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Vol. II, No. 5 SINGLE COPIES 10 CENTS Thursday, September 1, 1949 Kauai Pensioner Lives On $6.39 Court R uling Seen More Than Gossip: Local Girl Loses Plantation Luna As Contradictory UP AND DOWN ON MERCHANT STREET Job,Apt^Reason-- Deafened Retired “So ambiguous, contradictory, Is it true that 125,000 shares The talk on Merchant St. is Negro Boy Friend and uncertain is this ruling,” says of Matson Navigation Co. owned the reported $40,000,000 which a local lawyer, speaking of the' de the California and Hawaiian Re By STAFF WRITER Man With Blows cision of the U. S. District Court by C. Brewer & Co. were fining Corp, borrowed from the “dumped” on the Brewer plan Because her boy friend is a Ne By Special Correspondence in the case-of-the ILWU vs. the Prudential Life Insurance Co. gro—a soldier and a veteran of legislature, governor and others, tations? We hear there’s loud LIHUE, Kauai—An old Jap A reliable source says that this action in Germany in World War anese pensioner of the Koloa- “that it can be interpreted only grumbling and rumbling going money paid for two-thirds of II—Sharon Wiechel, 22, was fired by the judges who wrote it. Even on inside and outside the walled this year’s sugar crop now in Grove Farm was retired by the then, it is* open to a number of citadel on lower Fort St. from her job at American Legion company: at,$14.04 a month. From storage—at prevailing price. The Post 26, she says, and asked to ■ this sum, deductions for rent, different interpretations.” “What a fine time—when the other third, now being harvested, move out of her apartment at 431 As a sample of contradictory will be bought at the prevailing water and medical care totaled strike’s on—to dump those' stocks Seaside Ave. $7.65. language, he points to a passage on the plantations!” commented price of the time of marketing which restrains “any construc in the future, and we are also Sharon says, “It was the man This former worker, now bro a person with a keen interest ager who told me. He said my tion or application of said Acts in the Brewer plantations and told that the overall price will ken down physically, is allotted 2 and 3 . . . which would deny to outside activities weren’t up to for living expenses $6.39 a month. deep sympathy for the small be adjusted later. par, or something like that.” the plaintiffs here the free exer stockholders who have holdings “All this is not confusing at Recently, an ILWU member who cise of (a) Any of their federal in the plantations but none or all,” says our source. “The Cali The manager, Tom Carpentier, had known the alien for many rights in connection with the la negligibly few in the agency. fornia and Hawaiian is owned used a "Gentleman’s Agreement” years and had assumed the latter bor dispute between them and “Fine set-up, the Big Five by the Hawaiian Plantations sort of phrase that didn’t say had been bom deaf, investigated (more on page 5) way. . .” he said. and run by the Big Five.” specifically what it meant, yet the pensioner’s case. The union left no doubt in either the minds member learned that the retired of Sharon or Air Force Sergeant worker had been deafened by the James Summers, the ttfll, athletic blows of a company luna many Negro veteran who keeps company years ago. Crozier Rejects LH. Treasurer’s Bid with ■ her. Young Have Grievances Too “I’ve run into things like that This is a picture of the cast on the Mainland, of course,” he aways, too old to keep working told the RECORD, “but it’s my at a fast pace set by the young for Out Of Court Settlement With Bank first experience like that here. and the modem machines. But You’ve got to fight something the old are not the only ones with Willie Crozier, hulking business like this.” grievances in-this locality. " man anti former legislator, looked Sergeant Summers, who has been Two sore points exist among •Territorial Treasurer William B. in the Army since 1942, plays back- worker groups in the Koioaf- Brown in the eyes and said: field and end positions on the lo Grove Farm areas. One is the “I’m not settling out of court. cal Army football team. policy of the Grove Farm hiring My lawyer is not in the habit “Don’t you know about the bars system since the merger of two of settling out of court and I’m (more on page 7) not selling him out. And why (more on page 7) are you acting as a negotiator?” The meeting took place in Treas Sears Employes urer Brown’s office last Thursday Price Cut-Throat afternoon, following Crozier’s pick eting of the Bank of Hawaii in Must Sign Phony . the morning with signs that said: Among Orchestra “Bank of Hawaii Blockading my ‘Loyalty’ Pledge Business. . .” and “Bank of Ha waii Resorts to Unfair, Dilatory Ji the advertising of Sears, Roe Leaders Hits All Legal Tactics to Starve People.” buck and Co. is as false as the T. H. Officials Excited statements on the company’s ap By EDWARD ROHRBOUGH As he finished picketing the plication blanks, it may well be Not so many months ago, $10 per bank in the morning, Crozier walk- subject to censure by the Federal man per night was average pay for -ed toward Alakea St., he told the Trade Commission, if not ’some the Hawaiian musicians who fur RECORD. more drastic action. The two sen nish music and entertainment in “Brown and Deputy Bank Ex tences immediately preceding the many of Honolulu’s restaurants aminer Lederer came rushing up blank space left for the applicant’s and bars. Now, because of price- -to me, quite excited, and asked signature contain what an assist cutting and under-bidding by a few ;me why should I picket the bank? ant U. S. • district attorney calls a ,orchestra leaders, the pay has They wanted to talk to me, they “misrepresentation” with what dropped to $6, $5 and in one place ..said. I said name the place and would seem the object of “discour as low as $4. The situation may time, and they were still excited aging leftist organizations” among lead to an organization of . Poly as we parted.” the company’s employes. nesian musicians who want to Following the street conversa The sentences are as foUows: standardize their pay-demands tion, Crozier’s office telephone “My signature hereupon certifies and insure something of job-secuf- started ringing. Treasurer Brown I AM NOT A MEMBER of the ity for themselves. wanted to talk to him. His part Communist Party or of the Ger Organization Broached ner said Crozier was out. Finally, man-American. Bund. This state Benny Rogers, who has played when Crozier returned' in the ment required by Federal Law.” for as high as $12 and as low as afternoon he made an appoint "There is no such federal law," $7.50, currently at a Kaimuki cafe, ment with Treasurer Brown for U. S. Attorney W. R. Hoddick told -says, “One outfit has tried to chop '3:30 ;p.m. the RECORD. me on two jobs. We ought to have THE CLIMAX in Willie Crozier’s picketing campaign against the Bank “Red” Cry Old Tactic some way of keeping a minimum "But Brown did riot return to of Hawaii came Tuesday when Crozier took his beef to lolani Palace A union leader thought such use of $8. v There was talk of an or his office until five to four. He with placards addressed to Governor Stainback. Monday he picketed of the name of the federal govern ganization last year, but nothing was out of breath. I- thought he Treasurer William B. Brown at the Territorial Building, but his cam ment to influence the political has happened yet.” probably had been at some meet- paign began last week when he picketed the Bank of Hawaii. convictions of employes or pros- Abraham Boogie Man, who had .(niore on page 7) —PHOTO BY SEITZ , (more on page 3) • (more on page 3) Page Two HONOLULU RECORD Thursday, September 1, 19491
