The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1920-02-27
The Voice of AmeriCanism

vertisements in the japanese newspapers where Japanese who
have continued to work at Waipahu are advertised and held up
to the scorn of the Japanese community here and at home.
The evidence of the Federation's hold upon the laborers ac-
cumulates from day to day.
AT Waialua in the week preceding the 10Th of January.
fields, in the Waialua and Mokuleia sections of the plantations
were burned preparatory to cutting. On the following day the
Japanese promised that they would harvest these fields and did
harvest the fields in the Waialua section. Late Monday after
noon one OF the Federation agitators, reported to have been Mr..
Fujitani, went to Waaua and ordered the Japanese not to turn
out on Tuesday to harvest the field at Mokuleia.
On Tuesday the japanese did not turn out to harvest said
field.
And yet we read in the Japanese newspapers how the Japan
csc laborers at Waalua kept their promise.
Again st Waia1ua we hear of the skilled men earning large
salaries and not interested at all in this strike, working only
with the permission OF the Federation of Labor.
One of the fundamentals of all modern governments is that
an accused person may not be tried or convicted until he has
been faced by his accuser. At Kahuku we fnd an alien race,
setting up its own tribunal to deal with its own people. The
Japanese Federation of Labor provided a receptacle wherein any
one could place the name of any Japanese who might be seen
speaking to a white employee of the plantation. This is COM
parable only with the Lions Mouth in the Doge's Palace and
to the procedure of the Spanish Inquisition.
And yet the "Nippu Jiji' states that the attitude of the plan
tations is that Of the "despot of the dark ages"
TIE statements of the Federation are full of misrepresenta-
ton and deceit. In the Voice of Labor it is stated, for in
staace, that the Hawaiian Agricultural Company charges $500
a cord for hrcwood delivered to laborers. The ruth is that five
men were charged the nominal sum OF $500 per cord for fuel
for the reason that their wives do the laundry work for the dis
trict. One poi manufactures and one 'tofu' manufacturer were
charged for hrewood, The Voice of Labor fails to mention,
however, that the Hawaiian Agricultural Company is now, and
for a long time past, has been supplying its laborers with beef
for only l2H9 per pound and milk at only sc per quart. The
price of beef in Honolulu ranges from 20 cents to 40 cents per
pound, and milk from 10 cents to 20 cents per quart.
Such statements by the Federation of Labor only serve to
furnish ammunition to those in this community who aver that
the Japanese are not apprecative and have no sense of gratitude.
For a whole month the plantations on this Island have re-
Trained from taking any action toward requesting the bulk of
their laborers either to work or give up their living quarters.
While occupying the plantation houses free of charge, receiving
plantation fuel, having water pumped to their houses and receiv-
ing plantation medical treatment, these laborers, on order of the
Federation, have refrained from working, and to further aggrav-
ate the situation, patroled the camps of other laborers and pre-
vented chose of other nationaities who desire to work from so
doing.
AS to the movement being an ant-American one, we firmly
believe that it is so from the manner of its inception, from the
personnel OF those behind it, from the statements in the Japanese
press and from the speeches of those officials of the Federation
of Labor whom we have been able to check.
The Waialua Japanese Labor Union ~emblazons its letter
paper with the flag it loves and will folow-not the Stars and
Stripes, but the Rising Sun of Japan-crossed with the cane
knife ard the hoe.
All of which we submit shows the strangle hold of the Fede-
ration on The laborers, which we propose to break, no matter
what the cost.
We are sorry that the good men must suffer with the bad,
but there can be no compromise or deviation from the lines that
we have laid down.
Very truly yours,