The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-05-05

"This extension Gt the bonus system
to be along the following lines:
Monthly Payment Of Bonus
1.-THE percentage of the bonus to be
increased fifty per cent. The bonus sys-
TEN to be extended so that all lahore rs
on the plantations-contrac of all
kinds, as we'll as day men-shall par
ticipate therein. Also that substan.
tial proportion of the bonus be paid
monthly and the balance, If any, paid
II the end of the bonus year.
"AnOther important change - that
he provision that the bonus shall be
oaid only to those who remain a whole
year upon the plantation and average
24O days work for the year will be done
away with. Any laborer who is work
ing on the plantation at the end of the
bonus year shall receive his bonus for
each and every month Of the previous
year during which he has worked TWEEN.
ty days.
"Tbe condition requiring twenty
days labor per month to entitle any
laborer to bonus Is retained with the
same provision that il he is sick or
disabled or excused by the manager, he
shall be entitled to the proportion of
bonus for the days he has worked.
A Necessary Proviso
alt is deemed necessary to retain
this feature of the bonus system in or,
der to discourage loafng and encourage
efficiency. Under this provision a man
is required to work only seventy five
per cent of his time; and if it were
not retained many men would work less
days than they do at present.
Bonus Percentage Increased
"The changes and notifications are
as follows:
"The present rate of bonus is to be
increased fifty per cent and will be
calculated on the following scale: II
the New York price for sugar averages
seventy one dollars per ton the bonus
will be one and One-half per cent of
the earnings or wages as the case may
be and for every dollar increase over
seventy-one dollars the bonus will be
increased one and one-half per cent; sc
that with sugar averaging eighty dol
lars per ton the bonus will be ffteeI
per cent instead of ten per cent as al
present; ninety dollars per ton, thirty
per cent; 800 per ton, forty.five pei
cent; $40 per ton, sixty per cent, and
so on in like proportion.
Laborers Entitled To Bonus
"Day wage Iaborers receiving TWEEN
ty-four dollars per month and under
and all short term contractors, such a,
cutters, leaders, etc, who work mt less
than twenty days per month will be en-
titled TO a bonus based on their earn
ings. To such men twenty per cent ut
their monthly earnings viii be paiC
monthly on account Of the annual bOnul
due October 81, and the balance Of tht
bonus will he paid at the end of the
bonus period.
"FOr example: A laboTer (whethel
day man or short term contraetor) wh(
has performed twenty days, work dur
ing a given month and who has earned
say twenty dollars will be paid an ad
vance Of twenty per cent on Account
of his annual bonus, or four. dollars, 81
that he will receive for the month
twenty four dollars. Should the aver
age price of sugar call for O forty pei
cent bonus he would be paid on Octobel
81, an additional twenty per cent.
Cultivation Contractors
I'm regard to cultivation contractors
it being impossible to determine wha'
their earnings will be until their con
tracts are completed, they will be pai(
bonus on the basis of wages at thu
rate of twenty. four dollars per month
provided they work not less than TWEEN
ty days per month"; and likewise I
| twenty per cent advance of these as
sumed earnings will be paid monthly
and the balance at the end of the bonu
year.
"FOr example: Assuming a cultiva
ton contractor works twenty-six day
"a month; he will receive monthly TWEEN