we're FIVE
gangs at work, according to officers
Of the Hyades, the additional men be-
ing mostly Japanese. Waterfront men
think the Hyades will be ready to
leave by p. m. Saturday.
Several incidents showing how east.
~ the strikebreaking Filipinos and
Asiatics are being intimidated and
kept from working. occurred last night
and today.
strike Breakers In Autos
At 10 o'clock this morning four auto
mobile loads of strike-breakers, evil
IDENTIFY Chinese, were driven up to Pier
70. The first auto discharged its load
OF Chinese. There was no one at the
pier to meet them. and the men hud-
died together waiting for orders,
a union man Approached them. ask
ihg what the iInep wanted.
I'VE come hanahana, sure, we IKE.
"Ithey answered.
mo hauahana here, you get away
wikfwild. said the picket You go
dam quick, too The Chinese fed
away and the drivers OF three autos
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-29
Businessmen After Brief Dis
cussion Take Action and
Call on Arbitration Commit
tee to Investigate

A brief and vigorous discussion at
the public and special meeting called
by the chamber Of commerce yester.
day afternoon resulted in the passage
of the following resolution by a vote
OF more than 20 to some three or four:
Resolved. That the Chamber of
Commerce Of Honolulu declares il to
be its fixed and permanent policy to
support the free right Of every employ
er and every individual to enter into
such contracts of employment as they
may desire without interference or die
tation by outside parties or oreaniza-
tions; to insist that Honolulu be main
tanned as an open port. and to further
the right Of every resident to pursue
any lawful employment or occupation
he may desire, without moIestation,
harm or intimidation by others; TO in
sIst upon the maintenance Of law and
order by the public authorities, and to
give every possible assistance to them
in their endeavors to do so; and, be
il further . ~. i.
RESOLVED, That the president
and other proper officers of this cham
bST VIC dttu SHSt dIc ncgSpy dutHOEiZco
to appoint such additional committees
and to do all such acts as In their
judgment are or become necessary to
effectively carry out the policy above
declared" -. - ~. e.
Robert W. Breckons, who at several
times during the meeting protested
that the resolution was directed
against organized labor and should
not be passed, introduced a resolution
calling for the appointment of spe
cial arbitration committee, but instead
the meeting adopted the following mo
tion by A: Lewis, Jr.::
Il move that the present status ex-
isting between employees and employ.
ers of labor on the waterfront be re-
ferred to the committee on arbitration
of this chamber for investigation"
As told in yesterdays Star-Bulletin,
the meeting was the result of re.
quest to the president of the chamber,
George w. Smith, from the maritime
affairs committee. In effect, the bGsi-
nessman as represented at the meet
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satisfied and there is no complaint
between them whatever. ~ III
"A certain Japanese in this city
thinks that the only true friend of
the laborer is the man who can
arouse peaceful workers against their
employers for still higher wages and
shorter working hours. He must rec
ognize that he is wrong. We know
the strike is not a violation OF the
law, but thGEJnan who tagitates is
public enemy All laborers have
their freedom to decide whether they
will Join the strike -breakers or the
strikers. The Japanese stevedores tie
clared before, the. strike that they
would be strictly neutral. Then why
the necessity of agitating these peace.
full workers to join the strikers, oil
whom q majority. are Hawaiians and
Filipinos This we recommend to
the Japanese. stevedores for their
careful consideration" ,-s. T.. RI
Shipping Men Give Opinions
That il the striking stevedores had
come to the heads OF the shipping
firms here and told them their griey-
ances before striking they would have
been given q fair deal and that arbi.
tration IS all right If both sides enter
into it with the proper spirit of give
and take is the concensus of opinion
today among the shipping men.
g. H. Robertson Of C. Brewer & Co.,
said today that he did not believe the
strikers had acted fairly. when the
Sierra was running between here and
San Francisco as local boat we had
a special gang of stevedores who al
ways discharged and loaded the Gee
anic boats" he said, 'and even now
many still work for U.S.. They have
been with us for many years and II
they had come to us and asked for
more pay we would have done our
best to give it. They did not and,
therefore, the same consideration is
not due Them" s .".... e
James Kennedy, president of the
Inter-Island, said that if he was. run.
ming the strike he would have the
men return to work and settle the
question of wages. afterwards. Eve
will give them fair deal if they deal
fairly with u.s. he said. =
Union Recognition Opposed
Fred Waldron ifs of the opinion
that the unions should not be recog.
nized. The committee of the Cham
Der of Commerce investigating the
matter win probably give a report on
their findings and the firms from
that can decide what is best to do.
G. p. Morse, agent at H. Hackfeld
Geo. for the Americana Hawaiian, be-
lieves that arbitration is undoubted
ly the best course to take If both
sides meet the question fairly. .+.
Work on the T. K. X. steamer Seiyo
Maru at Pier 16 went better today
There were 13 deckhands of the
steamer and about so strike-breakers
at work. Officers of the steamer said
at noon they will have the Honolulu
cargo, 500 tons of nitrate, discharged
by noon tomorrow, after which freight
from this port for japan, including
scrap iron and taro, will be loaded.
II was said at the pier today that more
strike-breakers applied than could be
used and 10 or II were turned away.
Both the British steamer Brinkburn,
at Pier 6, from Balboa, and the T. K.
K. liner Shinyo Maru, at Pier Z, from
San Francisco, used their crews tG.
trim bunker coal. The. Brinkbur1l
f0ok 950 tone ond tho, Ghinva Inn
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are standing firmly by what they be.
Heve to be right, and we hope that
public sentiment, always a potent fac.
tor in the settlement of labor diff.
culties. will compel our employers TO
acquiesee."
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-29

