The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-08-02
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Question IS Raised BY Message
Sent Out BY Federal Commit
Tee On Public information
HARRINGTON MAY BE i..s
j.. I. PLACED IN CHARGE.
Is Local Representative Of Ma
tlonal Department But Has
Received No information Yet

- lTSStst ttSRi SSOtlldupC VI Nd
tlonal Department But Has
Received No information Vet
Il the labor bureau Of the Hawaiiar
Sugar Planters Association to Be tater
over BY the United stptes government,
or AT least placed under les super
vision. 3" : ~ M y -. 7
The question is raised by despatch
sent out yesterday by the committee On
public Information u the Unitei state.
government, and on the face az 1,
the answer to the question il in liz
Affirmative. In which case Wallace r.
Harrington may assume supervision 81
the ONCE and duties of Royal ID. Mend.
head Of the planters labor bureau.
The press despatch sent out Prom
Washington blythe Committee On ptb-
lie information, which is in reality the
press agency of the United States row
erpment and the information dissem.
mated by which is Official, says.
"Goyerpment distribution of I'M.
organized labor is being organized
with the formation Of state nd,
visory boards. u Each community
wiz contribute q certain quota Of
'unskiiled tworhmen and the gov
erfrihent regulation of distribdtioti
viii prevent injustice being done
one community to help theS indus.
tries of another. ~ Etk3if. 1
Recruiting STATS maintained BY
private corporations are to Be ABB
sorned by the government employ
The only local man connected with
the federal department of labor who
might eoneeiyably be called iuphii to
take over the work in Hawaii q Cow
ernment distribution of unorganized Ia .
Dor is Wallace r. harrington. M Far.
rington holds a. commission. as terri.
torial director under the employment
service OF the department of labor.
AsksIFor Information y = Z. ~ .
However, Mr.. Harrington said last
night that;he really did not know what
his duties were. He was notified some
time ago that he had been Commission.
ed but since that time had received
no Instructions of any kind: The only
work he has done in his Official ear
aeity, he said, has been the orpaniza.
tion ir Hawaii of the Boys Working
Reserve. He said that he had written
to the Governor that he was ready 10
do anything that there was for nm
to do. ~. ,.-.'.. ,"H-T
Mr.. Harrington also wrote TO Mr.
IN stnfl ~. J. !
Dor bureau, he said, asking for ii
formation rs to his duties, but ms yet
has not had time to receive a reply.
Asked If it would not naturally FAN
to him to take over control Of the
work Of the 'planters' labor bureau IN
Case the government extends to Hawaii
the work outlined in the despatch of
the committee ON public in Information,
Mr. Harrington laughed, but said, too,
that he supposed II the labor bureau
We're absorbed, he supposed he might
be called upon, In his official capacity,
to take up the burden. ~ 49,
In view of the fact that the sugar
planters are making efforts to obtain
a supply Of labor for the plantations, 4
which are experiencing a great short
age on account of the draft and the
calling ont Of the national guard, II
lecms not impossible that the new work
by the national labor bureau
might very well be extended to Ha
vail. not with q view Of taking labor.
m from these Islands, but rather With
/ view of sending labor here, where
I is SO badly needed. " 4
1t has been announced from the ma
ional capitol that a large number Of
'oTto Rieans are to be taken from their |
sland homes to the mainland to be |
istributed where there Is. a labor short.
ge. The Hawaiian sugar planters have
or some time had their eye on Porto |
tico as a potential labor source, and !
: may be that this new emptise of !
he government win help solve their !
Iroblem and give them the Porto Ricah |
abor they want, ~ Z. 'Etua !
II Porto Riean labor be not avnii
Ible, and it Is be considered BY the |
Intional government that the output Of |
sugar in Hawaii must not be per |
nittea to drop. the new labor distrib |
ting organization might be asked to |
tep in and supply labor from other
Ields. 'E' ~ ~ 4
II, as is nrobabls, a labor advisory
'oard is to be created in Hawaii as 10 |
The states of the mainland, Official
ldvices to this effect win probably be |
eeeived by Governor Mccarthy within
short time! e.. .-a-...-.tt \
There are only two industries in
Iawaii which might possibly come into
competition for labor-the sugar In. |
ustry and the pineapple industry. That
s., unless one aeeeptS the charge Of
ink McCandless that the sugar people
Gapt to get the laborers used II the
ice fields and are trying to kill the
ies Industry for that purpose, Link
o far as is known, is the only propo.
ept Of this contention.
The creation Of q government labor
'oRrd here would probably tend TO ad-
nst the distribution Of labor between
agar plantations and pineapple folds
md caDGeries.
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