Witch Hunter Says Loyalty Victim Is Scapegoat HOW0rLU*R€CORD The Newspaper Hawaii Needi Vol. 4, No. 32 SINGLE COPY, 10 CENTS Thursday, March 6, 1952 C-C Cesspool Dumping Hit T. H. Engineer To ... _ MY THOUGHTS Hunt Clues After K™" Motor Promises Sour; For Which I Stand Indicted Stink Bridge Story Co. Demands Men Buy Goods With Japanese POWs On the Burma Front By EDWARD ROHRBOUGH KOLOA, Kauai — Employment Kauai Motor service station. The Reports of wanton dumping of after working hours and the place employe, informed Mr. Sheehan XXVI. cesspool contents at three places where employes buy gasoline and that the vehicle was a family au­ The first prisoner of war I met on the Burma border on the windward side of Oahu by tires are matters for the boss ta tomobile and his brother bought decide at the Kauai Motor Co., in the spring of 1944 had two deep bayonet gashes bn C-C refuse disposal men led this gasoline from the place he want­ week to an assurance from Terri­ Ltd., Koloa. ed to patronize. his throat and his tongue, half bitten off, was swollen torial Board, of Health officials Such restrictions of freedom have “You better buy gas from our and bleeding. He had inflicted these wounds upon that they will Investigate not only resulted in wholesale quitting, de­ service station," Mr. Sheehan is re­ himself in two suicide attempts. these reports, but also the manner motions and discharges at the ported to have told this employe, in which the C-C department han­ company where the ILWU lost a who quit his job because of ag­ “Do you still want to die?” I ashed him. dles the contents of its “honey consent election last year. With­ gravated grievances. “No, I Want to live if the Americans will let me.” wagons.” ! out a union backbone, the em­ According to. employes of Kauai “Why did you attempt suicide?” I asked him, al­ Checking the three reports, the ployes have found out that the Motor Co., Ltd., this employe is though we assumed from the reports RECORD discovered that, al­ sweet and attractive promises of not the first to be called in for though the C-C department does the employer mean nothing. patronizing competitors. .Others we read that practically all Japanese not authorize such dumping, its Want Union Conditions have been told to be loyal to the prisoners of war tried to take their own authorized manner of han­ Already employes are talking of company, to the extent of buying lives. dling cesspool contents is con­ organizing a union to improve its tires, gasoline and accessories. “Because,” the BOW answered, “to sidered hazardous to the hygenic .conditions. House rules at Kauai Motors conditions of the area by the restrict employes from working be a prisoner is the supreme disgrace Recently an employe left his board of health. job when President Jack Shee­ for other garages after working of an imperial soldier.” “Stink Bridge,” a name used by han called him on the carpet for hours. Some other provisions of Sgt. Kenji Yasui and I talked to (more on page 7) not purchasing gasoline at the' (more on page 7) him, paying clo. e observation to his views and sentiments. The prisoner was a Japanese peasant who had been physically and psychologically drilled 26 or 30 Cents Is Waikiki Piece Work to become a fearless and ruthless automaton, with “Ya­ mato spirit” and the “Code of Bushido.” He had no deep social philosophy. His thinking Pay For Making Tourists’ Aloha Shirts had been restricted and simplified by the Japanese By STAFF WRITER quit recently quote the price they later, because he's competing militarists and their big financial backers. He was a Tourists dawdle in the front of are paid at 2G cents a shirt. with assembly line production product of a society where thought control prevailed, the bright Surfrider Sportswear Their boss, T. H. Ho, proprietor from the Mainland. Like many and where the people had been silenced and whipped shop at 2142 Kalakaua Ave. and of the business, says they get other manufacturers faced with 30 cents per shirt, and he says the necessity of keeping expenses into conformity by Japanese militarists and their big finger the low-priced aloha shirts on the counter speculatively. But he can’t afford to pay them any down, he tries to balance his financial backers. And such shackling of -the people’s in the back room, 12 power sewing more. But he does pay cutters business losses by adjustments rights to speak and listen, to read and write and to machine operators labor steadily, and ironers more—on an hourly on' the