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Kauai Labor Dispute Bellflower' May Company Forced To Ad Reveals Bias Kekaha Needs "Superman”; Be Key To Tale Uaio" Against Unions, Longshoreman's Case National Groups Of Walter Berry If Richard Maluo, 57, longshore­ Demands 10 Do Work of 20 man, of -1471 Pele St., was not a By STAFF WRITER Of course, the management’s Who and where is Foy Bell- union man, he’d be facing life By JOHNSON CAIN . flower, age 34, onetime seaman, “Unemployed? You have no ex­ “Kekaha is out; that’s definite!” “efficiency experts” haven’t fig­ today with little prospect except cuse now unless you’re lazy!' Good, ured out yet just who they can height >5 ft. 10 inches, weight; that of. paying debts and earning That was the announcement fol­ 185 lbs.? pay for good men for permanent lowing a secret ballot among 85.5 get, short of Superman, to han- a living with a body which may work, 8 hours a day, 5 days a per cent of Kekaha plantation’s (more on page 7)- The name of Bellflower, hereto­ be permanently-disabled. week.” ■ more than 700 employes involved fore unpublicized in the many Because his: union, ILWU Lo­ That’s the lure put out by En­ in the so-called "wildcat” walk­ revelations of Walter Benry, un­ cal 136, pressed an action for,com­ cyclopedia Britannica, Inc., -last out. The announcement was made Is This Why Matson derworld figure serving b term in pensation which had been'denied week in a classified advertisement. following- a- majority “no ac­ Oahu- Prison, is one which may him by Castle & Cooke’s insurance but there are a number? of quali­ ceptance” vote by members of the Dropped Airline Plan? have much pertinence in the Berry: company, his hospital and medical fications. One is that you have bargaining unit Tuesday, July 18, case. It is the name thaf was in bills will all be paid and he will to be either haole or“J apanese" in answer to a “return to work on the seaman’s black' : book, Berry receive $35 a week indefinitely— Another is “non-union.”- ; From inside Matson comes complained hSd been taken from until the Workmen’s Compensa-_ ■ our terms or no arbitration” edict the- story of why the shipping Of -course, theEncyclopedia . handed_down by. assistant manager him, the RECORD has :. learned. tion Board has ruled otherwise, or ; Britannica doesn’t' put 'ita name a- company, after investing thou- Furthermore, it is the name of an until he has received, $7,500. , Ri. C. Williamson for Kekajia man­ 5 sands of dollars in a prospective agement. — - factual. person—not Berry—t h e Victory came tor Maluo last airline, abandoned the venture. RECORD has also learned. But w__ee_k_ _a_f_t_er W.... _M_._ _D_o_u_g_l_a_s_ of the Kekaha’s ■ workers “walked out” After it had gone to much ex­ the above statistics, known to be ' > Workmen’s Compensation Board Friday, July 14, following the ac- pense on the Mainland to ar- accurate fan .Bellflower, do not ap- . tion „of. 10 cane-hauling, truck \ < rapge. Jts_setup, says a man on . drivers in 'pfot&t: against a man-> ' the inside, Matson began getting scribed as 19 years of age, brunette man was represented by Attorney . agement "cut-back” and “speed- : ? queries from Congressmen about and of slender build. James. King, ILWU lawyer. a up”, program which transferred - the best . and. cheapest, ways of perm. wont. t nrs. wy.j.Myra Berry Can’t-Talk At .Lurline’s Dock : 10 of an original 20 drivers to.un- taking trips to Hawaii. Despite Report until noon .Rm. ■ designated departments, reducing the fact that some of the in­ Perhaps it was the story of Foy Maluo’s injury, judged presently the number of personnel'by half, quirers were men who figured to Bellfiloweir 'that Berry wanted to- to be partial paralysis of an arm ? but doing nothing toward lessen­ have influence with the Civil tell the RECORD. On Wednesday, ■'and a leg, occurred last Dec. 5, on ing the volume .of work normally Aeronautics Commission, the he called the RECORD office and a day the Lurline was- docking. performed by -the-original 20. Matson official in charge didn’t said he had new revelations he After working earlier in the day . Short of Superman catch wise that complimentary (more on page 5) at Piers 2 and 9, he was assigned trips were in order. - to help another longshoreman,' The "improved” system means Alfred Kaanehe, catch one of the to an advertisement like that— that the one driver now remain­ That was bad. But it was Lurline’s ■ six lines as they were it might queer sales among fam­ ing on the 11 p. m. to 7 a. m. night worse, says the insider, when Police Lose Again thrown by seamen to the docks to ilies who are neither hade nor shift must work an entirely unin­ the Democratic National Party be made fast. “Japanese*'and ft might'irritate terrupted eight-hour grind, eat hit Matson for a $50,000 cam­ His next job was to help hoist any of .the thousands , of .union. while driving (because there is no paign fund contribution in 1948 On A & B Charge the passenger gangplank to con­ . men who axe- interested , in buy- . time allowance for lunch), drive and got turned down. nect the second story of Her 11 ing books to help their children two trucks alternately all night, It was . no- mere: coincidence, with the boat deck of the Lurline, get an education.' connect and disconnect trailers the insider continued, that Mat- and it was while’working at this But the • address where appli- for both trucks at starting and son began to fold the air.opera­ By 'Move On'^op unloading points, and keep both . tion up after the national Dem­ (more on page 7) of them running without interrup­ ocratic victory. Stupidity’s div­ The Police Department lost tion in order to obtain the highest idends had become painfully . another case rjsing from 'the measure of “productivity.” obvious. “move on” policy Tuesday when Judge Joseph Akau acquitted Fe­ Manila Policy Returns Many Wives, lipe Cabradilla, 50, of assault and battery against police -Foot Patrol­ man Clarence Hurley. Students, Officials From U. S.-Aliate Civil Service Manual Said Delayed By The incident occurred at a Bere- The sudden return to the Phil­ carry out the austerity .program tania St. poolroom on the evening of the Philippine.government. - Price's Unauthorized $675 Boost of July 3, after Hurley ordered a ippines of military attaches, stu­ , He did not comment when asked number of men of Filipino extrac­ dents studying abroad on gov­ ’ about reports' that > Carlos Romulo, What was the motive of C-C civ­ technical staff, the RECORD has tion to move on. All but Cabradilla ernment-sponsored programs, and il’ service examiner Aubrey N. learned, and that request was for obeyed. After the order was. re-. secretary of foreign affairs, is Price in boosting a requisition to the correct amount, $300... But ’ peated, Cabradilla complied, step-.. wives and other dependents of planning, a shake-up of the.Philip­ the board of supervisors from $3b0 later, another request, without any ' ping ' into' the poolroom, und it is consulate staff members has start­ pines foreign service. to $975? authority from the commission, believed his:hesitation was a re- ed various reports and rumors in Locally, no changes are con­ the local Filipino community. • templated,- Mr. Alzate said. He Price is believed to have ex­ went to Mr. Keppeler from Mr. sult of difficulty he has under­ added that he has been asked by plained to the civil service com­ (more on page 5) standing English. t Consul General Manuel A. AI- his home office to remain here as mission _ that it was because he Didn’t Understand : zate informed the RECORD that consul general for the Hawaiian “thought it was better.” But his Hurley, on the stand, testified he has written his home office in Islands and the Marianas Islands; explanation has not been accept­ U. of H. Prof. Won't that he had entered, the poolroom Manila- for his government’s ed, it is said, at face value by the to explain to Cabradilla the rea­ policy on the particular matter commissioners who passed a mo­ sons for ordering him‘to move, of returning dependents of the Not In Matson's Bed, tion June 3O to ask the board for Deny He Was Informer but that he still had difficulty consulate staff to the Philip­ $300—not $975—to finance the making the man understand.. pines. preparation of a civil service pro­ Against Alien Seaman 1 When a number > of other men If an emergency should arise, Pacific Transport Lines cedure manual. gathered around the pair, Hurley he said, travel facilities may not -At the June 30 meeting it was Jose Bradshaw, alien * seaman said, he thought.-he could explain be available and families of-the Executive Coppel Says ascertained that only $800 re­ who has been held by the U. S. better outside, but when he asked consulate employes, would be mained in the fund available to Immigration Bureau here for Cabradilla out, he still could not stranded. “The Matson Navigation . Co; is the commission for such purposes, three months, was recently or­ get his meaning across. Even today, he commented, he fighting us tooth and nail. If they and the request for $300 was to dered departed by the U. S. At­ "'Far what?” was Cabradilla’s and his staff' -were^caught un­ ran freeze us out they will,” said. supplement that amount and pro­ torney General, Bradshaw’s union, reply, according to the policeman. awares by the rice shortage. (The Stanley G. Coppel, assistant to the vide out of the total, $975, which Marine Cooks 'and Stewards has ? At that point, Hurley said, Oa- ' shortage was caused: by hoarding). vice president of the-Paeific Trans­ was to be the cost of the manual ■been officially informed. As re­ bradilla dove in eomething like a As for the recent stepped-up port Lines, Inc.; which-has recent­ First Request Correct ported in last - week’s RECORD, ..football tackle and grabbed him return to. the Philippines of stu­ ly entered Hawaii-West Coast The first request, sent to Con­ Bradshaw, a Panamanian, . was around the legs. Under arose ex­ dents and some others connected ’shipping.. - . troller Paul Keppeler, was made taken off an American President amination of, Attorney Myer C. with government: employment, by Albert Lee, of the civil service (more on page 7) ' (more on page 7) Mr. Alzate said this was done to (more on page 7) Page Two HONOLULU RECORD July 20, 1950 Chesterfields Retreat Snyder Gets , The GIs laughed as they got off the Marxist Label Kunming, Chino, after the flight National Summary ov^ l^^umF1’ during the last war, to A battery of corporation spokesmen last week pounded their , views against mem­ discover pn the streets of interior China : ed: “The higher prices of meat—near rec­ bers of the Senate Finance Committee, try­ cigarettes packaged just like '"Ain&tcan Big Profits ord in many cities—are part of a general won’t go to pot so long as ing to soften them up with the idea that brands. The packages had practically the pattern in - which housewives are paying war is a threat, so* every alarm can they should go easy on business taxes. The sine designs—the red circle of Lucky more for almost all types of food.” be used to step up splmding-lendlng for representatives of big. business showed that Strikes and the camel of Camels. Only More than anyone else, the small wage­ defense at home and for aid abroad.” they would fight attempts by Congress to the names of the brands were different, the earning consumers took the .. worst beat­ THUS,' BUSINESS WEEK, a weekly slice off their income. i quality of the paper of the package was ing. They were hit by the flurry of price magazine for big businessmen primarily, FAST ON THE TRIGGER, one of the inferior and there was no cellophane, cov­ boosts, as sugar, pork, ham, beef, flour and candidly stated that the inflation it had corporation boys took a mean shot at Treas­ ering. practically everything suddenly were jacked not long ago been concerned about and the ury Secretary John Snyder, a small-town AMERICAN PRODUCTS were extreme­ up a few cents. An artificial scarcity caused banker before President Truman brought ly popular. Standard brand U._ S. cigarettes looming depression, can be shoved away by rearmament. Arms spending would jump not only by consumer hoarders but by large him to the national capital. Snyder is a sold for as high as $20 a carton in the black up drastically, and profits would soar to distributors who clean-swept the market serious and conservative man and is the market, and the rich Chinese gladly paid an all-time high. and hung on. to products, helped boost type of person who would stare in disbe­ ' the price to puff the imported brand com­ Commented the magazine: “Truman’s prices. lief if anyone called him a Marxist straight ing out of GI rations. - ' decision to maintain defense spending at SOME CONSUMERS bought extra ap­ to his face. This immense market of China has been a $13-$15 billion plateau will be ditched. pliances and stored them in their houses, out of reach of American exporters since Congress probably will be getting requests possibly for future use if the appliance fac­ That’s what happened, however, as Uie cold war dampened prospective trade. from the Pentagon for as much as $17 bil­ tories-turned to war production. Others' Charles R. Sligh, tax expert of the Na­ West Coast businesses have suffered from lion “in fiscal year 1952. And “the Pentagon with extra cash to play with, invested in tional Association of Manufacturers, opened will probably get its way.” "the shrinking market in