, to register their determined opposition to Giant Monopolists the: arms for Europe program. While the talk of monopoly bounced National Summary THESE LEADERS HAD MET sometime around, on Capitol Hill, with employers ago at the Washington Conference on trying their darnedest to shift attention goes to ^ix giant manufacturers whose take in Johnson’s words the country “gets a Peaceful Alternatives to the Atlantic Pact. from ■ them by pointing their fingers at is 75 per cent of the total. - dollar’s worth for every dollar spent.” The group had been founded by Albert labor unions, the Federal Trade Commis The -big, three, Schenley, Seagrams and. . Then he explained that the program Einstein, Bishop W. J. Walis, Emily Greene sion laid some^cards on the table which National Distillers Products Cbrp., hold calls for the firing-of 135,000 civilian
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UNITED. PUBLIC WORKERS OF AMERICA to the Workers Local 646 CIO of Hawaii THOMAS I. NODA, President HENRY B. EPSTEIN, Regional Director
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To Our Fellow, Workers Pineapple & Cannery Of Hawaii on Labor Day Workers Union . ★ Local 996#— General Teamsters ILWU LOCAL 152 (AFL) Thursday, September 1,1949 HONOLULU RECORD Page Three Educator Hits Attacks HGEA Sees “Reds”; Passes Up $25 Parade, Speeches, Distortions By On Academic Freedom Two Dailies Hit URBANA, Hl. (FP)—A Univer Threatened Bonus LossTo 10,000 Picnic In CIO sity of Illinois professor has warned By SPECIAL WRITER the convention by following ac By FF.K. Bassett the teaching profession that facul Without 'taking any. action to tivities in the Moana Hotel meet ty purges, textbook censorship and stop the threatened loss of the ing room, commented that ‘’gov Labor Day Program W. K. Bassett’s comment on his required loyalty oaths threaten, to $25 monthly bonus by 10,000 city, ernment workers are joining the resignation from the chairmanship frighten the less courageous teach county and Territorial civil service UPW because HGEA has failed to Labor Day speeches will deal of the 10th Democratic precinct er “into having no opinion at all.” employes, 200 .Oahu and outside obtain permanent wage increases with the local, national, and in club of the 4th district is, “I am Dr. John S. Brubacher, a visit island delegates to the Hawaiian within the' classification system ternational problems of labor, ac . still a loyal Democrat and a left ihg teacher from Yale, told 1,300 —Government—Employees—Associa^- -and—improved—working...conditions__ „co_r_ding to information from Ralph wing Democrat.” graduating students Lhat such ac-= tion adjourned their annual con for Hawaii’s city, county and Ter-Vombrinkrchairman- tivities betray a failure of nerves vention after rubber stamping ritorial employes.” Day Committee, and the speakers cause distortions of his words in rather than a sturdy‘confidence in committee reports and resolutions He added further, “The gov will include representatives of the the daily press have been used the democratic tradition. prepared by HGEA’s downtown ernment worker is tired of HGEA community outside the trade un against Mayor Wilson. “If we have anything to fear, Honolulu office. concessions, such as this con-' ion movement. Though the list of ‘Every thing, I do is distorted it is that we will be denied access vention made io corrupt politi speakers is not complete, Chair by both newspapers,” Mr. Bas The monotonous acceptance man Vossbrink said he has already to grapple intelligently with the by unanimous vote of officer and cians in the Territorial legisla sett said, adding, “I’m resign books and teachers whose ideas and ture.” received confirmation from W. K. ing from any kind of office in committee reports by the con Bassett, administrative assistant the club.” doctrines are in controversy,” Bru_ vention drew this comment from bacher declared. to Mayor Wilson, and Frank Earlier, Mr. Bassett had pointed Oahu’s Joseph Akau: “The con SEARS EMPLOYES Marshall Davis, RECORD column He reminded the graduates that vention will be a farce unless out-the headline of the Advertiser “America was born in revolt, flour (from page 1) ist, that they will speak on the story covering his appearance at we discuss the reports and make program at the reviewing stand, last Thursday night’s meeting of ished on dissent and became great recommendations.” pective employes, might be ille lolani Palace Grounds. through experimentation.” Jane Christians of Hawaii joined gal. He thought, too, it might be the 10th precinct club at Kapio- Akau and condemned the lack of interpreted by the National Labor Union Speakers will include Jack lani Park. The headline implied Relations Board as being discrim Hall, Regional Director, ILWU, that the meeting had been stopped Interest. Jack Kawario, president of ILWU because of the complaints of Price Cut-Throat Pat Legislator’s Backs inatory against unions, since the Local 136 (longshoremen), and “neighbors.” (from page 1) All the delegates and officers “Red" cry is often used by em ployers against unions attempting Rev. E. C. Yadao, International ‘‘The only neighbors I know of worked toward such an organiza passed a resolution praising the Representative, ILWU,1 Calixto around there anywhere are the tion and who had. been expected legislature, which has done prac- to organize. Damaso, Local 136, Justo dela - elephants In the zoo,” Mr. Bas- tically nothing to help the Mr. Hoddick thought the pas by others to head it, had him sage could not be so construed Cruz, Local 142, and possibly others ■sett said. self under-bid recently by a public employes, and took an oath to be announced later. Police actually turned out the girls’ band and has no engage promising to combat the “infil because “it is not directly against The parade, beginning at 10 tration of communism i nt O unions.” lights of the bandstand, Mr. Bas ment. a, m. at the corner of River and sett said he had learned, because Hawaii.” The note in the corner of the Queen । Streets, will proceed to Joe Kiawe, who has a high rep Executive Director Charlie Sears application blank, "F5901 the caretaker wanted to go to utation among both musicians and Rev. 5-20-46” would seem to indi- Beretariia, on Beretadia to Miller, bed. Although the Advertiser story patrons, hasjjeen able to ask and Kendall announced that the and from there to the Palace indicated that a large crowd en Special Session of the Legislature . cate .the application form has been Grounds. Five floats are being pre get $10.-thus far, but he realizes _had passed Senate Bill 18, which in use since May 20; 1946. tered into an argument with Mr. ■ that the trend and, under-bidding---- Other parts of the statement pared by the ILWU locals, Marine Bassett, the veteran newsman de provides for a “collective bar- Cooks and Stewards, United nies that. . by competitors may eventually af gaining election” among civil require the applicant to agree that fect him as ft has others.' “my employment and compensa Public Workers, the American service employes—without >ny Communications Association, and “There was one man, flanked ; AH.Musicians Lose collective bargaining. 