The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-02-19
THREATENS
AM0NGEISHERMEN
over new PRICES
Near Riot Occurs At Market
When Food Administrator
500 = Chaiks Up Prices
JAPANESE REFUSE To- q. -.
SELL THEIR CAT CHES
Companies Demand Return To
piscredited Auction Methods;
Situation Is Critical I

.aE. ~ 49, - I~'te~s~rt ~ EFfta
-. i : - - Xxx =. ,,,.S..
With Japanese hshermens trembling
in the verge Of a general strike.
stall men in the fish market declarinR
that thew win mot aell fab M the prieeA
fSed ~ Food Administratoy ChiId. and.
fishing eotnpanies demanding a return
To, tbe former methods of eominetine
the, Ash business. the Ash situation
takes On critical ASPECT today.
Only by the narrowest margin was
the order for a general strike Of fsh.
ermen avoided ne n turbulent meeting
81 the asbermen late Yesterday after.
noon n the .Ji1en Kai Club, and the
n0mber of fishermen who will leave
port today Is problematieal. go
\ Food Commissioner Child will be.
waited upon this morning by com
mttee OF seven men chosen by the
fishermen g society who viii ask that
the methods adopted by the govern
ment to reduce the prices or nsh De
amended 20 as 10 allow them 70 oPerate
ut q proht' go, = ~ rs
The conservative element OF TN. So
clety said last mgh6 mat stnke 1taet
tics VIII De resorted 70 oniy ~ an
extremity, ahhough several captains on
japanese sampans sara yesterday aitert
noon that they Win stay IN port Tor
asweek IL need be rather than 60 out
and incur expense with no assurance
atthey VIII not lose money py tdoihB
so.f @a15 "a. t..-
,;AsneW feature or the sltuauon which'
deyeloped yesterday AFTERNOON was she
action Of the Hawaiian Electric So,i
IN demanding from. the nsmng com
panies! the Keys to cold storage room
IN their plant and mstitutlng atsystem'
OF strict accounting Tor every pound
Of hsh placed IN the storage, rooms.
This was done pursuant TO tne new
rsqmrements OF the 1000 admlnislra;
ton faihng TOT monthly statement al
OF all nsh Kept In cold storage eAN
Wild Scene A. Market fEa '55!ggg53.
Wild scenes Mt the fish market yeag
terday when the food administrators
put into, effect it's scheme of adoptine
the November scale of fish prices,
caused a hasty revision of the prices
originally, posted and in, the end II be-
came necessary for the food admins,
traitor to use his federal power in or
der to get the supply of fish ON sale, NJ
all. The excitement that attended
these demonstrations approached the
proportions of a riot at times, during
which Mr.. Child hurried from one parf
! of. the fish 'marketIto the other ;ad
dressing mushroom insurrecti tons Of fish
men, ~ t@..4
In the thick of the fray, Mr.. Child
was. perched upon a table at the low,
az enc OF tne nsh market WIN EDep
Low, ms assistant IN inc roou adm n n
}stratlon, on one slde OF nun ana u
Japa9nese interpreter ON Ine otner:
rms ID All olg LnlStake' ne snout.
ep; an h1re 10 he'P yvuTh u' "
rUo you. We nav goI 70 SAY so ie,
wnere ana inns Is going 70 DC the ssAr.
Nouay iou ooys uoh L.. Hno r, nov
m,uon nioney you ha,o uoe" h M nv, -
tne past .three months anI 1 90. W I
YOU were Se,ilng your nSn oy tne pas ~,
het you oldh KNOW now mucn yoo
were geteiHe per PounH me pres snI'
pIiees nay DC wrong II tney Te' 1neh
We VIII nhu .hht OUT IN WEEK OF %
ana Iectiy tnem pu' you "vys NV
got 10 Dc patient anu heip' We haSe
goT 70, Start somewhere new s
ineie was now l,or, tno nsh mon
ms Iu1o'I I anu MI Cniiu 70
I"'ui,, "o ""'0 ~" "" ''e'V D"'i'o'
"Gere. - II
when something IKE ordess was re
StoIeI, Mr. rhlin 'uLneu TO Eoeh Lo"
"hnseoNe the TOW, snouteu: IN
~ nerepy idePutne you 70 seu "naI
hsn mere are III TINS market at the
stipulated ?riees'
Bedlam Breaks Loose
,Then bedlam bfoke loose which Mr.
Child managed to quiet by an appeal
10 the loyalty of the fishermen and
stall men. He told them that If there
@ere any who did not want to sci!
their. fish at the prices he had stipulat.
ed they could take. them away, and
that if any Of them objected to his
methods they might sue the United
States government. a..
MI. Low madk an efro+t to dispose
of the fish at the prices that had been
posted but the stall men were stub
horn, Then hurried conference was
eanel az tne olnses OF the 1000 ad
.s az which LsSuueI IN reVisss
ioH "a Tue Pt'Ses HHl ehahgS sn ine
rsaane oL tne pIack s .ngures
when eyen'uanS p'a a., inc nsn t sI
taie IN me Stars. Ihe entire supply