the Far East, par­ stoves and refrigerators, gambling on the up on Snyder. The Secretary of the Treas­ With no price ceilings, the profiteers scarcity and hoping to cash in as months ticularly in China, with 450 million people. ury had pointed toward the probable cost Last week, Liggett* Myers, who have throughout the nation were latching onto, go by. Hoarding was national. made Chesterfield cigarettes In San Fran­ the Korean war as an excuse for raising All of this was peanuts compared to of the Korean war, and had asked the Sen­ cisco since 1912, decided to close down op­ prices. Military expenditures would bring what the big companies were making. In ate committee at least’to preserve the cor­ erations on the West Coast because of loss the biggest take, but not all were-iri^the Detroit, the army’s Ordnance District an­ poration taxes voted by the House. If pos­ of Far Eastern trade. It would concen-. armament making class. And small and big nounced that the auto industry had re­ sible, Snyder asked, increase the taxes. trate its manufacturing in Durham, if. C. businessmen rode on the crest of frantic ceived the greatest peacetime volume of SLIGH CUT LOOSE in this manner: hoarding and buying and cleaned up a neat military orders since the last war. This “Karl Marx, the father of Communism, WHEN THE SAN FRANCISCO plant sum. closes' Sept: 29, 500 workers will be out of did not include the stepped-up production proposed heavy graduated income taxes as ■work arid the only cigarette factory west THE COST OF LIVING was already on after the Korean war started. Juicy con­ an effective way to communize an ad­ of the Mississippi becomes a cold war. the tJjoswing before the Korean conflict tracts arising out of American needs in vanced capitalist economy." started. ’ A UP survey in June had teport- casualty; '' Korea will come later, the district declared Snyder was pretty much dumbfounded. Said Earl: “I did not think the Ameri­ The Gumbatsu can labor movement should lend itself to Takes Heart anything so corrupt.” The Korean outbreak pumped tremen­ World Summary WHAT-. EARL SAID was reminiscent of dous hope ' into Japan’s unreconstructed . what others had said of the Kuomintang ; , , , x xi. j -kx-uw™ Japan, visiting shrines and talking tojfori cupation, ■and the attraction The Korean " militarists, whd look to the day when they-—officers.” ----- — ------’’ ------leaders, steeped-in corruption and graft. war has encouraged'thiFNatiohalists—^for •will be in power .again. He worfdered aloud: IT wonder what, has NEMOTO, the militarist leader, dreams they want to regain their power by military '^low’happenedto the arrogant, horse-riding WRITING FROM JAPAN, Robert P. ■ of the day. when he and Chiang’s forces • participation. - South Korean officers who committed so Martin, -Oyerseas~News Agericy^correspond- would launch an expedition-ti>‘the main-7 Said Nakajima: f’Thereare' plenty -of• " many7hidlgnltles'on”thetr-f eHow'^Koreahs?’’-' ent, said recently: "A. number of high. land.- ■' ' Japanese who would fight under American On the war fronts the South Korean American officers . . . are/giving at least The militarists have faced the difficulty command. Besides, there are 20 million too troops, routed and battered back, found implied support to the aspirations of the of financing their program. Nemoto at one many Japanese.” themselves crowded out as.more U. S. troops Japanese militarists. These Americans are time planned to have about 3,000 specialists poured into the fighting on the peninsula.: hot thinking in terms of Japan’s political on Formosa but one of his henchmen ab­ “Korean Fiasco” This week two U. S.divisions landed on future, but rather, in terms of American sconded with the funds contributed by the Stanley Earl, Marshall-Plan labor con­ Korea, one (the First Cavalry) on the east ■ ■ strategic requirements. They are not re­ . Nationalists. But there are ways of raising sultant in South Korea, just evacuated with coast where reports -had indicated that viving the army now, but they maintaiir funds and one of them is selling insurance. his family from the wartorn country, had guerrilla action had imperiled .the supply .contact with key Japanese officers on the An American observer in Japan told two words to describe the situation that line between Pusan and.Taejon. The oth­ theory that; if the United States ever-de­ .Martin: “Japanese businessmen just love led to the virtual collapse of the Syngman er was the 25th Division which reinforced cides to use Japanese manpower, the Amer­ to buy insurance from former officers.” Rhee forces—“Korean fiasco.” the 24th in the centra) sector. icans should know what men can be count­ THE MILITARY clique has gone into EARLIER, AS THE northern troops” - U. S. aircraft dominated the air and ed on to ‘play ball.’ ” pushed down toward Seoul, Earl described business ventures to raise money for their Superforts flattened. North Korean cities. Correspondent Martin said that the the attitude of the general' populace as long-range venture. An ex-general and Fighters and smaller bombers supported American officers definitely do not include 100 of his former subordinates have gone "apathetic." Something was wrong and U, S. and South Korean ground troops who Gen. Douglas MacArthur. T)f£y are under into cooperative farming on the aban­ Earl pinned the blame on the “corrupt” withdrew south of the Kum River. The MacArthur. - doned air-strip near Miyakonojo. Ex-Navy Syngman Rhee government and the Ameri­ northern drive slackened during the early To help Chiang Kai-shek defend For­ can diplomats who, he criticized, sat at Captain Yamada manages one of the big­ part of this week and various explanations mosa, top Japanese military commanders their desks and didn’t know what went on gest canneries located at Sasebo, the former were given by U. S. headquarters in South of the last war are being used as advisers. in the Korean minds. •' naval base. His personnel director is ex­ Korea. General Hiroshi Nemoto, former com- Major General Takayamagi. Every work­ Blasted Earl, who said Washington will QUESTIONS WERE asked whether the ■ mander-in-chief of the Japanese Expedi­ hear his story:. “Some of our diplomats er there is either an ex-army or np-vy offi­ Northern troops would adopt guerrilla tac­ tionary Forces in North China, is now head cer. are too much-above the people. You can’t tics against the mass and force of the Of a 25-man group of technical advisers to instill democracy with cocktail parties for Some ex-navy officers have gone in for highly mechanized, modern U. S. troops. the 7gdheralissimo. One of the 25,. Yui •the big shots and; conferences with the quick ■ money and have been arrested for The North Koreans were carrying-on land Yokoyama, is recruiting ex-pilots in Japan their part in the extremely profitable smug­ bankers. I told them to go out and talk reform policies in occupied nreM,. breaking for service in Formosa. gling business; • But, writes Martin, none to the people, but they never did.” of them have been tried'yet. up large landholdings and distributing IN THE NEMOTO group are intelli­ Not only f was Congress going to hear THE GUMBATSU have not openly them to peasants. One of .the key long- gence experts who have devoted much time about the “Korean fiasco” but, Earl said: . teamed up with the Zaibatsu, the financial range questiops was what kind of support to the study of the Chinese Communists. “I am going to tell the CIO and the AFL magnates, but both have similar views as would the Northerners get in South Korea IJeut. Gen. Sadamichi' Osako was at one and the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen they look into the future. Martin gives among the peasants and workers? time head of special intelligence in North two examples of the powerful ultra-nation­ just what conditions are in South Korea. China, the base of operations of the Chi­ alist organizations. I’m going to blow thp lid off. Just wait till IN WASHINGTON; official and nom- nese Communists during the war. He ad­ Takomatsu' Nakajima, tough and ruth­ I get to .Washington,” •official observers of the Korean situation vocated a scorched-earth policy if the less mine owner, has three great hatreds— THE COLLAPSE of-the South Korean predicted that the Korean war would last democracy, labor unions and communists. forces and the lack of enthusiasm of the six months. Others felt that U. S. troops Americans invaded Japan. Another in­ Another, Seishi Fukushima, despises democ-_ telligence officer is Lieut Gen. Tokutaro people to resist the Northern .troops,. de­ .would suffer further military setbacks.- racy and talks of a "300-year revolution” spite months, and months of ■ antUCom- Sakurai, who headed Japanese military fn- in Japan that will merge "Eastern spiritual­ President Truman asked for a $10 billion -Mligence in Manchuria. munist propaganda by the Republic, were ism and Western ■ materialism,” He says, ■attributed to. oppression, suppression , and ■ program from Congress to provide the ONA's Martin writes: "After the end of the “Endless- continuation of- the Japanese regimentation of the South Korean work-, manpower and material for the Korean the war; Sakurai organized the ‘Admiration Imperial Family is a material expression ers and 'peasants by Syngman: Rhee and war and for any conflict that might devel^ of. Dead Heroes Association,’ which en­ of - the spiritual development. of the Japa- his group that "nnnlrin’t distinguish he- op elsewhere.. The U-. S. has pledged sup­ couraged prayer for the spirits of Japan’s nese race, . which is unmatched in the tween communism ahd unionism." : The :: port to Chiang. Kai-shek’s Formosa, to In- war heroes. As: head of the association, world.” prlsoris were bulging with 150,000 people do-China and to the Philippines, among Sakurai traveled extensively throughout HERE ARE THE PROBLEMS of the oc- with families put in -jail. , other areas.’- - - July 20, 1950 rage inrw

CONGRESSMAN OiSlPP^ ®f YOMEN 1 [ * Yap Gets Called 442nd Undecided On Action In Maui A "Radical" For Issue; YBA Brings "Akiretg-Boyt"; ’ . -.-II.- -1-r Tr ‘ W 'l The 442nd Club doesn’t Jpow^'was used as an excuse for not ap- Taking Uo-Am Job __ ■>. - r ix_ „zu’ .cu—-'if—' - i nAQviniT Ar ■. • dispute arising from the failure “My assumption is that we are Thomas Treadway, real estate ■ of Miss Shizuko Kasagi, the to go in as arbitrator,” Aoki com-, agent with offices -at- 921 Alakea “Boogie Woogie Queen of Japan,” merited. ' St., was surprised when he heard He said that the Maui vets had' to fulfill her engagement on Maui requested the Honolulu headquar-; Alfred Yap, called the co-author where her appearance was spon­ ters to send one of its officers to of Senator Hugh Butler’s report sored by the Maui 442nd Club, Daniel Aoki, president of the 442nd the Valley Island to hear com­ against statehood, had got him­ plaints and Akira Fukunaga, ex­ Club told the RECORD. ecutive secretary, made the trip. self a job with the House un- Miss Kasagi pleaded illness and American Activities Committee. The Akireta Boys, a troupe of Fred Matsuo, one of the promoters Japanese entertainers now per­ “I knew he was a Democrat,” who brought her from Japan, said forming in the islands, has been says Treadway, “but I didn’t she was unable to perform for this brought here by the Young Bud­ know he was a radical.” reason. The Maui vets felt illness dhist Association and not by the Before he renewed an old ac­ Matsuo brothers, as reported in quaintanceship with Rep. Francis the RECORD last week. Walters, during the House com­ The-YBA brought the Japanese mittee’s hearing in Honolulu, Yap Rent Violation performers with the help of the was selling real estate, operating , Community Chest, according to out of Treadway’s office—within Mackay Yanagisawa, who is co- limitations. Crackdown Has chairman of the YBA annual bene­ “I didn’t want him in the of­ fit show with Attorney Shiro Ka­ fice,” says Treadway, “so I told shiwa, president of the Honolulu Big Limitation YBA. him he couldn’t get space here. The Buddhist organization is But he was a nice fellow per­ While William E. Males, admin­ raising money for the late Bishop sonally, and I told him he could istrator of the city’s rent control Yemmyo Imamura Memorial Au­ get his mail here and use the commission, - promised to crack­ ditorium Building Fund. telephone.” down oh landlords who violated The YBA has “no affiliation It is Treadway’s opinion, he told the law, the agency’s investigators with Matsuo brothers,” a spokes­ the RECORD, that Yap operated check up only on cases reported man of the organization said. in that manner through several to their office. offices in the city. He doesn’t “When we are notified we in­ 4(He’s brooding. Hls.picture hasn’t appeared in the papers for three days.” believe Yap did very well at sell­ vestigate but we don’t go in- ing-real estate. - tigating by ourselves,” said a staff UPW Gets Donation Treadway says he didn’t want member of the rent control agen­ Yap in his office because of his cy. “So we can’t say how many From Lanai Man for manner in selling real estate. landlords have not reported rental Political Sidelights “He was too radical,” Tread­ units to us.” • Help In USED Claims way said. No Record For 9 Years PATRONAGE is proof of party can squeeze by on a small budget Thus, this employe was not sur­ A visitor from Lanai dropped in.: control aud/the roster ot employes but it can accomplish a lot of prised that Landlord Albert A. at the local office, of the . United necessary work if it gets additional Auybtng’s records: show that he Public Workers of America (UPW) ait the > Constitutional Convention dollars. Plantations Demanded registered his housing units only at 1415 Nuuanu St. last week to showed .that the Republicans ■ J - * ♦ • * last year while all rental units discuss the annual leave-back pay monopolized the high-paid to less- JOHN AKAU, JR., on the other Passes In Early '30s should have been reported to :tha which the United States'Engineer­ er-pald; Jobs. That’s reward fori hand, is reportedly working with a commission back in 1941. ing Department owed workers .