'Kendall tion can ■ be terminated, with or ILWU Women’s auxiliary, Local by three other merf and two > “I don’t think, these people do mentioned nothing of the fact without cause, and without any 20, who will have ^contingents in women,” he says, “and I failed ing the price-cutting realize that that Bill 18 provides no benefits notice, at any time,” and that no the parade. to convince them that , all Amer they’re hurting everyone," he says. for the HGEA members and will store manager or representative of. -Following the- speeches, which icans should, have the right to > “If they make everyone work' for not result in any wage increases,' the company “other than the presi freedom of expression guarah- : > dent or vice president of the com will begin shortly after 11 a. m„ so much less, they’ll be shoved out increased security, or signed • transportation will be provided for teed: by the Constitution of the again when all pay comes down. ' contracts. pany has any authority to enter all who wish to attend the after United States.” 1 I wouldn’t like to name the ones When a discussion started on into any agreement for employ ment for any - specified period of noon of sports and picnicking at HONOLULU RECORD doing the price-cutting because I assisting discharged HGEA mem Ala Moana Park. Picnickers are don’t think they realize what they bers to retain their jobs, John Miki, time.” advised to bring their own lunches. Published Every . Thursday ' are doing.” a Kendall machine spearhead and by Al Kealoha, like Kiawe and the civil service comriiittee chairman, Frank-ly Speaking TEN MILLION HOMES Honolulu Record Publishing I others, thinks there should be an asserted that the $500 spent in WASHINGTON — (FP) — Jerry Compiny, Ltd. organization through- which the . legal fees to defend Gottfried (from page 8) Winston and their. associates be Voorhis, executive secretary of the 811 Sheridan ■ St., Honolulu, T. H." musicians could work out their Seitz, recently removed adult pro Cooperative League of the U. S.', wage and job problems and he bation officer, was “a waste of cause of their political beliefs. Entered as second-class matter “We call upon you to stop the told the House banking committee May 10, 1949, at the Post Office at says he would be glad, to meet money.’’ recently that America needs 10 with the others. Some, but not Weight of Employers’ Words current drive against-the civil lib- Honolulu, Hawaii; under the Act of . many of the Hawaiian musicians , Mr. Miki felt that HGEA mem erties of the American people and million new homes this year. March 3, 1879. ■ belong to, the AFL Musicians’ bers had no right to, a hearing at to use the power of your offices ; Union, Kealoha says, because the the association’s expense if after to defend the constitutional rights union hasn’t been able to get jobs consultation with the department and lives of Negroes and all other for them. head involved, the HGEA execu American citizens.” Size limited • tives decided its members were Gentleman Al Karasick These musicians fill a specific guilty. sort • of entertainment demand— Big Island delegate Emil AGNES’ Hawaii’s Wrestling Promoter that of-the alcohol dispenser who Osorio told the convention of the Personalized Dressmaking has no dance floor. The size- of difficulty experienced in raising their bands is limited to five by HGEA. membership in Hawaii. For Milady regulations and there are certain He said “extremists” are joining specialized problems. the United Public Workers. 2469 S. King St. Ph. 991776 “I have two girls who come in One UPW member who observed Sends His Fondest Aloha and sing,” says Kealoha, describ ing his job at'an Iwilei bar, “but TO because Hiey’re only 19, they Seitz & Bristow must come in, do their numbers Associate Photographers Railroad Cafe The Workers of Hawaii and then go right out again.” 979 Iwilei Street There should be a system of job- • 2357-C Palolo Avenue On Labor Day rotation, the musicians agree, by • Which the five' or six bands could PHONE 705354 Telephone 58679 “play” bars for periods of two or three weeks, then move on to oth- - ers at the same scale of pay. Joe Kiawe says: “There are only a certain number of places where Oahu Business Directory orchestras like ours are in demand, and the owners of. the cafes like to vary their programs and their Places To Dine Real Estate Automobile Repairs orchestras.” Dr. J. N. 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“Montie” Richards Loaded OPINIONS THE QUESTION: “THERE ARE TOO MANY small Will the decision of the Federal LEST ANYONE FORGET, the With Titles; Carden Bigger Court, in regard to the strike law businessmen in Hawaii,” was the Board of Health reminds passers help or hurt our community? comment Judge Alva Steadman through its halls that this is the PROVING THAT NUMBER OF OFFICES DOESN’T made last spring to Willie Crozier b i r t h - month of “Bonaparte, A. G. WONG, businessman, 3228' in the presence of witnesses. ALWAYS MAKE A BIG SHOT! ~ George St.: It seems to me the Napoleon 1769-1821. Vaccinated government is beating around the his army against smallpox,” and. bush. They don’t want to come out “YOU CAN SPIT in front of a of “Holmes, Dr. . Oliver Wendell. with it that the union is .right. EDWARDW.CARDEN churcli,” a passerby, told Willie 1809-1894. Publicized contagious decision where they dont come u — . . ness- of -child—bed—linemh=Reople= Residence: 3250 Pacific Heights Road day, “and you can spit in front get remembered for the strangest ’ right out with the truth hurts the things! ■ President-Director: Bank of Hawaii community more. . of the court and get away with it. Director: C. Brewer & Co., Ltd. . _ WAITERS O. MARTIN, autoino- But you’d better watch out before HGEA’s big dinner August 27, Director: Hawaiian Pineapple Co., Ltd. (C&C) bile dealer, King & Richard Sts.: you spit in front of the Bank of was advertised as having “room Born 1892, Honolulu. Married Hazel H. Vinton; daughter, Bar Well, if this law will bring in the Hawaii.” . for 1,500 happy government em bara V. Educated University of California. ships with food for the hungry it ployes” at the House of P. Y. ? Clubs: Oahu Country Club; Waialae Golf Club. is a very good law. THERE’S A LOT OF JOE HILL . Chong—who once let it be known, ALBERT SCHOFIELD, small and his spirit in the song “Unidn that he didn’t want the business businessman, P. O. Box 3641: Well, Trail,” by _ Alex Padua of Lihue, of union, people. There are those HERBERT (“MONTIE”) MONTAGUE RICHARDS - it hasn’t been definitely decided Kauai. Tfie chorus ends with, who say he hasn’t got it yet in yet. I’d rather reserve an opinion “Us workers must get wise; wives spite of the $4 per capita he Residence: 3760 Old Pali Road until the final decision. and children will starve to death socked HGEA’s trenchermen. Assistant Secretary: Castle & Cooke, Ltd. JAMES W. KAGAWA, business unless we organize.” . Assistant Treasurer-Director: Ewa Plantation Co. (C&C) man, 117 Ohelo Lane: I don’t think Padua, who came from the DON’T BELIEVE everyone who Assistant Secretary-Director: Kohala Sugar Co. (C&C) it will hurt. If it does hurt, it is Philippines in 1946 at the time of calls you to ask you easy questions Assistant Secretary-Director: Helemano Co., Ltd. (C&C) a very small matter. The main the HSPA’s courtship of Filipino and then tells you you’ve won a Assistant Secretary-Director: Wahiawa Water Co., Ltd. (C&C) thing is. to uphold the spirit of workers, says the idea for the prize on a radio show. A number Assistant Secretary-Director: Mahukona Terminals, Ltd. (C&C) democracy. Don’t you think so? song first came to him during the of puzzled, disappointed girls have Assistant Secretary-Director: kohala Ditch Co., Ltd. (C&C) Right off the bat I can give you ’46 sugar strike. He sang it most called at KHON in the last couple - Assist. Secretary-Director: Waialua Agricultural Co., Ltd. (C&C) that opinion. recently at a party given by Local of weeks-to collect $20 they thought Secretary-Asst. Treas.