A German submarine captured the
Dutch motor steamed Zeelandie in the
North Sea.
New York is to have a new hotel
to cost $l5,000,oO0
Sheep dogs are free from tax in the
United Kingdom.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-29
MAYOR RECEIVES LETTER
Il Ii. GIVING UNION POINTS

CONTINUED IRON page one)
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-06-16
Humus the Great Need, Says
Mr.. league

We get the Progressive Farmer
each week says J.. A. league of
Bartlett, Tenn, and it is a source
of valuable information and help
to us.
| have had quite a good oppor-
tunity to experiment with both
poor land and bottom land, and
have come to the conclusion that
the greatest of all needs for our
land is humus or more decayed
vegetation in the soil. Recently
| was talking to a friend of mine,
a large land owner and a progress,
sive farmer in every respect. He
has used dynamite, subscribers and
heavy breaking plows and he has
decided like myself that deep
breaking is useless unless the
humus is supplied to keep the land
porous.
Some of our fields where heavy
dynamite was used to blow stumps
did not stand the drouth any bet
ter than the other land. How
ever, wher ever there was a fairly
good supply of humus you could
notice the difference.
So I am going after this one
point, more than anything else,
by turning under green crops
when l can afford to, and SOW all
l possibly can in way of cover
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-06-16
Rural Credit Machinery

The Rural Credit bill that
passed the Senate early in May,
and seems fairly likely to pass
the House, proposes entirely new
and elaborate machinery for
handling farm loans. There is to
be a board at Washington, like
the Federal Reserve Board; there
are to be twelve regional land
banks, like the regional Federal
Reserve Banks; then there is to
be a set Of entirely new local in.
stitutions all over the country
that are to do the actual business
of making loans on farms, says
the Saturday Evening Post.
The law authorizes national
banks-and state banks, also, in
nearly every state-tO make loans
on farms. 1t is to his local bank,
with which he has established
credit relations, that a farmer
would most naturally 60 for a
loan on his farm.
The Federal Reserve banks
might be authorized to receive,
from member banks in their re-
spective regions, farm loans that
the latter had made, and to issue
and sell debentures based on such
loans. In short, the existing
banking machinery might be util-
lied for selling debentures based
on farm mortgages, instead of set
ting up a new, elaborate set of in
situations for that purpose.
True, the business of making
longtime farm loans is distinct
from commercial banking, but it
could as easily be kept distinct
under the same roof as under an.
other roof across the street-just,
for example, as the function of
issuing bank notes is kept entirely
distinct from other banking func-
tiOns in the Bank of England.
The rural credit scheme EN-,
bodied in the bill that passed the
Senate is admittedly expert.
mental. Trying the experiment
with a minimum of expense and a
maximum probability of success
would seem to be desirable; and
that could be accomplished, we
believe, by using established in,
situations.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-06-16
Like a Wolf in a Cage