- party loyalty-to old-timers, and $1,200 budget at his Merchant St. “The younger generation may The files in the City Hall show here. for the lukewarm and .neophytes, office.'' The right-wing "Demos' not realize it, but thfe plantations that Auyong reported in Septem­ The union had. publicized bait that a few nibble ait but many •goal is to sign up 10;000 members. have softened up quite a bit,” a ber, 1949,. that.hewas renting ..out claims .due. .wartime. USED' liin- swallow..._ _ ... __ ,.:;At..the • Oahu -Democratic--.county Filipino businessman- who-- visited two housing units: Th November, "jiioyes 'and had helped AtefR"* ■ ■■■■■' 'the plantations during the early thousand file for the back pay. "committee meeting last week" at ’30s told the RECORD. according to the records, he regis­ VvjuiLE • THE Republicans mo­ Central Intermediate School, some tered two more rental units.- These ■ . The visitor from Lanai was ac­ nopolized the political plums, some members pooh-poohed Akau’s “During those days, we sales­ units have been occupied by ten­ companied by a friendwho was Democrats did very well for them­ claim of about- 1,500 registered men had to get.passes signed by ants for years. helping him locate the new union. selves. Senator William. Been, for by his faction. The 1,500 might the managers, to go into Wai­ Complete absence of informa­ -office which . had been moved instance, had Mrs. Eva Hart, his be an exaggerated figure, but re­ pahu, Ewa, Aiea and Kahuku. tion on Anyong*s rental units from Pier 11. law office secretary, working at ports from various districts say Kahuku was the strictest, re­ came to light, the RECORD After a long • discussion of the the convention for $550 a month. that Akau’s group is working hard quiring a new pass on every learned, when ■ one of his ten­ USED back pay, the Lanai man and not without results. trip,” he recalled. ants applied for public welfare asked what the-fee was the union “UNDEMOCRATIC” was the This businessman carried towels a^istance. A social worker, aft­ collected for assisting workers in and cosmetics in his bag. Once-a getting the - overdue claims. He word used frequently at the Oahu AN INTERESTINGquestlon was er the initial talk with the wel­ informed Henry Epstein of the Democratic County Committee! asked at the Democratic Oahu plantation policeman, in looking fare applicant^ called on the meeting last week in reference to county committee meeting last through his bag, saw a bottle of rent .control commission to de­ union that he had collected his the suspension of five members week. Someone wanted to- know hair pomade. He immediately- termine the correct rental. The back pay. and wanted to settle asked for the salesman’s pass, with the union which, had helped from the party by the Central if there is a regulation saying that files at City Hair contained no him. Committee for refusing to sign a precinct clubs should hold meet­ which he ripped into small pieces information whatsoever of Au- and tossed into the-wind. The services were-given strictly loyalty x. oath, stating whether or ings. Chairman Burns said there yong’s rental ■ units. voluntarily, Epstein answered. not they are - Communists. The is not. He explained that it is “I felt insulted and I asked him Auyong told the RECORD that - The man from Lanai asked County Committee unanimously not necessary to - hold precinct for an explanation," the salesman “I’m dead sure I have bld records voted to ask the Central Commit­ about the fee again to make sure meetings if the clubs can “turn said. to prove that I registered years he had heard; correctly. Before . tee to reconsider its position. out the votes” during the elections. The policeman informed him ago. But I can’t find them now. he left, he donated $20 as. a Harriet Bouslog took strong ex­ After the meeting, two Demo­ that the plantation store sold But if the rent control people contribution to the UPW. ception to -the Central Committee crats mulled over Burns’ state­ pomade and no outside salesman think I’m a bad egg, I’ll show ruling, saying that suspension fol­ ment. Said one: “Only active pre­ or peddler was permitted to com­ them I’m not.” At the end. of World War I, coal lowed “on the mere making of cincts can turn out the votes.” pete with the plantation stores. - Rent Brought Down supplied 78 per cent of the energy the charge” byone of its mem- Commented his companion: The plantation stores charged A staff member pf the rent con­ consumed in: the U. S. . By 1949, bors. This, she said, is a de­ "The county committeemen and higher prices than the salesman trol commission said that since the amount, supplied by coal had parture from the “basic principles committcewomen are delegates from Honolulu. there was nothing to show that dropped to 39 per cent, of the to­ of democratic constitutional law.” from precincts.. Aren’t they sup­ "I said this was unfair. I was Auyong had registered his rental tal. ■ ■: ' .■ ' posed to report back to their clubs? told passes can be revoked with­ units in 1941, an investigator was IF ALL rut Democratic pre­ And aren’t the clubs supposed to out notice. In those days the sent out. On two houses. where Furniture manufacturers booked cinct clubs paid in their $25 bien­ take up problems in their districts plantation cops carried arms and Auyong was charging $60 a month 24 per cent more orders in May nial assessment, the Oahu county to help the people and get their1 I didn’t argue further,” the sales­ each, the rent was brought down than in April. 1 / committee treasury would have support. The business must be man said. to $55. On two other units for close to $2,000. There are 71 pre­ conducted in meetings. At least, which Auyong had been collecting cinct clubs on On.hu' the precinct clubs must hold one Y. K. MAU, public relations man $50, the charges'were reduced, to meeting to' elect their officers . . ." of the C-C engineer’s department, $42.50. FINANCE COMMITTEE Chair­ “You're taking Jack Burns too; made a nice advance during his “I don’t mind the ten per man E. A. Brenner some time agoi literally,” said the other, and the first year. He got a $30.92 month­ cent cut,” Auyong said, referring appointed all members of the coun- two walked home. ly raise by reclassification from to the $5 reduction, but emphati­ ty committee to his committee, so CAF-8 to OAF-9. This, Messrs. cally remarked that “I don’t like that 'everyone would hejp-jeaiset HANS PETER FAYE, Territoflal Fong -and Keppeler say, happened the half business.” money. Brenner-has contributed Republican treasurer, has said without any change in duties for ' By “half business” he meant $5. In June, Daniel Inouye, sec­ that “deficit spending” is the Dem­ Mau. It happened, however, to the $2.50 which is an in-between* SERVICE STATION retary of the county committee, ocratic mode of operating the na­ the brother of Supervisor Chuck 516 ■ Dillingham Blvd. . gave $100. tional policy. The local Republi­ Miau. - figure. (near King St.) Penalty for failing to register- cans who ran the Constitutional Robert KempA, Mgr. WnH MONEY coming in slow­ Convention, put on a fine show of THE TALK THAT the Big Five with the commission carries a fine ly, the new office of the Oahu deficit spending and the governor would not spend money during of $1,000 or a year in prison, or county committee on Bethel and accommodated them. Some of the" the coming elections but would do both. Auyong was not fined. He Hotel Sts., has operated on a rock- jobs at the convention were out- everything to influence elected of­ ■ was not required to reimburse his bottom budget. of, $6.30 a month and-out political handouts and the ' ficials next spring, was current tenants-for the overcharge. Police Testtag Station No. 81 for office expenses. At this rate, GOP expects to cash in on them' before during and after the’ GOP “This is only one case. We only J. K. Wong Garage commented Daniel Inouye at the dining the elections. convention. Now, with the O. P. go after them when the tenants, county committee meeting, the of­ .With high- unemployment, one, , Soares group out of party control, report,” anothef staff member of general Aoto Repairing ", fice can run “smoothly” on $10 a can, of course, say that there was it is reported that the GOP finan­ the rent : control commission told 55 N. KUKUI STREET month, rent excepted. Inouye was nothing wrong in keeping 10 japi- cial angels will help raise an $85,- the RECORD. “Probably there, are Phone 57168'' - trying to impress the delegates tprs- in the armory. full time, at 000 campaign fund, of which part many who have not registered.. from the precincts that the office $250 a month each. will be used to pay off an old debt. We have no way of knowing” Paige Four HONOLULU? RECORD > « July 20, 1950 Clergymen Present; United Front To

IN FORMOSA, according -to of- JIMMY KANE, hotel manager Oppose New Construction Standards at 1162 Smith St.' is among those firial sources, liunSreds,. qf-^yery - By STAFF WRITER ■to name two instances of disasters wealthy men, former hotshots in’'’ 'Twhd.Hr^sept thp editorials which by fire in churches.” - label Smitii "Str'fc-.ap,. unsavory Whatever ,the.';city, 'fathers ex­ the Kuomintang regime but now pected from Bills 18 and 19, set­ His challenge was unaccepted. ' very cold, are jittering nervously “stid row,” etc. Kane, who" has The Rev. H. E. Hamme of the - been on the job'fbr two months, ting up standards for the con­ Lutheran Church of Honolulu, with insecurity and hunting some struction of churches, libraries, says he’s managed to rid his loca­ By STANLEY STEPHENS also called the,. proposals “dis­ place to jump. Not too, long ago, -schools, etc., they could hardly criminatory” against churches in one came through here, bound, for tion of any reputation it had as Federated Pre^ have expected the avalanche of„ that they must have a consid­ the Mainland on a “vacation,” and a dancehall establishment. It Feature-Length Labor Film _ protest they got from the city’s erable amount of mopey before declared a quarter of a million doesn’t help, he says, that the While not filling the need for clergy. Although churches were they can comply. dollars he was carrying along. His • place, along with others nearby, a real labor movie, made by a only one of the types of struc­ “What is a church?” the Rev. object, it was felt, could only be --- , ____ commercial producer and present­ tures affected by the proposals, Hamme asked. “It is not a build­ . that of trying his best to stay in has been declared out nf 99 per cent of the opposition came ing. It is people. It may be twen­ . the U. S., by'hook pr crook. Oth- to the military, but at least ed to the world as straight enter­ tainment, With These Hands, the from churchmen. ty people.” ers, despairing of entry into the convinced the vice squad to the Services In Garage Middle h^Eavse.t. f0™d refuge “• the visits awnyhe mreo rie<;. sKeldaonme isp aay sn hiJm International Ladies Garment Well in the vanguard of the as­ Workers Union. (AFL) feature now sault on proposed construction The Lutheran policy, the Rev. Hamme said; is to send out a pas­ Seraim the theatrical. not the playing in New York, will do till standards at Tuesday’s meeting hteral sense, by the way — and something better comes along. of the board of supervisors were tor who holds services in his own “IT WOULD BE interesting,” out to show any place where an Running about 45 minutes, it is the Rev. H. B. Ransour of" the home until he has a group large says a former civil service com-' act is needed. . a semi-documentary . account of Nuuanu Baptist Church; Father enough to be able to afford a Edward Donze of the Star of the church. He cited an instance of missioner, “to figure up how much ■ v the union’s growth over 40 years, a Lutheran pastor in California money taxpayers put out to be MARVELLING , at the logic of seen through the eyes of one mem- Sea'Church, and the Rev. Dr. L. told how well they are served. ber. The leading character is M. Barrett,- who is both pastor of who held. services in a garage, the Health Department, a C-O . the First Baptist Church and' draped with silk from a parachute They call it public relations,, but garbage man commented that-his played by Sam Levene who, fine he brought back from the war. it’s really a nice boost for the de­ annual examination .had carried actor that he is, has never done president of Jackson College. A complaint the ministers had “That could not happen in Ho­ partment heads who have to be the observation that he ought to a better job. Has wife is sympa­ nolulu,” said the . Rev. Hamme, elected. With public relations de­ do something about his teeth. thetically, if at : times somewhat in cojnmon was one against the partments, they can campaign the parking lots demanded by Bill “not if these bills become laws.”' “Do they think'I carry the gar­ - woodenly, portrayed by Arlene Another . minister stepped up ■whole year found.” bage cans,in my'teeth?” he asked Francis, and Joseph Wiseman does - 19—one space for each 10 seats in-. a bang-up job in the main sup- ■ side. " , " to say: “Christ was born in a wonderingly. ' . porting role, that of a consump­ • manger. Our church was born "THE UN-AMERICANS of the All of which points up the man- " On Sunday They Sleep in a barn.” Wood committee, reporting on thd tive garment worker who becomes The Rev. Ransour pointed out -ner in which physical- exams given “arrested” at the union’s sana­ If the bills are passed, the, Rev- Hawaii Civil Liberties-Committee, C-O employes do NOT emphasize that such a requirement runs the Dr. .Barrett asked, will they be: reported correctly that the HCLC torium and comes back to be a cost of building a church up great­ retroactive? the physical - qualities needed for volunteer organizer. advertised in the RECORD. They the jobs. In other words, there ly and that land isn’t available, “If they are, we might as well did. not report, however, that the is little distinction made between ■ With flashbacks and personal even if the church has the money set fire to our church now and; organization also advertised in the the exam given a garbage man asides,'the life of the main charac­ to buy, and "besides, on Sunday get out,” said the minister. “It’s, two dailies. and that given a CAF-4 ’ office ■ ter is shown to be bound up in­ there isn’t much traffic—that's full of termites.”