The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-09-13
DRAFT THREATENS =.
';TO CURTAL FOOD
y 0yTPgTgF HAWAII
Provost Marshal General Grow
der ToBe Asked Whether Gov
eminent Wants Sugar Or Men
CAN'T HAVE BOTH IS
q VIEW OF CONFERENCE
Plantations Already Seriously
Crippled BY Shortage of Labor
Caused BY Previous Calls

food output OF the islands must nrrrs
Sarilv be cut down. For this reason
the selrctIvC draft service hero will put
the proposition sQuarplv up TO the
provost marshal general at Washington
to ascertain whether the federal gov
eminent wants food or soldiers from
the Territory. Both can not be Iiven.
II must he either one or the other.
This was one of the most important
developments Of the conference ycster
day Of the men who are handling thh
draft work ON all the Islands, the
statement being made that if more Of
th" unskilIcd Iahorrrs are called into
service, the food production industries
will be materially affected, and only
by n substitute class of labor imported
into the Islands can the island indus
tries and food production in that r> emf
be maintained
There is an apparent conflict between
the desires Of the government one de
partment asking that men he supplied
for army service and the other that
food production be kept up in un-
diminished quantities.
Hawaii, which has already given
nearly 5000 men for army and navy
service, of whom between 1900 and
5000 were drawn from the plantations.
has been crippled already in the avail
able labor for sugar. pineapple and
rice plantations. and according to state
ments made by the chnirmen Of each
of the local draft boards of Oahu, Ha.
waii, Maui and Kauai the future food
production possibilities are endangered.
1t is anticipated, according to state
ments made by Capt. II. Cooling Field,
selective draft officer. and c. H. Cooke.
chairman of local draft board No. |
of Honolulu, that between $4,000 and
$4,000 men will he registered under
the "Man Power Act,' of men be
tween eight and twenty one and thirty
two and forty five years of age. If
these are heavily drawn upon AOr add
the Islands will be seriously menaced
representatives. of Maui, Hawaii and
Kauai particularly.
Will Appeal To Crowder
Under the draft regulations, unskill-
ed labor can not be placed in deferred
classiiiCatlOnS. This was presented to
the meeting yesterday afternoon as
the basis for discussion. After much
discussion. it was decided to send q
cahlegram to General CrOwder asking
whether the ruling in view Of the
drains upon labor already, could not
be modified for Hawaii to permit n ri
cultural laborprs to remain at their
occupations.
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o,,rn,. If l,,.oI ho,rd No . Homo
Iulu. w H. smith, chairman local
board No. l East Hawaii; Thomas G.
White, chairman local board. West lIa
waii; w. +. kaar chairman of the Maui
bOurd; w II. Rice, chairman OF the
Kauai board: Maj. {. B. Cooper, medl
cal adv isor; Doctors \. ]. Jackson and
Kilbourne, Of the medical advisory
board; Edgar llenrlQues, secretary OF
the medical board; W. w. Thayer, OF
the legal advisory board; George curry
government appeal agent for lOcaI board
No. ], Honolalu; Mr.. Roiph, govern
mPnt appeal agent for the HilO boarn
Charles Hemenway, secretary of the
district draft board: John Guild, J"hr
Drew, members of local board No. l.
Miss A. Gross, secretary or l"caI oou'C
No. |; Miss l.. Tahaney, secretary OF
local board No. ?; Riley Allen, editor
of the star Bulletin, k. o. Mathcs"n
editor of The Advertiser; :. +. Huber
United States district attorney
The morning session Was dtNo''d u
nm exchange Of opinions. Target y, on the
methods each board employs IN ri"SSl
fving married registrnntS, and the haNl'
vt action in classifying IN Class l.
and 4.
Grounds for Exemption
Tbere were sharp differences of opin
N.Y. .;,oo, 30 r. what Number o,
'p T:,1ro, r. FAMILY should constitut,
1a 60. tho complete exemptior
" NO father. The question Of whethe
VI '"o a;aD, oonocity of the wife. as ;
W. ~ in clerical employment
.nnnIJ or should not make difference