The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-05
Brief Sketch of Pablo Manlapits Activities

1. Minimum basic wage from
$1.00 per day to $500 per day.
2. Eight hours to constitute a
days work.
3. Time and half to be paid
for all overtime work; double time
for work on Sundays and holidays.
a. Equal compensation for men
and women engaged in the same
kind of work.
5. A proportionate increase in
the wages paid to skilled and semi
skilled employees.
6. Abolition of all forms of
"bonus" based on the price of sugar
or on the number of days worked
each month.
7. Recognition of the principle
of collective bargaining and the
right of employees to organize for
their mutual benefit and protection.
AS mentioned before, the laborers
received $4,000 a month for twelve
hours work day. The requests men,
toned above were reasonable. But
the Hawaiian sugar planters people
were adamant. Despite the continued
efforts of the leaders and supporters
of the movement, the moguls of the
plantations entirely ignored the ap-
peal. To faint-hearted leader the
situation was discouraging. The ter
ritory of Hawaii controlled by the
big bosses of the sugar company! And
the same big bosses run the govern
ment! There did not seem to be a
way out.
Faced Handicaps.
Notwithstanding these handicaps,
Manlapit, fully conscious of the
Righteousness of his cause and fully
confident of support pressed the fight
on. He made trips to the different
plantations in the interest of the
movement.
On April LIST, 1924, the strike be-
gan-after a persistent struggle of
one whole year, with all the hard
ships and sufferings attendant upon
a situation of the like. By April 10,
the Inayuda baby was evicted from
the hospital in Waipahu, owned by
the Oahu Sugar Company, member of
the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Asso-
citation. The baby belonged to a
couple who supported the strike. The
father was out of work and the baby
was seriously i'll in the hospital. The
fact that it was strikers baby was
enough to bring about eviction of
the infant from the Sugar Planters
Hospital. 1t was quite against the
ethics of the medical profession to
execute an order Of throwing away
dying baby from a hospital, the
affiliations notwithstanding. But as
it turned out later, the doctor ordered
the baby out, turning a deaf ear to
the. pleadings of the parents.
The baby died.
Try to Get ManIapit.
"Ang Bantay" published a brief
item regarding the case. Now the
sugar planters men saw their chance
to "get Manlapit." By hook or by
crook they were going to get him.
Their stool-pigeons had had their
feed. On that account Manlapit was
accused of criminal libel. On April
22nd he was arrested. His arrest was
the elimination of the Iong-dSawp
struggle between the oppressed and
the oppressors, labor and capital in
Hawaii.
When he was sent to prison on
May goth, 1925 the strike collapsed.
The reason was obvious. There was
no leader. The sentence was from
two to ten years of haiN labor. And
he was eligible for parole by January
5, 1927, on condition that he left che
territory of Hawaii for the Philip
pines. This imprisonment of his has
been the live topic of all the news
papers in the territory and even in
some remote parts of the world.
Details of Frame-up.
1t was learned later that those who