-Director: Kahua Ranch Co., Ltd. (C&C) DAN RIDLEY* attorney, Arcade 21 of the . ILWU women’s auxili they’d won. It seems some pretty Director: Home Insurance Co. of Hawaii, Ltd.' (C&C) Building: Looking at it from .the ary for. the striking longshoremen callous prankster- had called, pre Director: Hawaiian Trust Co., -Ltd. standpoint. of the! legal profession at Lihue. In a hall filled to ca tended to represent a quiz pro Director: Mutual Telephone Co. this temporary decision of the Fed pacity, Local 21 presented a pro- gram with prizes to be given free Director: Hawaiian Electric Co., Ltd. eral court is but a natural step - gram that included songs by Chris for the correct answers to ridic Director: Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Ltd. (no matter which side the court Perdeno, Esther Ramiscal, and a ulously easy questions. KHON, of . Director: Hilo Tribune-Herald, Ltd. sustains in the final analysis) quartette; Gloria and Dennis course, had never . originated or President-Director: Pacific -Industrial Engineers, Ltd. pending the final determination of Manipon and Angela and Milton heard of any such program before. P/esident-Director: Bruce & Co., Ltd. the issue. Valera. Mrs, Hilda Valera, chair Special Partner: Weaver & Co. (Automotive Repairs) z ROBERT C. ANDERSON, journ- man of Local 21, was master of WALTER D. ACKERMAN, Jr., Bom 1904, Honolulu. Son of the Rev. Theodore Richards and . alist, 643-C 12th Ave.: I think it ceremonies for the evening, and attorney-general: who used to be ■ Mary C. (Atherton) Richards, daughter of Joseph Ballard Ather will help the community because she presented the longshore . unit treasurer, stopped to look at Willie ton, who was son-in-law of Amos Starr Cooke, founder of the, it will allow some food and other with a check for $72.75 which rep- Crozier’s placards when Crozier Cooke family here. Uncles: The late Charles Henry Atherton necessities to come in while the le • resented money raised by Local 21 picketed the governor Tuesday. and Frank Cooke! Atherton. Cousins: Joseph'Ballard Atherton gality or non-legality of the -law in a dance given for the benefit . “What have you got to say about and Alexander Simpson Atherton. Brother: Atherton Richards is being tested. There shouldn’t of the strikers. them?” .asked Crozier. —who was squeezed out of Hawaiian business because he didn’t be. any suspension of this, until it "Oh, I don’t know anything agree with Big. Five policies. Sister: Mrs. Frank E. Midkiff; Dr. is decided to be illegal. If it is IT WAS MISS W. TENNEY, about it,” Ackerman answered, Midkiff is a trustee of the Bishop Estate. legal they can carry on as they not “Mrs.” - as Gadabout had it ' striding off. have been doing. last week, who wore diamond Then, as he walked, Married Leilani Rohrig; five children. . JOSEPH CARVALHO, musician, brooches on the Million Dollar lie talked Education: Kamehameha School, Punahou, Wesleyan University. over his shoulder, shouting back, 2972 Kapiblani Blvd.: I think it’s Picket Line and was asked to- lay “You’ve got a. lawyer and you Treasurer Council of Boy Scouts; YMCA; Board of Supervisors a darn good thing they prevented down the sign that said, "SO ought to know what to do.” 1945-1946. Defeated for mayor 1946, 1948. the Territory from paying money HUNGRY,' NO KAU KAU.” Her Clubs: Outrigger, Canoe, Pacific, etc. to the stevedore companies. If father was once president of the And at that point, because he there is any profit in the thing it . Matson Navigation Co. and the wasn’t looking where he walked, Next Week: THEY MARRIED COOKES should be put away so at the end SS Wilhelmina was named for the attorney-general ran slap-dab of the strike they can divide it be- her mother. Gives an insight on into the side of a building. - tween the union and £he com the segment of the community- panies. represented by "the picketline, eh? WHO WROTE ACT 2? During the court hearing on Act. 2 lawyers from the firm of Greetings to the porkers of Hawaii on Labor Day! Russell, Anderson, Wrenn' and LEO LEAVITT Jenks were conspicuously present —regularly. How true is the re Boxing Promoter port that this law firm prepared KATSUTO NAGAUE Act. 2? ACCOUNTANT and AUDITOR
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TED’S AUTO EXCHANGE General Auto Repair and Body Work ” Bouslog and. Symonds Send Their aloha 534 SOUTH STREET PHONE 65671 GREETINGS to.. Our Workers "To the Workers of“Hawaii owns On Labor Day MICHAEL ABE and JACK HISHINUMA i i of the I Riverside .Billiard Parlor I MERCHANT’S HARRIET BOUSLOG — MEYER C. SYMONDS , 1244 College Walk Phone 67173 GRILL Attorneys Extend Their Good Will 822 FORT STREET PIER' 11, Honolulu. Phone 55786 I TO THE HAWAIIAN WORKERS ON LABOR DAY Phone $5189 Thursday, September 1, 1949 HONOLULU RECORD Page Five Butchers' Beethoven Spots Poet Laureate Riders Disregard AMA’s "Lily White” CHICAGO (FP?—Dolores Smith, a 19-year-old recording clerk em- — ployed by the Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen Clause; Foreign-Made Bikes Popular (AFL), will some day be “the poetess laureate .of the working By WILFRED OKA Aug. 21 races, since both DeMello people.” When Alonzo DeMello and Carl Yasui were riding English That's the opinion ofUiiiuii Sec^“ =^a^ui=eamp—in=fii:Rf.=Hnd=.sep.nnrl,--- bikes—DeMellO-anJtArieI,”a.one- retary Patrick Gorman, who said Aug.^21, in the motorcycle races cylinder job, and Yasui a “Tri- of Dolores, whose poems appear at Waimanalo, they beat Jack •umph.” ' monthly in the union's magazine: “Rusty” Dale, the rider rated high On Labor Day at Waimanalo, “We discovered, her talent by ac est locally by the American Mo DeMello, Yasui, Dale and the oth cident. She has a singing soul.” torcycle Association. They also ers will be racing their bikes, try So impressed are Gorman and threatened the validity of the “lily- ing their darnedest to win. We President Earl Jimerson with her white" clause of the AMA—similar hope the AMA will have its pho ability that they plan to publish on the Mainland to that of the tographer on hand to see the many her poems in book form. American Bowling Congress. De , non-whites riding. Constitution Gorman’s own ventures into the Mello is a Negro and Yasui an AJA. or no constitution, the boys will realm of culture are well known. “In Hawaii,” says DeMello, be out doing their best—disregard The writer of 650 musical composi “the AMA doesn’t bother us about ing the AMA’s “lily-white” clause this regulation because practical completely. tions, he has been widely acclaimed ly all the riders don’t care about as the "Butchers’ Beethoven.” it. They’re not concerned about whether a Japanese boy or a Ha COURT RULING waiian, or a Chinese, or a Portu (from page 1) “Devil Dog” All-Round guese is riding in the race.” the seven stevedoring companies The story of Hawaiian motor so long as said rights are exer cyclists, generally unimown to all cised in good faith in such a way Watchman-Omiya but enthusiasts, is the story of and in such a manner as not to During his 3 years and 8 months clubs like the Mid-Pacific Motorcy affect adversely Territorial op serving in the U. S. Anny mili cle. Club, the Rainbow Riders, the erations under said Act or other tary police, big Mitsuo Omiya was Aloha Riders, the Oahu Motor applicable Territorial law.” ■ on duty in Honolulu and he had cycle Club, and