. worker. timately with that of the union. when people stay home and sleep.”. Before- this .assault, both the FEED .MATSUO,-whatever he Tire film stresses the pioneering Father Donze said his .church proponents of the measures and may lose by Miss "Shizuko Kasagi's role of the ILGWU in providing had been: faced with the pros­ the supervisors were, generally si­ SGT. PAUL SHAFFER of the a miniature “welfare state” for disputed, -illness on Maui' (see vice squad, added something to his pect of having to operate on one lent, though one Warren Titus, a RECORD last week), will probably • its members rather than its. direct acre until the Star of the- Sea Manoa resident, had. the' courage reputation for sadistic questioning, wage gains? For ILGWU members not miss any meals. He’s moving following last Thursday’s raid at had been able to buy 1414 acres' to express the hope that the su- ' to his new home at Beverly Hills, . (you can hear their titters of rec­ of property -presently inhabited pervisors would “protect my in­ 1188 Maunakea. St., when he al­ ognition in the audience), this Calif., , any time now. It’s on a legedly dusted cigarette ashes into by chicken raisers. The chicken vestment,” by seeing , to it that street with the verbose name of . is a stirring evocation of what ■raisers were hurt, he said, “but - nothing happens to cause real the eyes of one or more of his. sub­ they and their-union have done. “El Camino Drive." jects. The fact that ■ a number’ then someone 'always has to be estate7 values there to drop. For general audiences -it is exciting, hurt.” of the 22 have frequently been intelligent and "deeply moving. A LOCAL GAMBLER who has arrested for gambling.before would “I don’t know . what?, weld , do been rapped twice by the law late- - not-geem to be an excuse for ges- Many .students of the . labor under this bill,” Father Donze Au Young Is Elected ly, con tinu es-to send his . ropers'' tapo.methods. Nor has the officer! movement,;njay: disagree, .with the sa^d, “If-we were trying to,operate into the -mid-town area 'just the with Badge No. 562 any very valid script’s blithe' maim "of summing' - on one acre.” ' . • -v‘ - same. Apparently, he doesn’t be­ up the socalled Communist effort reason for trying to get into the , A Manoa resident turned at­ lieve it! .• The ropers are geared act by coming; along after, the to wreck the union in the ’20s to talk on different levels—one’s through alleged impossible de­ tention to school parking when Junior Organization arrest and threatening to “Kick she said she felt Jackson College rix feet and. the other about five. the -——’’ out of an old Chinese mands and sabotage of organiza­ ....Electing: a fullf slate of- officers,-, tion. But that is a’relatively minor would’ be a problem. , The Rev. man who didn’t answer questions . Dr. Barrett, who had spoken ear­ the newly organized. ■; Hawaiian ;. ONE . OF THE C-C’s "most high­ and who can’t,talk much English. flaw in an otherwise important Homesteaders Improvement Junior* picture. lier in his role as pastor, then re­ ly paid employes runs consider­ Three of the vice squad men, by verted to his position as president Club heid its first general mem­ able risk of getting himself- into the way, arrived in an ORAL cab. of Jackson College to spy he’d bership meeting : at Kalawahine, the same-sort of jam as the ’Tiser’s The Lawless Say Important never yet seen a. car parked in July 16. ~ and the BBS’s anonymous busi­ THE I*' Ij LLEK, BRUSH- CO. lost Things Blit Not Well Enough front of . the school. . Operating under the leadership. nessman, “George. Spelvin.” If it a chance to hire a crack salesman Latest Hollywood producers tof “The.dnly parking problem I’ve of Mr. John Watson as advisor and ■" should happen to him, few of his not long ago because of their poli­ try to do something with social seen there,” he said, “is when the Mr. Ferdinand Kamaka .as or­ subordinates would be sorry, but cy before the war.. When an agent significance are Paramount’s “Dol­ ganizer"; the club has as- its ob­ he’s vulnerable on many different ladies, have their parties at night.” ject the improvement of the gen­ of the company approached him lar Bills;” Bill Thomas and Bill The resident, a woman, hastily grounds—all involving sex. And and offered him a job, the sales-' Pine, known for their money­ eral welfare and life 'among young those who have the facts are be­ said she had been speaking in homesteaders, with: special empha­ man told him he’d never work for making quickies which have been terms of the future. : coming more hostile toward him that company. Before the war, steady program fillers for the stu­ sis on the improvement of rec- daily. ■ it wouldn’t - hire Japanese, al­ dio. They have come up with an No Fires In Churches ' reational: facilities. The club has though it did have Chinese sales­ unexpectedly well-intentioned film The Rev. Ransour charged anti­ been assisted by contributions THOUGHTS ON THE atom men. called The Lawless dealing with church' discrimination in regula­ from a number of interested bomb expressed in Bucklin Moon’s the problem of the Mexican- tions that would require church friends. latest, ' “Without Magnolias,” buildings to be- of “second grade,” Officers elected were: Chairman, LAWRENCE S. GOTO’s chances American minority in a small Cali­ William Au.Young; first vice.chair­ (Pocketbooks, 25 cents) may be of getting a CAF-14 rating, in thei fornia town. and no more than two stories high. "worth considering, now that the He said his church is planning a man,. William Kaohi ; second- vice reconsideration by the civil serv­ The Lawless of the title are chairman; Elizabeth Momi Miha; pros' and cons of dropping the ice reclassification board 'will not three-story structure and an aux- , •the majority inhabitants who; un­ iliary.building which would prob­ recording secretary,- Annie-Louis; . bomb in Korea are being discussed. be decreased by the following der a hysteria whipped up by treasurer,: Robert Stender; ser- The first reaction of Moon’s char­ facts: (1) He is largely responsible ably not pass muster as “second - press, radio and TV (shown, for grade.” If the two-story restric­ geants-at-arms, Kenneth Santos, acters, Negroes, to the Hiroshima ■ for administering a cash balance the first time In its terrifying Samuel Kahoolulo :and David bomb is—they would never have of something like twenty million reality in the hands of irrespon­ tion was meant as a’fire preven­ dropped the bomb on white vic­ tion measure, the- minister said, it' Louis. dollars, (2) he supervises the reg­ sible rabble-rousers), betray every was unnecessary. God’s blessing was asked for the tims, and that, even had the bomb istration and licensing of 92,000 traditional American" concept of club’s success, and a motion of ap­ been ready, it would never have motor vehicles, (3) he enjoys, such justice, law and order. “I- would like to challenge any proval of the Honolulu RECORD been dropped on Germany. It’s a reputation for efficiency, "despite The picture is well directed by^. member of the board," he said, was made. Movies were . shown also their second and permanent his unpopularity in some circles, Joe Losey , and most of the cast ‘•on any member of the audience and refreshments served.. reaction, and it reflects what Moon that Jack King once refused ta are good: MacDonald Carey as calls "the unconscious reflection run\ against his boss, William the jaded foreign correspondent, of American domestic policy in Chung-Hoon, after a man of some Gail Russell as a Mexican-Amer­ Flowers for all occasions. ' Remember with Flowers her dealings with other nations.’’ wealth had offered to-, finance. ican news gal and Lalo Rios, culled The book’s worth reading for a lot . King’s campaign—if he’d promise off Los Angeles’ streets, as the Malaki Florist - of other reasons, too. to fire Goto, The deputy treasur­ boy, are fine. But the script hedges Walter Honda, Prop. Kodani Florist er gets ■ many a boost from stu­ often, leaves too much.unsaid and. Free delivery Phone 56070 _■ A KOREAN VET, recalling the dents of government who :have unfortunately retains the mark of r 1363 S. Beretania St. 307 Keawe St. - Honolulu, Hawaii days following Pearl Harbor, won­ never seen him and who know him .the Pine-Thomas quickie tech­ Ph. 4658 v HILO, HAWAII dered if Koreans will be rounded, only through studying his work. nique. ■ up now and asked whether their, What could have been a great ancestral ties are with the north­ DR. THOMAS MOSSMAN andt picture emerges only as one with HONOLULU RECORD ern. or . southern- parts of Korea. " his chief administrator, Edward. P. fine intentions and some high Remembering the somewhat hys­ Toner, were said to be more than spots of emotional content. It’s Published - Every' Thursday Corner . terical days of ’42, "the vet said: a little surprised , that they were worth seeing and worth support­ by “You know, I thought it was go­ not consulted, before the finance ing.-Maybe the producers will go Honolulu Record Publishing Liquor Store ing to- be,bad for. me if they put committee of the Board of Super­ on to better things if they see Company; Ltd. all the Japanese away, because all visors made a $16,000 appropria­ this pays. off. \ > Complete Lines of -Popular ; iny friends were • Japanese. I tion for the Aiea Community Hos­ 811 Sheridan St., Honolulu, T. H. Beer—Wines^-Idquors ■ tticught if that happened, I would pital. Or maybe the finance com­ Living costs rose 0.8 per cent be­ Entered as second-class matter ■volunteer to" go in the camp if mittee thought it had-enough in­ tween April 15 and May'15,' the May 10, 1949, at the Post Office at WILFRED M. OKA, Mgr. they’d let me. I’d rather have Honolulu; Hawaii, under the Act of formation from Chairman Ernest U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 1042 Bethel St. —TeL 54815 been inside with my friends than Heen—a director of the Aiea in- reports. .This was the biggest rise March 3, 1879. outside and alone." • stitution. . since July 1948. July 20, 1950 HONOLULU RECORD Page Five Star Ballroom Boss Says Dancers Like School Children; Need Rules By SPECIAL WRITER cent hourly pay for the week. - the blame for the customers’ griev­ Complaints by dance hall hos­ Checkers Draw Ire ances. ■ tesses have started the Territorial A complaint which the hostesses When a customer skips the Wage and Hour Division to inves­ have against various dance hall dance hall’without paying for tigate working conditions in Ho­ managements is the system of his dance, the hostesses are nolulu’s dance halls, William T. checking on their dances. At the charged 25 cents for each dance, Silva, senior inspector, told the Star Ballroom there are two check­ which is the management’s part RECORD this week. ers. The hostesses carry a pencil of the take. Some hostesses and a paper stuck in their cigar­ feel that the doorman should Harsh Deductions ette packs to tally their dances, help them collect from customers Dance Hostesses, at least in one because the customers sometimes trying to escape payment, thus establishment, are charged 50 cents - - say the checkers overcharge them. tin-owing the blame for the man­ whenever they, spend jnore than Some customers want an account­ agement’s policy on the doorman. 