The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-07-01
MAUI CHAMBER
ON RECORD TO
GET LABORERS
Resolution Seeking Raising
Of Restrictions Is Adopted
And Forwarded to Proper
Washington Officials.

Maui Chamber of Commerce went
on record by unanimous vote at a
meeting held last Monday in favor of
importation of labot to MEET the short
supply for field uses in The Islands
and adopted the following resolution:
Resolved that the Maui Chamber
OF Commerce, non political orSani-
cation, having at heart the continued
American control of HawaiIS chief
agricultural industries strongly urges
upon Congress and endorses th1 IasT-
age of joint resolution introduced In
the United States senate under date
of June 20, 1921 permitting the i'm
portation into the Territory of Ha-
wai for limited periods of time suffi-
cient agricultural labor to relieve the
present local shortage; and Resolv-
ed that this resolution be at once
cabled to Walter f. Dillingham;, Wash
ingtOn. ID. c., and to our delegate, j.
X. Kalanianaole and a copy thereof
over the signature of the president
and secretary be mailed to the pres
ident of the senate. the speaker of
the house and the secretary of lab
or"
Proposed Legislation
The resolution pending in congress
is as follows:
Whereas, by reason of the acute
shortage of agricultural labor which
now exists Throughout the territory
of Hawaii the American control of
the agricultural industries of the
territory is seriously imperiled and
whereas in the best interests of the
foJarn1 op1 tar,itorio1 payarnmQnfc
and of the territory of Hawaii gen.
orally it is imperative that the con-
troll of those industries should re-
main American and should not be
allowed to pass into alien lands and
whereas the governor and the legis-
lature of the territory of Hawaii
have petitioned Congress for emerg-
ency relief from the said grave and
acute labor shortage which now ex-
lists and which threatens and inn
perils the said agricultural indus
tries of the territory, now therefore
be it resolved by the senate and the
house of representatives of the
United States of America in Con-
gress assembled that for period of
five years from the passage of this
Joint resolution the secretary of
labor be and he is hereby empowered
under such conditions and regula-
tions as he shall prescribe to admit
to the territory of Hawaii such
aliens otherwise inadmissible as he
may deem necessary to meet the
emergency existing in the shortage
of agricultural labor provided that
such aliens shall be admitted only
for limited periods of time for the
purpose of engaging only in agricul-
tural labor or domestic service, that
such admission of aliens shall not
operate to increase the number of
persons of any one alien nationality
in the territory of Hawaii so that
their total number at any one time
shall exceed 90 per cent of the total
population of the territory as deter
mined by the last census and that
the regulations shall provide for and
secure the return of such laborers to
their respective countries upon the
expiration of the time limited provid-
ed further that nothing herein con-
tanned shall be construed to allow
any alien admitted under the terms
hereof to remove to any other place
under the jurisdiction of the United
States"