the Hawaiian Mo But, says the lawyer, all picket plenty of experience with crime, , torcycle Club. It is also the story ing is generally against any labor both large and small. One of the ' of many individual riders who just employed on jobs where men are assignments he had most often get together and go lor a ride. . out on strike, so how, he asks, can was that of chasing down car AMA Rules Govern you both picket and not “affect ad thieves. The clubs are mostly affiliated versely” the Territory’s strike “We cooperated with the Hono with the AMA, whose local repre breaking? Refer again to the rul lulu Police Department,” he says, sentative is Alfred Kovner, and ing: DEMELLO AND YASUI, local bike riders who won' first and second “and we caught plenty, but 90 AMA regulations are those that “In this connection any picket or places at an AMA-sponsored race at Waimanalo two weeks ago. Be per cent of those cars would govern local competition in hill pickets . . . shall be regarded as tween them is Albert Fernandez, who kept their machines in top-trim. never have been stolen if they’d climbing, dirt track races, and en that which the plaintiffs say they been protected by any kind of durance tests. . - are, namely, monuments to free alarm.” Official ratings, too, are made men in protest erf said acts, and SAI CHOW DOO not constituting a picket line in His police work gave him the idea by the AMA, and the greater num TONI TWINS and ber of rated riders carry the “nov connection with a labor dispute.” KENNETH ELLIS YOUNG that Honolulu would welcome a ice” rating. Those carrying that “It is then a monument to free WASHINGTON (FP) — Look device such as the burglar alarm men,” cracked the lawyer. “Free for a change in those Toni ads, ATTORNEYS AT LAW he and his brother, Stanley Omi rating here, are: Joe Peters, Carl ladies. The Federal Trade Com Yasui, Jack Dale, Gilbert Medeiros, to starve while strike-breakers Announce they have' formed the ya are now selling. Their alarm, Herman Cabral, Jack Morris, John take their jobs.” mission, government policemen called the Devil Dog, is attached The real victory for the union, on the fair-and-square advertis partnership of to the horn of the automobile. “Cobra” De Sota, “Gabby” Gou- vela, Fred DeMello, J. Muggs, K. in the lawyer’s opinion, is the fact ing beat, announced Aug. 25 that “It can be set,” says Stanley, Nelson, Wayne Yasui, Joseph Snif- that the case is still in Federal the Toni Co. had agreed to cut DOO and YOUNG “so that the slightest jar will set fens, James Reeves, Alonzo DeMel Court with the plaintiffs (the out misrepresenting its product. For the General Practice of Law it going, but it can’t be a nui lo, Barney Aldrich and Bobby Lum ILWU) now proving "irreparable From now on, “Which Twin sance because after 30 to 45 sec Ho. damage” done the union by the Has the Toni?” ads will explain Suite 402 - 405 National Bldg. onds, it stops. Then, if anyone English Bikes Popular Territory’s strike-breaking, acts, in that the twin with the $2 Toni Bethel- & Hotel Streets disturbs the car again, the alarm An interesting sidelight in local order to win “a temporary injunc home permanent had her job Telephone G622G - starts all over.” competition is the popularity which tion. Following that decision, if done by a professional before the The Omiyas’ alarm may be at foreign-made motorcycles have won it is favorable, the union may try cameraman took over. It will tached, with some extra cost, to among the riders. English, French for a permanent injunction, and also state that the $15 beauty doors of stores, to houses, garages, and Italian machines have all won finally a test of the constitution shop price on the other twin in or nearly any kind of property. favor in matches against Ameri ality of the law itself. cludes both price of coiffure and “It’s the best all around job I’ve can makes, and probably English "Of course,” the lawyer says, price of the wave. seen,” says big Mitsuo. “If it “bikes” at the moment carry the “the question of constitutionality is weren’t, I wouldn’t be handling highest reputation of all. That in the case all along, from the Galusha it.” reputation was enhanced in the beginning.’’ SCHOOL of BUSINESS
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legislature Can Dish It SPREAD THE WORD THE RECORD IS SOLD our sports world Out But Can't Take It at the FOLLOWING PLACES: By ALLAN BEEKMAN to reconstruct the Democratic Par By Wilfred Oka On Monday afternoon I chanced ty have won the Republicans’ MARUYAMA’S DELICATESSEN to meet Joseph “Nevada ■ Pete” warmest commendation, declared: Beretania & Isenberg Sts. Petrowski', author of the Oahu “The Democratic Party as a whole Democratic county committee’s is not responsible for this resolu CITY HALL resolution denouncing Act Two, tion.” And he explained that the King & Punchbowl Sts. The Olson-Hardy Fight „thejecently_enacted_strike=bieak^. -resolution had not. been sent to ---- —The K.-and-K. promotional team brought_down a character by the - ing law. It is well known that this the Democratic Central' Commit ; KAL11H CENTER name of Boom-Boom Hardy for Bobo Olson and in less than three ' resolution created a furor when it tee. 1708 N. King St. rounds boom! boom! and Mr. Hardy was flat on his nose. A, lot of the was read to the Mr. Petrowski scoffed at Rep. OKADA-DRUG STORE spectators were impressed by the work of Olson. Quite; a few more were 1 e-g i s lature; I Kauhane’s assertion. "The Oahu (Next to Palama Theater) skeptical about the way Boom Boom went out. In our mind Mr. Hardy took advantage County Committee is autonomous 711 N1 King St. was no match for Olson. In spite of the spectacular kayo we felt that of this meeting to the extent that it gives or it was a dull bout because there was hardly anybody who felt that to find out why. ders, directions and commands PIN HI SUNDRIES Hardy could last more than a few rounds after he-threw a few punches. "Mr. Petrow to the Territorial Central Com 427 Kapahulu Ave. He was strictly from ham and despite all the press agentry by the Star' ski,” I said, mittee,” Mr. Petrowski an Bull and the Advertiser, should not have been in the same ring with “what is the in- I nounced. “The sooner some of AALA PARK INN Bobo. side story on the i our political lame brains wake up 270 N. King St. The lemon of the week was Frank Chavez who was imported on rebuke your res- ' to. that fact the sooner the peo MABEL’S BARBER SHOP semi-final billing. After two miserable showings he was matched with .olution received ■. ple will become aware of a repre 69 N. Beretania St. Half Clout Clyde and, surprise of surprises, Harry Clyde beat him from the legis- \ sentative form of government.” in a dull fight. A wit remarked that give and take a pound or two lature?” “Why do you think the legisla THE BOXERS INN Rapid (Swoon) Ropedo could have given Chavez a run for his money. Mr. Petrowski Mr. BEEKMAN ture wanted the resolution ex 60 N. Pauahi St. The sucker public again took it on the chin! gave me a copy punged?” Francis Baracao and Jimmy Bothelo gave the cash customers of the resolution. In brief, it cen MID-TOWN DRUG CO., their money’s worth. Francis had Jimmy , in a bad way but Bothelo "Well,” he observed, moodily 1150 Bethel St. sures the "fawning and grovelling sucking his pipe, "considering the stretched out his left hand in the comer and parried Baracao off. manner” in which the legislature fact our legislative arrogant asses RAINBOW CAFE In the next round winded Baracao took the count on his knee con acted' "at the behest and