10 minutes away from their seats, ing after dancing a dozen or two “The bosses make the dough. without the company of a cus­ dozen times. It is said that some Some of us make a little. Some’ tomer. VThey do not get their 75 hostesses side with the customers are wall flowers. But we get. the cents an hour pay for the whole who feel that they have been over­ short end and get raw deals,” saitf night if they report late, and if charged, and the girls have to take a hostess. they are late on one of the busy nights, they won’t get the hourly pay for the whole week, even if they dance until their bodies ache and feet blister. Their take would Civil Service Manual Said Delayed By be only the 50-50 split on the 50 cents charged each customer for a dance. Price's Unauthorized $675 Boost (from page 1) operating in the city hall for 10 The Star Ballroom, the REC­ Price, and it was this request that years, i no procedure manual has ORD learned, has a system of de­ Keppeler presented before the fi­ ever been written. E. C. • Gallas, in ACADEMIC FREEDOM—“For punishment stay after school and write ducting 50 cents from the hostess­ his report to the mayor on C-G es’ pay whenever they spend more nance committee of the board of on the blackboard 50 times, Unions are un-American.” supervisors. personnel practices, recommended than 10' minutes by themselves, that such a manual, should be either in the restroom or at the A supervisor, learning- of the written and that recommendation cold drink concession. Fifty cents whole situation, asked, hypothet­ was one of the 121 adopted by the FROM GAULEY BRIDGE TO JAIL is the rate customers are charged ically: “Was that the reason commission. ' It has not, however, for every “period” they spend with Keppeler made such a lukewarm ; By RICHARD SASULY — Federated Press been written (see RECORD last the hostesses, on the dance floor, presentation of the request?” week), though the recommendation A man named Albert Malta once wrote a:story about a hardrock at the concession, or talking, in ■ ••. Though civil service has been was adopted months ego; miner dying of silicosis. The miner had worked on tunnel job at their chairs.; ' The new move toward, getting ' Gauley Bridge, W. Va. If a hostess sits'in her chair, a the job done was- initiated by Com­ Malta’s story was simple, straight and powerful. It touched off a wall flower dutifully , waiting for missioner Robert -Miller,- sitting - on nhsin reaction which left Gauley Bridge as a national symbol of death her customer, the proprietor can 'Bellflower' Moy the commission'temporarily, .at the by greed. A congressional investigation was held; Silicosis was not • make no deductions. June 30 meeting, and it was or­ wiped out but safety measures were improved. The Malta story saved When , asked if this deduction dered that the work be done, by; lives. was- legal, Mr. Silva commented Be Key To Joie an outside agency which should 1- Then Malta wrote a book called The Underground Stream. That was that if this was a “fine," the be especially commissioned for the a. straight story of auto workers and the Black Legion. It helped smoke practice is a definite violation .of . job. • . r .dutlj^tieum^i«a^ibu^uul|ced%bioc>dlnms who-: tried to < terrorize -the men . Section 4384, Revised=J,l5*ws of Qf. WalterBerry 1 "".Thwarted? • Saying that he thinks the tech­ who daifed to; organize Detroit. Hawaii. , (from page 1) While Mrs. M. K. Lee is the pro­ nical ctaff of. the civil service- has The root unions in the automobile industry took the combined brains . wanted to make to this paper. The more than once thwarted the ex­ "and courage’ r>f many people. Maltz was surely one of them. prietor of the Star Ballroom, Paul reporter, upon visiting Oahu Pri­ pressed wishes of the commission, Au, the owner of the property, is son, was told by Deputy Warden THE STORY OF HITLER TERROR her spokesman. Mr. Au, who said by this sort ■ of, maneuver, a com­ William P. Motta tihat an inter­ missioner said: "It’s only anothei* Another book by Maltz was The Cross and the Arrow. There he he was the landlord and assistant view could not be allowed. told the story of Hitler terror and the honor of the underground fighters case of the Igil wagging the dog.” to Mrs. Lee, said he cannot give Earlier interviews with a local who held out against Nazism. any information about his per­ daily, Mettz said; were allowed It cost millions of lives in a great war to defeat fascism. The Cross sonnel policies. because of “previous commit- tacts” in- the- vice racket,' also an the Arrow was one of the weapons in that war. Maltz’s novel was Au Won’t Talk ments" with the daily while Ber­ carried other ’names and tele­ distributed in a special edition for American. GIs. . “We deal' with the girls direct­ ry was still' in custody of the Po- phone numbers. One was that In October of 1947, Maltz was called before the House un-American ly. No information,” he said, as Lce Department; Miottz said Ber­ of the Honolulu Police Depart­ Activities Committee. What he did before the committee was of a piece he hunched over a table in the ry’s telephone call to the RECORD ment; Another was that of the with all he had written. anteroom from where he looked at was unauthorized and must have Federal Bureau of Investigation. Malta was one of ten Hollywood writers and directors who were asked the dance floor. He wore his eye­ occurred when he -made a trip Berry is believed -to have by the committee if they belonged to a union—the Screen Writers’ Guild glasses low over his nose ■ and to the police station. brought the iwne “Bellflower” chewed on a cigar. into .has answers . during question­ —-and to the Communist Party. -Berry was not allowed to make ing sessions with - the police, and; In his writings, Maltz -had defended the right of handrock miners to; “Of course,” he explained, the statements he desired to the it is -'further believed -that aftef breathe clean air and the right of auto workers to organize. Before the “this is like a school. Every- RECORD, and the reporter’s ques­ much difficulty, Bellflower was Committee he defended the right of any citizen to think as he pleases school has its own rules—so have tions. about his connection with located by tan agency of the taw. and to vote in secret. : business houses. And like in Hoy Bellflower ■ remain unasked : The questions as-to Berry’s or The First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution says: "Congress shall schools, the bad ones get pun­ and unanswered. Bellflower’s connection with law make no law .. . abridging the freedom of speech or of the press.” Maltz ished or expelled.” But froth other sources, this agencies with vice "contacts” re­ showed that freedom of speech disappears if people can be bludgeoned His policies were tfiat simple, newspaper learned that the sea- main mysteries, as does ttie rea­ into revealing their most private thoughts. The questions of J. Parnell he commented. . man’s book, in which Berry said son -Berry was carrying Bellflow­ Thomas, later sent to jail for manipulating government payrolls’,'served It was understood that if a , he had written names of “con- er’s book. to pry open the locks on the ballot box. hostess reported late to work for GIVEN A TEAR IN JAIL two nights she does not get her LOOKING BACKWARD And so it happened that on June 23, 1950, Albert Maltz sat in a 75 cents hourly pay for the whole federal district court in Washington to await a year’s-sentence in jail. week. The policy as stated in a (from page 8) He had been cited for contempt of the Thomas committee. The U. S. poster near the restroom, said that take second degree murder into consideration. With some reluctance, Supreme Court had turned aside from the constitutional issues in the if she misses one night, she can the jury returned an" indictment. . case of the Hollywood 10. still get her hourly pay by re­ Montgomery Winn, later to be well-known as an anti-union "lawyer, porting promptly for the .balance was representing, the four defendants. He told Admiral Stirling and the Maltz had gone in a straight line from Gauley Bridge to the courts of the five-night work week. But •world generally; what had gone on in the grand jury session, which was house. He had written and acted for ordinary people who are kicked for the night she is tardy, she does supposed to be secret. When Winn would not reveal how he had found around by greed of wealth and the arrogance of power. His payoff was not get her hourly pay. out, Judge Cristy found him in contempt of court; a stretch in the pen. Recently, sources say, the rules Feeling that “Island lawyers would be afraid to act freely for fear Crazy stuff? Yes. But not entirely new. The attention of the have been changed without the of losing their clients,” the Navy set about getting the best possible talent un-American committee is called to a man who may have escaped their management notifying the hostess­ from the Mainland. .. lists—name of Giordano Bruno. Bruno was badgered by an earlier mob es, and some of them were not Darrow Takes Case for $25,000 of witch-hunters. He was thrown into jail for holding to an unpopular paid the , whole week’s hourly wage" Mrs. Fortescue aimed for the very top. Through friends she secured idea. For seven years he refused to change his ideas. And then he was because they .missed one night. the services of Clarence Darrow. burned at the stake. When the hostesses complained, . Darrow is stall remembered with respect for his briiHanre ° crim- BRUNO’S SUBVERSIVE IDEAS reports say, Mr. Au handed the Inal lawyer, with gratitude for his. defense of the oppressed, Especially in . The. un-American committee may have missed out on Bruno because girls the new: rules which were the field of labor.. Now, old and poor, perhaps not understanding fully all this happened a long time ago. He was-jailed by the infamous In­ retroactive. The new. regulation the issues in the Massie, case, he accepted a fee of $25J)00-and brought quisition, in Italy in 1593. He went .to the stake, still a proud and un-; said that if a hostess is late one a noble career to an anti-climax by representing four racist lynchers. broken man, in 1600. night for work, she must work A trial jury was drawn, six haoles and six of other descents.- six instead of five nights as the Stirling could not imagine the jury voting, except on ractal lines, the And what were Bruno’s subversive ideas, which turned himagainst' previous arrangement said, ,to get white men. for not guilty and the Hawaiians and Orientals .for guilty the reactionaries' of 450 years ago? Simply that the earth turns around the 75 cents an hour -for tha In his eyes: ’’They considered Kahahawai was-a martyr mh,; h, .the sun. It sounds silly but it is true. Bruno—and Copernicus and whole week, excepting the tardy avenged.” ’ ’ - - . . Brahe and Galileo and others who tangled with the Parnell Thomases night.. The hostesses must work Again to quote the race-conscious Admiral: "AH Hawaii now of their day-4>y. speaking the truth, threatened a rigid set of supersti­ on Friday, Saturday and. Sunday waited for the triaJ. lt was the most sensational event that tious beliefs which controlled men’s minds. - and two other nights of the week. happened in the Islands. Four white people, were mi trial Mr By speaking the truth, Maltz has threatened the defense of cor­ If they miss , one of the weekend murder of a Hawaiian. It hardly seemed possible.” porate profit Bruno’s idea won out in the end. So will Maltz’s. nights, they won’t get their 75- (To Be Continued) . Page Six HONOLULU RECORD July 20, 1950 Garcia May Not Return, Agent Says; JACL is say Contest Has $200 In Prizes; Predicts Union of Salinas Workers Open To Allcomers Max M. .Garcia, recruiter of la­ sides, the Mexicans are all aliens. bor here for the truck farms of You can’t talk to them about un­ An essay conteston the. theme, Salinas, Cal., will not return next ions?’ “Blueprint for TombrroWj^/ will be week, says Joe Antenorcruz, his Antenorcruz does not feel the held in conjunction witifthe 11th , representative here, and plans for recruiting enterprise was anti- biennial JACL National Conven- any return in the near future are labor, or anti-union and he says, : tion, to be held in Chicago on suspended. “I told them if they wanted to Sept. 28-Oct. 2, 1950. “The company lost $150,006,” organize a unions to go ahead, “It will be an opportunity for WHOSE BABY IS THE VOLLEYBALL says Mr. Antenorcruz, “and I but use some sense about it. They’ll all Americans to write what they COURT AT KUHIO BEACH? don’t know whether Garcia will have a union there if you give believe is the future of the Jap- come back or not.” them time. I-know, because some anese-Americans in this country, Last Saturday afternoon we took a gander down to Kuhio Beach at The recruiting operation here of them have been * ILWU men . and what is, or should be his dis­ the request of some of the volleyball enthusiasts who had recently lost Was' not . successful, Antenorcruz and I’ll bet that inside a year or tinctive role as a citizen,” stated the privilege of playing the game because of the alleged complaints of told the RECORD, "because we, two .they’ll have a union there.” Mr. James Nishimura, chairman some very vocal and cantankerous people. 