The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-09-27
BACK TELLS
Of FN!EWI.PR!CE! !RAWS
Understanding When He Left
Washington Was Il Affected
New Sugar Crops Only

None of the old crop sugar will get
the new price Is the anHounceme ut
which r. H. PPtrie, one of the com
mittee from the Planters Association
which visited the capital to tell the
food administration of costs OF pro
duction Of Hawaiian sugar and the
price that was necessary to make the
industry profitable and to encourage
production. He says that the under
standing was, when he left Washing
ton, that the new price Of 7.38 for
raw, was not to go into effect on some
day certain but was to affect the new
crops as they came in.
Mr.. Petrie left Washington the day
after the price was announced and
since that time the cable adViceS that
have been received here, in reply to
inquiries, indicate that the new price
will 90 into effect at some date Ger
tain When the first deliveries Of the
new Cuban crop are made.
Sugar men here consider it unlikely
that, irrespective of the time of harv-
vesting and grinding, sugar that ar
rived from Cuba in mid December, new
crop, should receive higher price
waii on the same day and equally that
some bags Of sugar from Hawaii re-
ceived at the refinery points in Janu-
ary should receive higher price than
other bags, arriving on the same steam,
er, the one being old and the other
new crop raws. But then,' as one
shipper Expressed it, "sOme funny
things are being done in these days.
SO it may be that Mr. Petrie has the
correct information. TYP to the time
he left Washington there had been no
time for discussion of such points He
says, however, that n the discussion
of prices the matter Of a date was not
mentioned, the discussion centering en-
tirely on what the new crop would
receive.
Mr.. Petrie was unable to say what
if any results had been secured on the
labor situation. Mr.. Mead had that
subject in hand and will be back with.
In the next few days when he Scan
speak for himself. The labor problem,
in all branches of industry is the big
problem on the mainland just az it is
in the sugar and pineannle industries
in this territory and this affects the
skilled and the unskilled. With hun
drPds Ofs thousands from either class
taken for the army and the navy and
hundreds of thousands more taken for
essential war industries production.
every other industry is cramped for
labor as never before
Mr.. Petrie, with J. w. WaldrOn and
R. D. Mead, went to Washington az
committee of the Planters Associa.
Ia, ;,e nf L.;
being to present Hawaii y case in re.
Pnrd to price for the next crop raws.
The price secured was even better
than had been hoped for at home but,
nS Mr.. Petri" expressed it, emo higher
than reUuired to assure a fair profit
with costs ns high Ns thew are and
monntng higher. Mr.. Waldron was
chairman Of the committee and will
return on the next steamer from Van
ronver. Mr.. Mead will reach home
before him.
Speaking nf general conditions on
the mainland Mr.. Petre said that
WASHINGTON is n ritv with population
r'"re than half az lnrge again as il il
ah'e to nrOperlv house and accommn-
date Great Offices have sprung no
"hRre there worc onlv small ones be
f"re. rpw ONES have been created. and
government business and government
employees have been multiplied many
times
Thou"nnds Of Young men, girls. OH
men and women. gre now employed in
these offices nnd Mr. Petrie wondered
how sOme of them were able to get
alOno on snlnriPs received with living
pOgAs 90 hioh ou1 Still rpaphino hiohar
In New York. he found conditions
little rhN""ed. the citv as bustlinQ and
husv nrd c~""hpd ~ n"er. but women
more in evidence in business life than
pvo- h"fnrn.
It is war and prenoration for win
min" ~" w"r everywhere ou the main,
lPnd ""d H""Olum S"ems Quiet and
"lo"f '""'~ ~" wrr IN rn~narisnn.