The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-09-27

ency labor resolution now pending
in Congress has been prepared by J..
X. Butler, past department com
mandsr of the American Legion, de
partment of Hawaii, who presided at
the second territorial convention held
recently at Hilo, and will be sent i'm
mediately to every state department
of the legion, as we'll as to the ma
tional commander, the national a1-
jutant and the legislative committee.
Attached to his message will be
copies of three documents: First,
the resolution of the local convention
indorsing the emergency labor bill;
second, the resolution calling upon
state departments and the national
department in its Endorsement of the
measure, and, third, a pamphlet re-
viewing the labor legislation now
pending.
Mr.. Buffers message is as follows.
Dear Comrade:
Il am attaching hereto three doc
uments to which | request our par
ticular attention.
THE first is a copy of the resolu-
ton adopted at the second annual
convention of the American Legion,
Department of Hawaii, at Hilo, on
htlNtAlibtt q anu d 1891 Nil1h ltoO-
luton the Hawaiian Emergency Lab
or bill blouse Bill No. 171) now be-
fore Congress.
THE second is a copy of resolution
of the Hilo convention of the Depart
ment of Hawaii, calling upon all state
departments of the national depart
ments of the Legion to back up the
American Legion of Hawaii and to
assist us by indorsing the efforts OF
the territory as represented in the
Emergency Labor bill (H. B. No. 17D
to get a more diversified alien popu-
lation in Hawaii as a necessary step
toward u Am~ericanization plan and
to fit in with the pressing economic
needs of this territory.
"The third document is a pamphlet
reviewing the labor legislation now
pending with some explanation there
of which my enable you to understand
the situation surrounding this legisla-
ton.
"To properly present to Congress
and advocate the passage of the
Emergency Labor legislation dealt
with in these resolutions, a commit
tee was created by the last territorial
Legislature known as the Hawaii En-
Urgency Labor commission, the chair
man of which is Walter f. Dilling-
ham, a legionnaire. This commission
is now in Washington, at the New
Willard hotel, and is busily engaged
in presenting to Congress our case.
Conditions Explained
"E1iefly we are asking Your sup
port in the efforts of the territory of
Hawaii to secure emergency legisla-
ton which will permit the bringing to
Hawaii of otherwise ina1missible
aliens under the following condi.
tons:
First. the President of the United
States must declare an emergency
exists in Hawaii due to labor short
age, and
Second, the secretary of labor fol
lowing such proclamation of emer-
gency is authorized to permit under
such rules and regulations as he Lay
prescribe, the admission of otherwise
inadmissible aliens for a limited time
only and in such numbers as he may
prescribe, with the further proviso
hat such aliens shall be restricted
to engaging only in the class or class
es of labor as to which the eTner
genCy has been found to exist, and
at the expiration of the time pres
cribed they shall be returned 10 their
native land without expense to them
or to the government.
at is also prescribed that aliens so
admitted shall be prevented IRON
moving to any other place within
the jurisdiction of the United States,
and that no alien race, the popula-
ton of which exceeds 20 per cent of
the population of the territory shall
be admitted.
THE purposes of the legislation
sought to be secured are:
First, the relief of the very acute
labor shortage which exists in these
islands and which has been going On
for a number of years, and
Second, the establishment of a
better racial balance here.
"To explain detectives: Hawaii
needs approximately Ii, 900 laborers
to continue its sugar, pineapple,
coffee, rice and other industries.
Every dollar of our prosperity in this
territory comes from the soil and the
prosperity of our agriculture is alb.
solutly necessary to us in order that
we may continue as a successful Am
erican community.
ITO illustrate the conditions in our
principal industry, tnat OF growing
sugar ane and converting it into raw
sugar, is such that we are at present
only about rs per cent of normal in
the progress of our 1920 profit. The
sugar industry as conducted in these
islands involves the continuous opera
ton by the plantations on three SUI
gar crops, One crop is being harvest
ed and converted into raw SUI
gar in the mills, another crop is be-
ing cultivated and cared for so that
it may be ready for harvesting in the
next year, and the third crop is be
ing planted, fortified and irrigated
so that it may produce a crop in the
second year following.
1921 Grinding Delayed
To-day the labor shortage has re-
suited in the grinding of the 1927
crop being only about rs per cent of