'It seems that some sun-loving made the mistake of not exam­ of the essay committee, habitues of the beach had the misfortune of having the volleyball give Another “mistake” on the part them a few brushings—and they were peeved. Because these cranks ining the men carefully before we of the recruiters, Antenorcruz ad­ Rules For Contest signed them up to. go.” The contest is open to everyone, somehow lost their memories of a happy childhood, they took it out on mits, was in writing the contract a number of young people who have made Kuhio Beach a little volleyball Some of those signed are satis­ so that the wage of 80 cents per regardless pi age, sex, race or re­ fied, and some have sent for their . hour was mentioned, though in a ligious beliefs, residing in the con­ center. families to come to California to way, that had no legal significance. tinental United States and its We met with Willard “Honey” Kalima, Samson Kahalewai, Charlie live with them. The wages' were higher when the possessions, except the employes of Brown and quite a delegation, who gave us a resume of the volleyball o One-Fourth Unsatisfied workers did certain types of work, the JACL, members of. the Na­ situation at ol’. Kuhio Beach? It seems that originally, informal groups “Only about 50 out of 200 were and as low as 75 cents when they tional Board, National Committee have, of their own initiative, built their own posts and set lip nets on a dissatisfied,” he said, “and they did less exacting labor. ’ and members of their immediate makeshift level sand court. were merchant marines and men “Some places were better than families, and members , of the Es­ A few years back, when the city and county built a public restroom. *'who didn’t want to work.” others,” he said.' “I made a trip say Contest Jcommittee. It is not at Kuhio, a portion of the beach was paved and what was a little waste (Some who were signing to go there to see for myself. But you necessary to be a member of the space, approximately 21 by 25 feet, was converted by the devotees of to California told the RECORD know those 15 who paid their way JACL in order to enter. volleyball, into a spot in constant use day in and day out. A friend'~of_ at the time they knew the labor —those who signed with the Terri­ Two hundred dollars in savings the boys, donated pipe so that semi-permanent posts were erected and’an recruiters held the citizenship torial service? Their place was bonds will be awarded to the three* amateur welder gave his time and labor to- weld the pipes into position. papers of applicants, but they one of the worst.” prize-winning essays: First prize, Up to a few weeks ago, these players had enjoyed this setup. felt safe .because they had sea­ $100 bond; second, $50 bond; third, However, complaints to the parks board by the aforementioned touchy E- Leigh Stevens, director of the individuals had. suddenly forced the Department of Parks and Rec­ men's passports and would have Territorial Employment Service, $25 bond. In addition, plaques no trouble proving their citizen­ said he heard only two weeks ago will be awarded the three winners. reation to bring a sudden halt to the use of the court. As one of ship—and escaping any undue from 'tlie owner of the asparagus Sept. 15 Is Deadline the fellows put it: “We got here one morning tp play. We don’t leverage employers might try to farm who hired 15 men through All entries must be typewritten see no posts. Somebody had burned the posts off. So we no can play. use upon them.) his agency before the Garcia re­ on 8‘Axil-inch white paper, on The only thing we know is that some big shot went squawks, and These were the men who “made cruiting got under way here. ” one side, double-spaced with one- we no can play.” . '■ trouble,”’ says Antenorcruz, and “They are reported satisfied and inch margin. Each entry should At the meeting we attended, Honey Kalima was elected by the caused an investigation by the working at 90 cents an hour,” said have marked clearly name, address boys present to represent them in. seeing some officials to present them California Department of Labor. Mr. Stevens. “That employer, and location on the first page of ■with a.solution to their problem. They offered to provide nets to prevent Making “trouble,” it turned out, wanted to hire a few more—he the essay. The essays must not the ball from going out of hounds so that beach sitters may not be was the effort-on- the part of at hit by the ball and also-take the initiative of policing the spot, against has just a small place—but we exceed 2,500 words in length. vandals, and pests. ’-.". least, one worker, Antenorcruz told him we couldn’t accept his All entries must be in the hands says, to organize a union. This, week Honey Kalima took, the beef to. the Administrator of order. We told him to place it of the committee'- by midnight, Recreation, Ted Nobriga.- Nobriga was very sympathetic'and offered ; “But wasn’t that his legal with the California Department of Sept. 15, 1950. The contestants right?”, Garcia’s agent’ was asked. Labor.” should mail their 'essays to: JACL , several suggestions to be incorporated into a pian that there may. be “Ah, but he was a fool about Essay Contest, Chicago Publish­ no further complaints in case permission, is granted for its use. . it,” says the former recruiter. “He ing Corp., 2611 Indiana Ave., Chi-i The ideas of Ted Nobriga and the boys may be summed up like this: talked to this .fellow he thought Indians To Get $30 cago 16, Illinois.' Winners will bo Temporary posts and protective nets to be erected to prevent the was a Mexican—-turned out to be announced and .awards made. at ball from, going out of'bounds; .. L . . - The women’s rest rooms to be moved over to where-the men’s rest a haOle—but, he was. .foolishto. MiIIiam C*aIam' IhwL the Midwest District Public Forum talk to' him -right • at work. Be- million Tor Stolen Lana oct. 2, at the convention. Prize­ room is now located; .- . . . . . - .., _ r.... Certain amount of volunteer policing:-to he dmte'by tfie 'bbys’mem-* WASHINGTON ’(FP)—The Ute winning essays will become the property of the National JACL. selves to prevent rowdyism and-tocurtail juvenile delinquency. Billy Rose Definition Indians have 30 million dollars Seems like this week there will be a meeting; of the minds. What ' coming to them under terms of a seemed like a hopeless case in losing their voheybah court turned out U. S. claims court; decision July to mean a hopeful waiting while: the Recreation Commission- looks over* Of Free Enterprise 13, but they won’t be able to spend For Republicans Only .the situation to possibly return the rights to the youngsters. As an it. . organized group they have suddenly become very vocal. .We hope the SAN" DIEGO, .Calif.-(FP)-When The award is to compensate the At Cleveland, Ohio, a church boys succeed. -. Billy Rose, ‘Broadway producer, Indians for vast tracts of land in club had an auction in which took the. job as consulting director* Colorado and Utah which have sealed gifts from various "celeb­ THE PHILIP KIM-MARIO TRIGO FIGHT of the 1953 California World Prog­ been taken away from them since rities” were auctioned off to the The smart boys oir^ethel Street were wagering that Trigo would ress Exposition (his wages: one 1890, .some of it given to home­ highest bidder. For $16 one lady go the distance; that Trigo would last four founds; that there would pound of his favorite- tobacco), steaders. The 6 million acres in­ bought a chance to get an auto­ be no knockout; that there would be no more than two knockdowns. he said he was attracted by the cludes the sites of oil wells, ore- graphed picture of Senator Taft, Looks like the Reno boys had-a field day for not only did Mario Trigq fair’s theme—dramatizing th a free bearing lands and rich farming who is running for re-election. enterprise system. win the fight but he did it decisively. areas. • ■ The lady was offered her money Kim left his left hook somewhere between here-and Waikiki and ■ But when Rose came here to The sum awarded, according to back. She took it.—From Capital was using his most ineffective punch, a right lunge to the air. Triga begin giving his advice at a lunch­ Attorney General J. Howard Mc­ Comment, weekly bulletin of the fought lefty..most-of the way and-confused the Wildcat, no less, with, eon attended by hundreds of Grath, will be available for expen­ Democratic National Committee. fast exchanges and then rapidly moving "out of range. While Kim was. civic and business leaders, there diture under government super­ the aggressor, he looked bad, looking for Trigo. was some noticeable squirming as vision and congressional authori­ Retail book sales the first four ' There was talk last night of a rematch. The partisan crowd will he remarked: zation for education, health and months of 1950 were 2 per cent . most likely go for another match as the local ringworms were “Free enterprise is a fine theme, housing. • under the 1949 level. but let us be careful about what rather disappointed in Kim’s showing. Augie Curtis should make we mean by free enterprise.. If a little moola in a rematch if Trigo can he persuaded to stay a! it’s the National Association of little while longer. Trigo shouldn’t need too much persuading. All Manufacturers’ brand, you “ can Salinas Peonage Exposed To Migrants he needs is a little more lettuce in his salad. count me out. This may be too Steve Takano and Henry “Bulldog’ Lee fought a good semi-windup direct for your stomachs,’ but it with Takano gaining the duke. Lee a toughie, possesses absolutely nd is my opinion. ■ California Union defense. His style is to take a punch, two punches, or three or four “Such a fair as is planned for From Hawaii By punches hoping to land a haymaker. We can’t see a long fighting, San Diego is not possible without SAN FRANCISCO-(FP)-Inter­ In English and Tagalog, one of career for Lee for. with his style goes a lot of pounding on his own head. labor. Labor is the quarterback vention of California. unionists the Filipino native languages, the We enjoyed Philip Choo’s peanuts more than the fights last might. that is calling the signals in this succeeded in freeing from a vir- leaflets told the imported work- The peanuts we Yate as grade A, the fights grade B, country today, and these signals tual peonage deal nearly 400 Fili­ ers that prevailing farm wages SPORTS TID-BITS FROM HERE AND THERE will set the pattern for living pino farm workers imported from were about $1 an hour, advised There seems to be much ado about the Arthur Godfrey Ukulele from this time on. This will be Hawaii to work in the lettuce them what to pay for board, what Contest sponsored by KGMB, a local ice cream concern, and a music done from national levels down to fields around Salinas. kind of housing to insist on, and store. . We’ve attended several contests on past Saturdays. Last.week’s local union levels.” As a result the ..Filipino work­ offered to help get these conditions selection of winners, ten in the preliminaries, was marred by the He urged that" a House of Labor ers, who had been under contract if that should be necessary. judges leaving out a virtuoso, a youngster by the name of -Robert Ota be constructed among the major to work two years at substandard After they reported for work at who played as his number a difficult number called “Canadian Ca­ fair buildings. wages, now have the choice of Salinas, the Filipinos found they pers.” The majority of the crowd there figured that young Ota at returning to Hawaii expense-free were to be paid only 75 cents an least rated in the qualifying ten. or to stay and negotiate for higher hour and that the housing was Being rather’ inquisitive about the judges we called up the - Frank-ly Speaking wages and, better conditions. :. bad. They became even more dis­ Musicians’ Association an< inquired how the judges were selected. (from page 8) Although thousands of Califor-. turbed when the labor recruiter The information we got was that the Association suggested some that , the church, which should be nia farm workers are unemployed, took away their birth certificates . names and then KGMB asked the judges to serve.'From the group a bulwark: against, evil, is for the the Salinas Valley Growers Asso­ amd naturalization papers and re­ Randy Oness, Alfred Apaka, Napua Stevens, Fritzl McGuigan, -Bob most part, acting as a handmaid­ ciation sent an' agent* to Hawaii fused to return them: McQuesten, Elmer Lee, and two staff Members from .KGMB were en. to rotmd up cheap labor. The They protested: and finally won selected. Anyway, we will he partisan ahd say that the judges made/ There is a strong link between 2-year' agreements : signed' by the a hearing before a state labor a blunder in leaving out Ota. A great number of, fans who heard democracy and Christianity; our Filipinos called for wages of 80 commissioner at which the agree­ -the contestants at Waikiki and over the radio figured, him a quali­ homeland advertises itself as a cents an hour and free housing. ment was worked- out with the fier...' ■ ’ ' : ~~ ~ ~' prime example of both when As the Hawaiian workers stepped growers. Besides getting a choice actually we have little of either. off the SS- Gen. Gordon here en of returning home or negotiating We see where Althea Gibson won over Mela Ramirez, women’s How.lang must we be.a land of route to Salinas, thqy were handed for higher wages, the Filipino tonints champion nf Mexico; in a first round tennis match in the Na-> hypocrites on both the 'social and, leaflets issued by Local' 7, Food workers were assured the state tional Clay Court championship now being- held In’ Chicago. What in­ religious fronts? How lopg-will we Tobacco .Agricultural & Allied: will- inspect the housing accom­ terested us is the fact that the lily-white Lawn Tennis.Association must sit idly by and watch the cruci­ Workers (unaffiljated), most of modations and the return of their fixion of both political liberals and whose members are Filipinos em­ certificates and ’papers was or­ have given’in to public pressure, for Althea Gibson is a Negro from the principles of Jesus Christ? ; ployed in the asparagus fields. dered. ' Florida. July 