im- saw fit to scream about the dignity Smith & Queen Sts. ceding the fight. ■ ' portunings of the Big Five.” It of the legislature being upset by Jimmy Nagao and Lou Langley were matched in a preliminary resolves, “That the Oahu County this resolution—their voting to ex HALE AIKANE bout. Nagao won although we felt it was a good draw. However in. Committee of the Democratic Par punge it from the proceedings of 1413 S. King St. passing we should like to repeat what we said previously, that is, to- ty of Hawaii hereby requests the our present asinine legislative rec retire both Lou and Jimmy for their own good. Legislature to reconsider, kill, and BOWMAN GROCERY ords is proof positive evidence they 3636 Waialae Ave. * * * * ♦ repeal this subversive and un- can dish it out but can’t take it.” Benevolent Sam? American measure.” He added that he-felt vindicated - BLUE & WHITE CAFE Three Screamed Vociferously and enheartened by the decision 811 'Sheridan St. ' ■ In the Rudy Cruz-Bob Takeshita fiasco, the Republican Repre "The resolution was sent, to the of' the federal court this week, sentative was given a respite while everyone else grot suspended. As; clerks of each house,” explained which has stayed enforcement of OMIYA SUNDRIES far as a number of people were concerned the suspension of Cruz, Wil Mr. Petrowski, “and a copy was what he termed "the Fascist pro 1205 S. King St. son, Takeshita, and Leo Leavitt and the whitewash for Benevolent visions of Acts 2 and 3 passed by Sam was without precedent. This incident proved most embarrassing also placed on the desk of each ARTESIAN STORE for the Republican party. In fact it was as embarrassing to them, legislator. No sooner had the clerk our half-witted legislature.” 1830 S. King St. in the senate finished reading the "In view of this decision,” he as was the recent alleged detention of Palmer Parker by Federal resolution than Doc Hill, Ben Dil said, “I am preparing another LAL’S THRIFTY WAY authorities on the Mainland. Palmer Parker, another Republican, was lingham and Eugene Capellas, resolution to present to the legis 730 S. Queen St. written off the press as merely a “candidate for office,” instead of lature—written on asbestos paper!” with the usual Republican label. The Republican party got him off screaming vociferously, like griev N. M- CHANG without a suspension. ’ ously wounded animals, began to 1374 N. King St. protest. Senator Capellas declared This burg is now aware of the split between Sad Sam and his the ‘resolution is an insulting out AMAGURI TARO stable. Boys who had considered Sam as Benevolent are now turning 243 N. King St. against him. The grapevine reliably reports that dissension has now rage.’ " hit Sam and a number of his own boys have turned sour on him. “What about Sens. Dillingham CORNER LIQUOR STORE Efforts to cool these boys off or to silence them have been to no avail. and Hill?” 1042 Bethel St. Diplomats and ambassadors have been dispatched but the fact remains Mr. Petrowski frowned slightly that the boys are still on the outs with him. in the effort of recollection. “The IN WAHIAWA: There is also.the matter of-the Phil Kim-Bob Takeshita proposed delicate and sensitively attuned CONSUMERS’ MARKET nerves of both Ben Dillingham fight and the proposed percentage offered them. A higher percentage and Doc Hill bellowed.‘Amen!’” IN WAIPAHU: was refused by Sad Sam contrary to the best principles of business.. he added thoughtfully. KATO SAXMIN SHOP This was refused, as Sam maintained, because of ethics. This explana ‘In the house, Rep. A. Q. Mar- tion rated-the best laugh of this year. callino had leaped to his feet as But* this sort of explanation, feeble in itself, brings out more and soon as the clerk finished reading EMBARRASSING? more the tie-in Sad Sam allegedly has with Leo Leavitt. It has been the resolution. "I have a copy of Rising cost of living, speed-up publicly repeated that the Commission knows of this but the two boys, this resolution,” Rep. Marcallino on the production line and grow are much too smart for the august Commission members. How long this cried, in acknowledgment of Mr. ing unemployment put the small is going to continue depends on the Commission,' but in the meantime Petrowski’s thoughtfulness in pro wage earners in a bad frame a lot of' the public is getting wiser and smarter.; Pretty. soon there viding it. "If anything can be in of mind, particularly if they will be enough pressure to really make the Commission jump.' contempt of this' legislature—this hear of big profits and executives’ ■ The recent investigation by the Governor’s office of ■ the boxing - letter could be.” And Mr. Mar colossal salaries. So last week situation is in itself the investigation of the Governor for lie is to- callino moved that the representa the U. S. Senate did the big blame if the men he had appointed, and mind you, the majority of them . tives’ lacerated feelings be soothed money men a favor by amend- Republicans, have not carried out their duties as a public trust. by having the resolution “expunged capitalist (banding him a cup of coffee and ind the internal revenue law so Getting back to Sad Sam it should be almost safe for us to-use the - from the house record.” sandwich): “Why, man, I don’t want to that names of individuals draw figure of speech and say that the house may fall in on him. Rep. Kauhane seconded the mo j^e you starve—) need you to keep my ing more than $75,000 a year * * * * * tion. Rep. Kauhane, whose efforts employees from asking higher wages.” would no longer be made public. The People’s Choice for TBC Secretary: Henry O. “Pop” Pfaender With the resignation of Bill Kim as Boxing Commission secretary a vacancy now exists that is soon to be filled by civil service and the : commissioners. Several have applied for the job. We should like to submit for consideration the name of “Pop” Pfaender. By the thousands of those who know him, he is affectionately called “Pop” and he knows intimately the many thousands who have come under his guidance and tutelage at the Nuuanu YMCA. A grad uate of Springfield Y College, located at Springfield, Mass., “Pop” came to Hawaii as soon as he graduated from college in the late tw.en- • ties and took over the job of building up the physical department at the small but rapidly growing Nuuanu YMCA. His job at the Y included work with the very youngest to the so- called health classes for businessmen. Besides his regular- work, “Pop” ‘ was never too busy to help in AAU affairs which included all branches of officiating as well as serving on the many committees, including the very unpopular registration committee. He gave amateur wres tling a start by organizing the first classes in the Territory, with Bert Itoga as instructor. He organized the Nuuanu Y Swimming Club which today is a power in swim circles. He encouraged’ weightlifting and the Nuuanu Y was one of the best-equipped centers for this sport. Hq'boosted amateur boxing and he had a staff which included Kazuo Yoshioka, who even today is considered one of the best* coaches in the • Territory.^ Manny Townsend, Ray Maruko, Paul Ishimoto and others got their" start at the Y. On Sundays “Pop” was busy helping with church activities, especially the First Chinese Community Church, of ' which he was a member. Today "Pop” holds down a job with the Rex Tire Company and “Ma” is librarian at lolani School. Hei is still around helping at the athletic events and doing his bit in community projects. Twenty years of his life were dedicated to the work of youth. What other qualifi cations do you need for the job of secretary of the Boxing Commission? The people might well send in to the Commission' the name of Henry Oscar “Pop” Pfaender for consideration, although we are pretty HAYMARKET RIOT—This early engraving shows police at Haymarket Square in May 1886, attacking sure “Pop” will not accept, because, as he put it: “I'm no politician, ,. some of the 65,000 Chicago strikers who demonstrated for the 8-hour day. Leaders of the strike were ar and when I stretch my hand for a handshake I have nothing in it, but . rested and framed on bomb-throwing charges .but the fight for a shorter workday was eventually won. plenty in my heart!” Thursday, September 1, 1949 ‘ HONOLULU RECORD Page Seven