wages of the workers— hold and advocate non-conforming political views was scarcely looking up from their basis of 75 cents and one dollar. who have it tougher trying to live on what he pays them than necessary for the warring elements to eliminate op­ jobs, and perhaps they are the Of four girls who quit, one said busiest workers in Honolulu. she did so because she knew she he can have it managing Surf- position to the invasion of Manchuria, to the war of There is good reason for them couldn’t make enough money. An­ rider Sportswear. aggression in China proper, southeast Asia and the not to look up. They work on a other quit after she got a check for Ho explains that he can't afford Pacific. piecework basis, and some who less than $10 for working a 40,-hour to train girl$ to operate the ma­ week. chines, and he complains that it’s I saw then how different this soldier was from us. Must Be Fast very hard to keep good operators Back in the states, General DeWitt had said, after at the wages he pays. He main­ Some Nurses Too Rough “That kind we don't want,” says we had been evacuated from the West Coast defense Mr. Ho. “If they can't make at tains most of the twelve make far area he commanded, that “a Jap’s a Jap!” and citizen- least $30 a week, they don’t belong more than $40 a week and opens Maluhia Patients Say; his books to prove it. (more on page 4) here. They aren’t fast enough." Nobody could work fast enough The highest pay for one opera'- Hope Mossman Hears to do Ho much good, it developed (more on page 7) “They’re clean. They work hard and do their jobs, but they’re Dr. Leslie Breaks Rules, Tangles With rough. They’re rougher than they need to be. Dr. Mossman doesn’t Won't Punch Clock On Own Time; Sugar know about it. If he knew he’d Kealoha But May Get $1,100 Monthly get after them." Those are words of a woman Mill Workers Locked Out At Waialua By SPECIAL WRITER If the $1,100 salary is approved, patient at Maluhia Home, one of Because workers refused to pany for two hours call-in time HILO, Hawaii—Dr. William F. Dr. Leslie will be making more a number who feel Dr. Mossman punch time 10 minutes before for all those who were locked out. Leslie, head of Puumaile and Hilo than the chairman of the county “just doesn’t know” the manner starting time, as demanded by Memorial Hospitals, is one man of Hawaii, James Kealoha. and attitude of some of the prac­ the Waialua Agricultural Co., the When the boiling house work­ whose rise in government employ­ The proposed salary is higher tical nurses toward the patients plantation locked out its mill and ers arrived to report for work ment is proportionate to the in­ than any grade provided in the they care for. shop employes Wednesday morn­ at six in the morning, A. F. Wal­ crease in his unpopularity. classification 'law, so the com­ Their complaint is not against ing and said, they were being sus­ lace, mill superintendent, de­ Against the opposition of a ma­ mission would have to authorize the registered nurses, they em­ pended for the day. jority of the doctors in Hilo, he was a special contract to permit Dr. phasize. With one exception, they manded that they punch in at recently appointed superintendent Leslie to get the raise. have little but praise for the un­ While the company has been ten minutes before six. The work­ of the two .hospitals. derstanding with which the regis­ pressuring the workers to punch ers refused to punch in on their At the present time he receives in on their own time, it wants Special Contract for Pay a $100 monthly car allowance, in tered nurses treat them. The ex­ own time, since they were not ception is a nurse they consider its employes to punch out after ■ going to work until six, they ex­ In spite of several bitter fights addition to his salary. Since he quitting time. with the Hawaii County Civil Serv­ does not use his car for official unnecessarily brusque. plained. Wallace sent them ice Commission, the chances are business now, legal authorities in Pinching Charged Boiling House Workers First home. that the commission will approve Hilo have questioned the legality But when the practical nurses Between 150 add 200 workers When the mill and shop workers a special contract to pay him of the extra payment. get rushed and irritated, they are from the mill and shops were sent arrived prior to 7 a. m., Wallace $1,100 a month, plus many other The $1,100 rate is believed to be likely to forget they are dealing home Wednesday, and their union, made similar demands.