20, 1950 HONOLULU RECORD Page Seven Kekaha Needs "Superman" On Job; Company Force J To Dr. Shoemaker Brings Bank of Hawaii Demands 10 Meri Do Work of 20 Pay As Union Fights Good, But Embarrassing Publicity Longshoreman's Case \ (from page 1) with the company. They have While Dr. James H. Shoemaker considerable publicity, when the die the tremendous job of wheel-- repeatedly offered to “go back to (from page 1) has popularized the Bank of Ha­ economic, conditions here were (-tagxthosri motorized Goliaths and work and then discuss this mat- task that he fell. But no one saw waii through his public appli­ skidding downhill rapidly, with %rank nn the trailer hitch for tef” if the compariy would replace him fall. Later, when Kaanehe ances, speeches and published re­ unemployment mounting by the . eight—hours without caving in. the 10 men who were removed. found him, .he had one shoe off port of the critical economic sit­ day. Dr. Shoemaker was made Three men so far have been in­ The men’s proposal to the com­ and was unable to talk coherently uation of the Territory, the bank’s a vice president of the bank and jured by this inhuman ‘‘effi­ pany was as follows: "We are or explain what had happened to executives are unhappy at the kind his work included research and ciency” measure. One man was willing to go back to work provid­ him of popularity the former Univer­ a survey to help improve the hospitalized. ing all .those 10 men are put back Even in the hospital he was in a sity of Hawaii professor has critical situation. As one driver stated when ques- . on their regular shifts. If nd set­ semi-coma for weeks and unable brought to the financial institu­ Not only the general public, but tioned by the RECORD: ‘’Any­ tlement is reached between the to tell how he fell, and an agent tion, reliable reports say. people in the financial and busi­ thing the plantation wants to try, two parties we will ask the com­ of the Home Insurance Co., which The economist from the uni­ ness fields waited for the outcome we try; that’s our job. This deal pany for a stop-work meeting.” covers Matson employes,- investi­ versity was employed" by the of Dr. Shoemaker’s survey anr*. they got now, with one man work­ R. C. Williamson stated for gated the case and reported that bank several months ago with the steps the Bank of Hawaii ing right straight through eight the company, in effect: “We will he was not entitled to compensa­ would take to liven up the econ­ hours with no break . . . we can’t .have nothing to do with this tion. omy in following his suggestions. do it. It’s too tough. They figure proposal. If you are willing to Union Steps In Dr. Shoemaker, began informing men- work, just like machines.” return-to’work on our terms we It was at this point that Maluo Ad Reveals Bias the public, shortly after he took then can bargain.” came out of his coma and told his the job, that Hawaii was imports- Another driver, Antonio-Wong; • /ing more than exporting,-and new testified: “I worked in that de­ There is no apparent concern story. The union stepped in, in­ vestigated the case, and filed a > industries were needed to balance partment four years, tried hard on the part of the company for this unhealthy ratio. His straight and liked my work, but I was one the 24-hour supply of cut cane claim on behalf of Maluo. The hearing .was delayed for months talk made some people feel that of those changed to another de­ souring in trailers outside the mill. the big interests were going to partment.” When asked “What The 46 trailers Contain an esti­ because the Workmen’s Compensa­ National Groups tion Board desires the claimant be tackle the economic crisis. . department and what kind of a mated $35,000 to $38,000 worth of (from page 1) When the bank’s vice presi­ ■job?” Mr. Wong didn’t know. cane which at the outside can be present if possible, and Maluo was cants are • advised to report is expected to; last not more than still very sick. dent began talking in this man- “They didn’t , tell me that,” he - At the hearing last week, Doug­ Room 402,- 198 S. Hotel St., the ad­ ner the people who were com­ said. “They just told me' that seven or eight ’days, and this dress of the Encyclopedia Britanni-. plaining about the tight credit temporarily, I was assigned as kind Wednesday morning is the sixth of las ruled that, though the heart x ca and Harry J. Amrock, the com­ that limited number. trouble and high .blood pressure situation at the local banks vis­ of a handyman in the mill and may have contributed to Maluo’s pany manager here. ited him, seeking loans, reliable that I would be called when they In addition, it appears rather Asked if the discriminatory hir­ sources say. - The potential bor­ strange that a large company such condition, the company was re­ needed me.” sponsible for the injury’ which had ing policy stated in the ad repre­ rowers were sent to the bank’s Pace Physical Impossibility as Kekaha plantation would per­ sents the policy of the company executives, to be turned down mit 700 of their personnel to be occurred. When Maluo is finally Mr. Wong- went on to say: out from medical care, the Work­ on the Mainland, Amrock had no with discouraging stories about “When one of the night shift'boys deprived of employment and, of statement to make. the bad financial picture. course, subsequent income as a men’s Compensation Board will folded up after five hours of steady detexmine whether or not Maluo His former employes have plenty All this .turned out to be bad work with no rest, they, called me result of the very questionable in­ publicity for the bank. crease in efficiency and produc­ has suffered any permanent in­ of statements, though. to fill in and finish the job. They jury and if so, to what extent. Said one: “When I was there The bank officials have been told me to go in arid drive for the tivity to be obtained by laying off very unhappy about’the whole de­ 10 department members and, at­ he used to hire' any nationality. nex^ two shifts, 16 hours straight. They specialized in Chinese, velopment, according to- reliable I refuseS, but I : did have to work tempting to “speed-up” the re­ sources, and theirmood has caused maining crew. ' U. of H. Prof. Won^ though, because they were try­ 10% hours before I got: relieved.” ing to sell the encyclopedia, to : talk on Merchant St. that Dr. .. After trying for five days to Balloting Democratic Chinese families. What’s' the Shoemaker might leave the vice maintain the;pace set by the plan­ R. C. Williamson, when ques­ Deny He Was Informer matter with Amrock? Is he on­ presidency of. the Bank of Hawaii. tation, the men of Kekaha stated: tioned by the RECORD as to pos­ ly selling to haole, Japanese and ’ “We tried tokeep up the pace but sible action by the company Against Alien Seaman non-union families?”; Not In Matson's Bed, it is a physical impossibility.” toward alleviating the situation, - Said a woman who. worked for The rrink and: file spokesmen replied: “We have absolutely no (from page 1) Amrock: “I found, him a racist Pacific transport Lines to whom the RECORD talked comment to make at this time. We Lines ship here • after a Chinese bigot. He was-anti-laboxkand anti­ went on to say: “The,Honolulu will’, refrain from commitments .passenger had informed customs Negro, and if you’re prejudiced daily papers have been’ quoting until the picture clarifies.” Mean­ offiaiaJs here that he had spoken against: one - race, ■.you’re.^really;" JExecutiveCoppel -Says Kekaha,.management-ascstating-- ing, it is. pr,burned, -that.noicor-;, • favnrahly -of the ‘n6W“gbVeiftirneni£' "prejtiarded "against" any’race'Txut that we walked out with no no­ rective' step’s-will be taken at all of China.. your own.” (from page -1) tice. That’s not true. ’ Wc tried for the present. . . Whs Prof.-Informer? Amrock once fired a salesman'• ness circies that the--Pacific to talk to the manager on Mon­ It also appears that the planta­ Seeking the identity of-the in­ on the grounds that he was a Transport Lines, Inc.; has a tie- . day but he said' they had; an­ tion prefers to lose the $35,000 or former, the RECORD called Prof­ “communist,” a former employe in with Matson has no basis in other meeting and he couldn’t $38,000 dollars rather than con­ essor Kenneth Ch’en of the Uni- told the RECORD, because he at­ . fact, Mr. Coppel explained.. 'A see us; so we came back Tues­ cede a point. versnty of Hawaii. CSi’erx first said tended the Reinecke hearings. This unfounded report became day. Then he talked .to us but Contrary to intimations from such infaraiiatton should be ob­ No Bed of Roses current after a-iocal daily- report­ he said the company would: take extremely partisan sources, the tained from the immigration There are also some’ hidden ed that Walter F. Dillingham is no action to replace any of the initial walkout action and the authorities. ' - catches in the company’s ad, for­ one of the founders of the. ship­ men and make the job easier subsequent vote to stay out were “Do you deny that you are mer salesmen say, if the new jobs ping. company. Mr. Coppel said because they were conducting, a inaugurated entirely by the rank the man who gave information offered are like those they held this was “bum dope.” ‘ : series of production tests tin- the and file.. This reporter was against Bradshaw?” he was there in the past. The “good- pay1’ “Inter-Island' Steam. Navigation trucking department and, sec­ present during Tuesday’s vot­ asked. has been strictly on a commission Co. and Dillingham don’t have a; ondly because the company felt ing and at the meeting held the “I have nothing to say,” Ch’en basis and the hours of work de­ cent in our company,” Mr. Coppel that the work was. no. more- previous evening for the pur­ replied. pend on the individual, veterans said. "Fagan’s (Paul, Sr.) is the than one man could handle pose of • explaining .the issue Customs officials are believed to say. Likewise, salesmen frequent­ only island capital in the firm.” easily. So we went .back to tell thoroughly to all rank and file have searched Bradshaw's quarters ly work six days a week, because According to a reliable source, the men and then we tried again members. Selection of the vot­ on ithe ship and confiscated union Sunday is- one day they’re most .Mr. Fagan; was a big-, shareholder until Friday to work the new ing committee and the processes literature, a .book, The Big Strike likely to find buyers at home. in Matson and .until recently; a system. of balloting were both conducted by Mike Quin, and a "manuscript “You get slowed down by the member of the board, of directors. “On Friday, the drivers felt they in the true democratic tradition Which Bradshaw is writing as an policy they have of not letting Because of his connection with the couldn’t take it any longer so they of America. expose, of U. S. business interests - beginners sell the senior encyclo- . new company, he has sold his hold­ walked out. And did you know The grievance was first ex­ in Panama. pedia,” one former salesman ings in Matson. that; one man" David Kaupio, had plained carefully in English, Fil­ On this evidence, an immigra- ’ said. “You’re supposed to begin When the firm was first or­ to turn in at the hospital on the ipino and Japanese and the bal­ tion official told the^RECORD, on the junior encyclopedia, but_ ganized Mr. Dillingham, invested orders of Dr. Brennecke, because lots were clearly marked in all Bradshaw was held on suspicion if you get a customer who wants some capital but it was a small of strain and injury, and that two three languages. During voting, of being “an alien whose entry a senior edition, you have to give amount,. Mr. Coppel said; About other men were compelled to stay the ballots were marked in private might be prejudicial to the best ' the sale to someone else.” three years ago the firm'bought home for two or three days and by the individuals voting and in­ interests of the U. S.” One veteran salesman, who has back the Dillingham stock when rest?” serted in a sealed ballot box, with Under ■ the deportation order, hawked many products about the the Dillingham interests maHe a Offered To Go -Back the entire voting committee pres­ the union has been informed, homes of Honolulu, said: “I never' deal to supply terminal faculties Following the Kekaha protest ent. The ballots were later count­ Bradshaw will be removed from worked for them. After J heard Ao to the Matson Navigation Co.-R walkout there have been some 14 ed in the presence of the mem­ Honolulu to San Francisco within that business about the j4u—ni‘o--r- -a-n- dJ The report that the Dillinghams attempts on 'the part of the Local bership and with this reporter 10 days,- after- which-he will~be - senior sets, T wouldn’t"try" it. It are^tlte tie-in’of the'Pacific Trans­ members to reach an agreement also present. The local politicians returned .to Panama. Wally Ho, seemed like cheating people in a port Llaoajsiih Matson, as told in accuse each other of stuffing, the MCS- port agent here, said that way, because it would^pUt you out a RECORD..story last week, is ballot boxes, but under the cir­ so far as he knows, the union trying to sell the junior when you not true, Mr. Coppel said. cumstances described above it has not decided on its next step know the senior set is the better “We’re not in bed with Matson,” Police Lose Again would be, little short of impossible in behalf of Bradshaw. buy.” was the way Mr. Coppel put it.' for any Kekaha employe to accom­ plish such action. On A & B Charge Star-Bulletin Story Erroneous ‘ The Honolulu Star-Bulletin in (from page 1) its July 18 edition states: “In most Classified Directory Symonds,, representing the defend­ instances, the ILWU has attempt­ ant, Hurley said this , act had been ed to deny responsibility for strike performed! with no ’provocation action, but it is obvious that these ori his part. : strikes have been - inspired- and AUTO TOP SHOP FLOOR FINISHERS REFRIGERATION Cabradilla, however, testified directed by ILWU, officials.” that the officer had pushed him The - foregoing statement is DE LUXE Auto TOP' Shop. Spe­ M. TAKAYAMA. Specialize in-ftoor 24 HOUR refrig, service. Commas, and., struck him prior to the patently a lie." The one point that cializingin tops, seal; covers, and . sanding, refinishlng. Ph. 79554. cial,. domestic. Ph.. 975845. Gv H. football tackle, and he said he is-most singularly outstanding in, general auto , upholstery. 