Some of the keenest financial
minds in this country see the
end of the great war nearing,
They think that Germany is rap
idly eXhausting herself, and that
she has so far failed to acom-
plish her mission announced
when the war began. Her posi-
ton at the present is thus graph
ically described by Bache q
Co.'s weekly review, the best
review that comes from New
York:
Wall street is convinced
that such powerful drives and
lunges as she has made have
been Intellectual to break
the chain; that she is like a
great and powerful wolf in
an iron cage, which dashes
first to one side and then to
the other, causing much
damage, bending but not
breaking the bars, and after
each desperate assault it is
found that the iron is still
relentlessIy surrounding her.
Peace may be a great way off.
No one knows anything about
this. But we hear so much
about unrest among the German
people over the food supply,
about a dictator being put in
charge of the food distribution,
about the army rations being re-
duced and only a small quantity
of meat being given the soldiers,
that something Of truth must be
attached to the reports that out
Of this unrest will come the end
ing of the war.
Bache & Co. direct attention
to another phase Of the German
situation which will make for
peace. 1t is this: The bust
ness interests in Germany are
thought to look with no friendly
feelings upon a great commerce
ruined, and for which there can
be realized no compensation"
Hunger and loss of trade, with
the fear Of ultimate bankruptcy
staring them in the face, is bound
" have a SOLDERING effect on the
ierman people Wuo are financing
he war and who are fighting
iermany's battles. - Mobile
Register.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-06-16

No matter how little to do and see
There is in your town-on your
street;
No matter how lively the place may be;
No matter how dirty-or neat;
If you think it's nothing at all to you
Whether anything happens or not,
So long as the business you manage to
do
Pays you to stay on the spot;
If you have no feelings of sorrow or
pride
For the looks of the town, or its
name,
If you're just that selfish you're salts
fled
With playing your own little game;
Why, then, here's what | think of you,
And I'd say the same to your face;
| don't care a darn how much business
you do,
l call you a town disgrace!
Why don't you take off your coat and
join
With the rest of the population?
This isn't a day of each one for the
coin.
It's a day of cooperation!
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-06-16
FOr CaIp-At a bargain. extra fine Jersey
v o"'S COW, fresh, E. T. GEORGE.

Good cook stove for sale. See w.
M. Jones, Sr.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-06-16
The Social Label

IN the eager effort to be on the
best social level we run after all
the new fashions of dress, says
an exchange. No color is so
glazing. no cut 50 audacious, no
fancy 50 whimsical. that thou
sands will not be found to adopt
it and eXaggerate it, in the hope
Of being thought to belong to
the best social set, to move ca silly
and naturally among those at
the top. No one can estimate
the money that is spent, the
homes that are ruined, the
hearts that are broken, in the
effort to tag ourselves with the
sociable label that dress is sup
posed to give. And, after all,
in many cases the dashing out.
side only makes a more violent
contrast with the emptiness and
yulgarlty that are within.
If women did but know it,
there is one social label that is a
far surer guide than dress and
tn It costs nothing, the label of
speech, Alady may or may not
be known by her apparel. Her
speech cannot be mistaken. A
quiet, refined voice, delicate,
sensitive infections and intona-
tons. instantly and irrevocably
mark the class to when the
speaker belongs. By a consider.
able outlay of money, by sedul-
Gus consultation of fashion
books and dressmakers and
tallors, you may produce a fairly
creditable imitation of a lady un-
til it speaks. Then, if it is only
an imitation, some harsh tone
flies out, some crude phrase or
eXpletive, and all your costly
tailored fabric diSsolves like an
eXhalation, leaving bare Just the
common soul beneath. Why not
take half the pains with your
speech that you take with Your
; clothes?
But, you object, clothes nav
be bought if you have a long
enough purse or a good-enough
credit. Speech is admired, not
acquired. In the first place the
clothes are of no use without the
: speech. Then, the speech can
be acquired. To be sure, fine,
/. delicate intonatiors are a matter
of old breeding and long inherit
ance. But with patience and
attention everyone can learn to
speak gently and quietly and to
avoid coarse, rough, offhand ex-
preSSlonS and phrases. Those
, things are not to be bought of
r tailors, but they help social posi-
, ton far more than anything that
tailors sell.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-06-16
UncdHed for Letters.

List of letters remaining in the post
office at Macon, Mississippi, for the
week ending June 14th, 1916:
Mrs. Susie Allen Ellis Bennett
Mile Douglas Mary Houston
Hettie johnson STEELE Jane Ledwell
Emma Lockatt Mary McClung
Cora Mccoy Versie Poplar
Jim Randolph Bessie Richardson
Major Rogers Lille Belle Patton
Mary Spann Allie Thompson
Sarah Walker Mary Williams
Mabel Williams ] B Dantzler
Henry Waldron.
When calling for above letters, please
say advertised and present one cent at
the general delivery window.
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