1177 Refrig. Serv. & General Repair. had received a, black eye from ■ the Kekaha, walkout is -that even Kapiolani Blvd. Fix. 53052. SAND blasting, steam cleaning, the blow. IbcaLJLWU officers did not know welding and painting. -Ph. 8N69. LtlMBjER Judge Akou acquitted, Cataradii-' of the action until’ -it had been CONTRACTORS la, Saying that the policeman ex-- completed. Kekaha plantation of­ FUNERAL PARLORS ■ceeded Ibis authority by entering ficials have verified the fact that GEORGE Shima, Gen. Oont^ De­ USED lumber and Anny houses at the poolroom for (further talk with no ILWU official has so far taken sign, New Bldgs. & Repair. Hallow BORTHWICK Funeral Parlors. bargain prices, Danes' Lumber file man. part in- the attempted negotiations. Tile. Ph. 847611 for free estimate. Ph. 69158. Yard. Ph. 82704 or 844295. HONOLULU RECORD Nbo'ivfcSlffE Ftank-iy Speaking Koji Ariyoshi . . . Editor w Mere. By FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS Published every Thursday by EVEN LIBERALISM HONOLULU RECORD PUBLISHING CO., LTD. IS DANGEROUS 811 Sheridan Street, Honolulu 14, T. H. ; Since the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, we have walked, backward to the point where it is Phone 96445 11 now dangerous for a man in politics to have ever >9 uttered a liberal thought; Tn .recent-weeks, two • senators have lost-out . in primary elections be­ HAWAIIAN AND TPA cause they had been tinted with the liberal brush. I refer to Claude Pepper of Florida; defeated Of the many new business ventures in . " after a long career in Washington, who had -been the Territory, perhaps the one that.is friendly to organized labor and civil rights, and giving the Big Five and their, subsidiaries 'toDr, Frank Graham, ______the toughest kind of competition is Trans­ distinguished president of ■the University of North ’ pacific Airlines, Ltd. ' . Carolina and one of the This week, Hawaiian Airlines, Ltd., until nation’s foremost liberals, June 1949, the only scheduled .air passen- who had been appointed, . ger line in the Territory under the Civil to the senate. , No honest-man could > Aeronautics Board, was forced- to adopt ever accuse Pepper: or the family excursion fares, originated in Graham of being Com­ the Territory by TPA , which has been giv­ munists. But they were ing this service tb the people since May 3. not up against honest men in the recent pri­ • The Family Excursion Plan allows one- mary elections. They were half fare privileges for members of a family faced with an opposition while the head of the family pays full fare, master-minded and fi­ nanced by Big Business MR. DAVIS if travel is on Tuesday, Wednesday or which made full use of the Red hysteria to liqui- Thursday. . date two liberals whose, opposition to the con­ Whenuthc TPA applied to the Civil gressional reactionaries often proved^embarrassing. Aeronautics Board for permission to insti­ Accusation Becomes tute the family excursion fares, the Hawai­ A Simple Matter ian Airlines registered strong' opposition, - Since few people know what communism is asking the board not to grant TPA its re­ anyway, it becomes, a simple matter to accuse Looking Backward those you don’t like of communism. - In the South, quest. The fight went on and TPA won. speaking out for a better break for Negroes is • In the' complaint filed by Hawaiian communism. Defending the rights of labor unions Airlines to-stop the introduction of family ... is communism Although both Pepper and Gra­ THE NAVY AND THE MASSIE CASE ham had long records of strong opposition to the excursion faxes into Hawaii, the largest Communists, it availed them nothing. Both were and the oldest airline company in the Ter­ VIII. charged- with being “followers of the party line” ritory had this to say in conclusion: THE NAVY LOOKS AT JUSTICE and the charges stuck. . .’ such a plan is not for the best I foresaw, back-in 1948, that the. time would interests -of air transportation and the What was the reaction of Rear- Admiral Yates Stirling, representa­ soon come when - the anti-Communist liberal tive of the United States Navy in Hawaii, to ithe killing of Joe Kaha- would get the. same treatment 'as the. avowed people of the islands.” hawai? Communist. The occasion was the contest, be- ■ We have learned from good authority Stirling heard the news while he was on his way to see Governor tween Paul Douglas^ and incumbent C. Wayland - that air-passenger traffic for TPA had Lawrence M. Judd about speeding the retrial of the'five accused rapists, Brooks of Illinois, - Douglas; * a - university- pro- - doubled after the plan had been in effect . one of whom was Kahahawai, Stirling found Judid “ghastly white and • fessor, had once gone,to bat strongly .for social - • shaking with-emotion.” -reform and had paid a visit to Russia'15 or 20 for 45 days; - More and more local families : y&rs ago.- are taking advantage of the special-rates.. . : “That’s, the' result of encouraging a disregard of our laws,” Judd Although Douglas had a distinguished war blared at She Admiral.. „ ’ Such competition as TPA if offering ‘ . record as a marine; - was. closely . allied with the The'Admiral believes he smiled. ‘Tve been expecting something . -Catholic church; was bitterly and loudly Hawaiian Airlines does the people here ' of . the kind. You would insist upon letting these criminals loose . Soviet and had even advocated use of the A-bomb tremendous good. But practically no firm _ instead of keeping them locked up .for their own security.” on Moscow, he was smeared .throughout the cam- ? - is in a position to buck the Big Five es­ Then he said he had come to see* about the trial of the four re­ paign as a Communist. He managed, to pull: ' maining men. through to victory- only because the Red-hysteria; tablishments all the way. TPA thus far had not reached its. present proportions and he ' has demonstrated that it has the guts, No Aloha Between Governor and Admiral had strong labor support in Chicago. It was easy imagination and business know-how. to foresee the time was virtually at hand when it “They (Massie, his mother-in-law and the two navy men) have would be politically dangerous, to ;beknown ;as ■ It has shown up Hawaiian Airlines and killed one of my people,” Judd exclaimed (or the Admiral says he did), a liberal, even-though you had been a featured the Big Five brains behind it. “I’ll bring these murderers to trial immediately. Tm not interested in soloist with the anticommunist chorus. ■ The passenger records since May 3 of the. ^la Moana case.” Stirling turned and left. “From now on there could be: no friend­ Advocated More Democracy this year show that island people travel on ship between the Governor and me.” — And so today we find Pepper and Graham listed, weekdays. The Hawaiian Airlines, has been He went to the district attorney’s office, where Mrs. Fortescue, . in the growing casualty list of the fanatical anti- ; forced to eat its own words; for it said peo­ Massie and Lord were being questioned. Lord wore handcuffs. Stirling Red crusade. They were killed at the polls as ■ Communists for advocating more democracy than was enraged. - a ple can visit friends and relatives on the the economic dictators of our nation- are willing various islands “only over the weekends.” “Take off those irons!” the uniformed Admiral demanded. to give. . What’s more, they had the. opposition The TPA competition has eaten con­ It was done without hesitation. of many white church leaders. Stirling later wrote: “I stood for a moment at Mrs. Fortescue’s The Southern church, founded on a .religion siderably into the^profits of Hawaiian Air­ side and put an arm around her. MJy" heart went out to this brave setting forth the brotherhood of all men, is too -■ lines, which practically exercised air pas­ mother. Mine was.a gesture of sympathy. I had daughters of my often the cornerstone of .white supremacy. To ' senger rponopoly until June 1949. The own. She understood, and-I saw a tear travel down -her pallid cheek; ;; Understand this way of thinking, consider cer­ fight put up by TPA to remain in the air­ then she looked up and smiled,'and I read in her strong-face-that tain statements recently ’made during . an inter--, ' she was undefeated and would fight for justice to the end.” view, by Dr. Robert G. Lee 'of Memphis, president lines business is an old story; to-islanders. If Mr. Stirling hadn’t-been an admiral,-he could have written of the-Southern Baptist Convention;; one of-Dixie’s TPA started off by carrying passengers on soap opera. most powerful organizations. . chartered planes, charging the same rates Cristy Bends To Admiral’s Wishes Asked' if he thought the Dixiecrat movement as Hawaiian Airlines. Y is un-Christian, Dr.' Lee -not only gave it a clean Going next to Judge Albert M. Cristy, the Admiral “demanded bill of. health; but proudly; announced his' per- Then Hawaiian Airlines slapped an in­ that the four accused people be given over to the custody of the-Navy, . sonal friendship for Gov. Strom Thurmond of junction on TPA in Septemfifer 1947,2jthus insisting they were in danger of mob violence, for I had no confidence South Carolina, saying: ‘Tve never met. a finer curtailing the latter’s business considerably; in the police to protect them.” ------■---- - Christian gentleman than. Gov. Thurmond.” . A few months later, in February 1948, Ha­ Judge Cristy turned over the four in custody of Captain Ward No Conflict Between . ' waiian Airlines raised the passenger rates. Wortman, Massie’s superior. Christianity and Jimcrow Now, writes Stirling, he would have to do some fast working and Without a competitor to speak of, it did thinking if the four people were not to be confined: in “a disgusting Tn case you have forgotten, this “fine Christian very well. To further increase its profits, gentleman” ran low President on the Dixiecrat and. revolting: Hawaiian prison." ticket in 1948, the ticket based on white supremacy, about this time, Inter-Island Navigation “The Navy, naturally was concerned. A sentence which would\ and opposition to, equal rights for minorities. Co., Hawaiian Airlines’ parent corporation, send these people to a Hawaiian prison where they would live at \, The-Baptist leader not ’-.only said lie could - cut out its surface passenger service be­ hard labor -with Orientals and other dark-skinned criminals, was - ■^see no conflict between Christianity and jimcrow, tween the islands. abhorrent even to contemplate. It must not happen.” but stated that Negroes should be concerned . Had Mrs. Fortescue not been involved, the three sailors most likely about “liquor drinking and Communist ideas”.in­ TPA kept fighting for federal author­ would have been turned over to the Navy for courtmartial—and ac­ stead' of segregation and: discrimination. ization to carry passengers on scheduled quittal. But with her in the-picture, the case must ‘go to the civil This attitude of one of the mast influential flights arid this, permission came in June -courts.-;'...... Dixie ministers cannot help being reflected among: the'followers. - Instead of being : a force: for good,, v 1949. To the added chagrin of its com­ Grand Jury Reluctantly Returns An Indictment the church in this-way-gives powerful support to < petitor, TPA flew passengers on its. old At first Admiral Stirling was hopeful that- the grand jury would - reaction and hate. It makes a-mockery of Christ. rates..- ■ balk at indicting the killers. _ As it was phrased by the Rev. Claude Williams, - About three weeks later, Hawaiian Air­ ‘‘The grand jury, "composed of many of the white race, showed fighting head of the People’s -Institute of Applied reluctance to bring In a true bill. -Their first report on the Religion: . - lines brought down its passenger rates to , “Instead of a religion of Christ, today we have the former leveL It was forced to do so, charge of first degree murder was twelve to nine for no true bill.” - One of the twelve was Frederick D. Lowrey, newly appointed a religion about Christ.” ~ just as it was forced to adopt the family police commissioner. > Handmaiden of Evil . ' . - \ excursion plan this week. Judge Cristy, a deeply religious , man, was angered that the jury ‘It is not surprising that reaction is strengthen­ Hawaii needs more competition of this should, wish to whitewash .an obvious crime. He charged the jury to' ’ ing-its grip on'our nation. But it is disappointing . nature and TPA is setting an example. : (more on page 5) (more on page 6) .