LOOKING BACKWARD LOCAL GIRL (from page 8) (from page 1) and dance halls that discriminate tionalities. And due to this, until the day we left the jail, here?” he was .asked. LABOR ROUNDUP we did not even once eat the prison fare. . "I've heard about them,” he said. I took advantage of this opportunity to devote myself “I just don’t go In those places. to study, by reading, which until now I had neglected, being I don’t want to make trouble, but BOTH PARTIES PESSIMISTIC . especially pressed for leisure during the past two or three a thing like this is different.” Rolling into its fifth month, this is the way the longshore strike Neighbors' Hostile looks: ' years. I used this as a means to forget, for a time, the sjck The atmosphere at Sharon’s w--i-f e --a-n--d —m y --c-h--i-l-d--r-e--n I had left at home. From office and apartment, had grown so hostile • Negotiations will move to New York next Wednesday, Sept. 7, ■ home I requested; various books, and when I left jail these before she moved, that, she says, following acceptance by both industry and union of Cyrns Ching’s third offer to move away -frpm the Hawaiian scene in an effort to constituted a substantial stack. Tasaka 'and Negoro became "the neighbors, stayed up for me settle the dispute. < 'weakened, from frequent stomach ailments, but Makino j^^rith*”16 to 866 Th° 1 came and l, fortunately, were always in—good—health.. - - -—- _T_hee attitude o_f the apartmen_t pessimism. k I well remember a fellow prisoner of that time, -one manager, Mrs. Olivia Tai, was W
Industry acceptance was made on the gloomy'note that “unless 1 Heigo Fuchino. He also had. been, a confederate in the strike. "very hostile,” Sharon says, when He was proficient in surveying and said he wanted to go she told the girl to move out with the union comes-down into a reasonable area-. ... there is no more in 10 days. Because they feared promise of an end to the strike in New York than there is in Hawaii.” to college. I recall that I strongly urged him to do so and the neighbors might attempt some On the other hand, union acceptance was prefaced with the state exhorted him to use this opportunity to study English with physical action, against Sharon, ment that the union “is nevertheless convinced that the adamant all his might. her friends, Mr. and Mrs. Robert attitude of the employers, supported by the strike-breaking activities There were all kinds of people among the prisoners of Fames, went along when she of the Territorial government, will probably prevent a settlement being different nationalities in the jail. There was one old Japa moved. reached.” “Hostile!” says Mrs. Fames. nese man, whose name I have forgotten, who had been “The atmosphere was so hostile The suggestion for moving of negotiations to Washington followed arrested for theft, An old offender he had already been yon could have cut it with a knife a fruitless 35-miriute : bargaining session between the two parties on imprisoned two or three times for the same thing, and and served it.” Tuesday. he was well known to the jail guards. They said that this . Later, a policeman who had O ILWU attorneys are continuing their testimony before federal known Sharon, told her that he judges McLaughlin and Metzger in a preliminary injunction hearing time', also, he had been apprehended nt the fish market had visited the apartment several on Act 2, following the issuance- on Monday of a restraining order* while making away with a bunch of vegetables.. times each night before she moved covering Territorial moves under the act. He did this not because he was without money, but to make sure none of the neighbors Harry Bridges, ILWU president, is expected to complete testimony because stealing seemed good fun. He seemed a good-na attempted any violence. Thursday to prove union allegation of irreparable damage; to the tured old man and not especially bad. Helped By Jobless Couple Though they are also unem union as a result of the enforcement of Act 2. . There was a Chinese imprisoned for smoking opium. ployed, the young Fames couple Meanwhile, the Territory has asked for a production of the records When he did not smoke opium he was as completely pros has invited Sharon to--live with . of the local covering the dispute. trated as a corpse. But when the doctor came and gave them on their small houseboat on The ILWU head on Wednesday traced h£ trade union experience him a small quantity of opium, his spirits revived and he the Ala Wai Canal. While Bob for the court; also indicated why Act 2 tipped the scale in favor of became cheerful. and Lois Fames look for jobs at the employers. ------" I thought it was a question whether- such persons must • nearly anything, Sharon joins in effect, the restraint issued Monday keeps the ILWU complaint them. in the federal court on the basis, that the complaint is a proper ques- - be treated as criminals, and whether they must be impris "It’s been some time since I tion for that court to decide; it restrains the Territory from paying oned. worked at it,” she says, "but I any of the profits from the operations to the seven struck companies used to type from 60 to 70 words during the life of the order, but does not restrain it from operating CROZIER REJECTS BROWN’S OFFER a minute and could do shorthand the docks; it restrains the attorney general from proceeding on any again if I brushed up.” of the suits filed against the union thus far (these are in the circuit (from page 1) the former contractor owns. Sharon’s looking for a job, but court presided over by Judge: Edward Towse) and prevents him from'. / ing. He asked me again, ‘Why _ “Brown raised an interesting ■ the employer will have to be some ; 'filing any* new law suits against the union; it restrains the Territory picket?”’ Crozier said. question,” Crozier remarked. “He one who doesn’t object to the fact from denying any federal rights to the ILWU in the way of. publicizing “Browii then read me a section said he could not understand that she spends her own time in their feelings against the law, from picketing or other rights connected in the Territorial statutes about why the bank had been so inter the company of Sergeant Summers. ested to get into and. take over Both Sharon and the sergeant to the present labor dispute. starting a bank run and the penal The union is seeking damages from the defendants (the governor, ty involved. I told Brown, ‘Look, the job.” ' seem pretty firm about that. “Shouldn’t the bank examiner ----r------J—— the 39 legislators, the board of harbor commissioners, the attorney did you invite me here for infor- general) and is declaring the act unconstitutional. ..mation or. to lecture me?’ ” and the Territorial treasurer in vestigate into this? Why did the • Meanwhile, on the food situation,, the governor’s emergency Won’t Settle Out of Court. bank go into contracting when it Consumers Potluck * food committee is still “mum” on the request-for. a relief ship despite Brown, Crozier said; then sug did hot know beans about it and the shortage of certain items of foodstuffs. ' ' gested that the Bank of Hawaii ■ lost money?” Crozier said he asked DDT A POISON? and Crozier get together and set Brown. - * To be sure, DDT is a poison- but Matson Navigation Co. on the West Coast has turned down a tle the litigation. -The Territorial The former contractor said he jus”t h’ ow m’ u•c h o- f one no o’ ne" is union offer for use of the Hawaiian-Refiner as-relief ship and the official wanted to call H. Baird pointed out that the duty of the quite sure as yet. Department of American President Lines has indicated that'its ships will not act as Kidwell, attorney for the bank,, if bank examiner is to protect the Agriculture bulletins warn against relief vessels. Crozier, would get his lawyer O. P. depositors. He said the examiner leaving.stores of'DDT where chil However, high government officials persist in their contention that . Soares. Crozier answered that he and 'the treasurer had not carried dren or pets can get at them. They ■ the ports of the Territory are open. .and his lawyer would not settle opt their duties and were partial warn against inhaling it—effects .out of court.•' to the bank. may bAe lasting. I,,f Za n oil-DDT TOUCH MINOR LANGUAGE CHANGES ONLY The Crozier-bank dispute start “Yes, why did the bank go into spray is used, the body should be . led, according to the businessman, the contracting business? Brown carefully washed immediately aft- Elsewhere on the labor scene, the cooling off period continues in when the Bank of Hawaii “moved raised an interesting question. And erwards. , DDT kills some kinds of the HRT-Transit Workers Union dispute, with an additional extension in and took over the contract” of ’ how did it take away my con fish. And. all government bulle- of 15 days to the governor’s mediators to continue their fact finding. . the Hana Belt Road from Qrozier. tract? That’s more interesting. tins warn td use any DDT or oth- C“h ai' rman H“a rold -L oper i..n..d..i.c..a..t.e.d" "th at..! m. eetings .w...i.t.h .b oth pa.r.t..ies^ The manager of the bank on Maui I’m. interested to see Brown now er insecticide solution as sparingly will continue up to Sept. 14. became a receiver, Crozier was re playing the role of a negotiator as possible. There is little indication, however, that any solution to the dis- ' moved from the job, the contract to settle this whole mess quietly. Consumers Union has for some pute will be found as the most important issues before the board lost money and the equipment is My story is the story of many • time been calling attention to (wages, hours, other working conditions) were left unresolved during today-worth, only a small fraction contractors and small businessmen • the dangers in DDT. It believes the period of mediation. .. of its original cost through misuse who are squeezed out by the mono that acute poisoning can occur Company representatives have consistently refused any wage in and negli'gence, Crozier said. The polies here in the islands and I in human beings because of DDT crease or radical modification of working conditions. . bank has attached “everything” intend to fight to the finish.” exposure. There is also danger of chronic poisoning from the Points agreed to in the mediation process were confined primarily repeated ingestion of very to minor language changes. ■ JppJp 'Sp Kauai Pensioner Lives On $6.39 small amounts. (from page ' 1) adequate. . There is a case of a As a result of articles by Albert UNIONS TO PARADE SEPARATELY units over a year ago. The other man with seven children receiv- Deutsch in the newspaper PM last Organized labor iii the Territory will march again this year on is the pension system. ■ ■ ing $42.30 a ’month. .Deductions year, the Department of Agricul When the merger was in process, amount to more’than $22, and in Labor Day, but separately.. ture ordered DDT manufacturers CIO unions have planned their parade for 10 o’clock, gathering - more than 100 workers were laid the next few years, when two of to stop recommending their prod off. Some were'pensioned but the his children become 16,, another at lolani Palace, then ending in a picnic at the Ala Moana Park for uct for use on dairy animals, in the families of union members. ■ ■ < ■ : majority of them were young men. $10 will be deducted. A daughter dairy barns, or on fodder. - Grove Farm, as the new com- w—ho wor'k s for income out.s.i.de sup There is now evidence that ani- There is a possibility that Harry Bridges, ILWU president, .will pany was called, commenced hir plements the pension. mals that eat DDT-sprayed take part "in-the day’s activities. 'dT/.f ';. 0^ ing workers after the merger was Near Lihue a worker pointed plants deposit DDT in their tis AFL’ers will march to Thomas Square where invited speakers and completed. But up to now, only out a. retired lima who gets $15 sues. The DDT can reach the AFL leaders will address the group. a small’ fraction have been se a month pension, saying: "That table either in milk or in beef. AFL activities will culminate in a street dance on Richards St. lected from the pro-union young Ilina only gets a "small pension No one yet knows how dangerous men. because he never kicked the men. this sort of constant exposure may . In 1820 half the factory workers . Among -those hired at Grove Other lunas who kicked, boxed 'be. ■ in the O. S. were boys and girls Farm, a premium is placed on and swore at us all day—they Newer insecticides are no safer, from nine to 10 years old who Aloha to Labor scabs and would-be strike break -get-good pensions when they quit chiefly because they, likewise have worked 12 to 13 hours a day for ers. Applicants for work were work.” not yet been thoroughly tested. wages ranging from 33 cents to D. asked if they would respect an NL Okumoto, D.S. The . union, is processing com The old standby^ says CU, a com 67'cents a week. ILWU picket line if they were bination of. pyrethiris and rotenone wishes to announce his employed- by the plantation. plaints from pensioners, and is pushing its program to textend —is perhaps the only insecticide new location for the -. Such a hiring practice has suc which is harmless to human beings ceeded to some extent- in weaken-. and strengthen the pension Translation General Practice of- system. ■ ■ even if small quantities are in JAPANESE INTO ENGLISH Dentistry' above the - ing union -support, fori it is, ac- gested. ' ' 7. companied by the company method “The old days, we don't wapt AND VICE VERSA of eliminating certain jobs as un them again,” commented, the - Pot Luck is a digest of articles Ben Franklin necessary. Some union men tend worker who said brutal lunas re appearing in Consumer . Reports, K. Toi,B. A.,M.A. to "go easy’.’rather than risk elim ceived bigger pensions. the monthly magazine published Building ination of their jobs. by Consumers' Union, 38 E. First Former professor of Waialae & Koko Head Aves. Ridiculously Inadequate “I believe now, as I have all St., New York 3, NZ Y, available Tenri Oirls’ College, Japan Room 201 Phone 77322 The other, sore point, the pen- my life, in the right of workers by individual subscription at $5 Office:' Nakamura Hotel ; sion system-, ;is constantly in to join unions .and to protect a year. Product ratings are based 216 N. Beretania St. (Formerly located at vestigated' by- union representa- their unions.” on samples purchased by CU In PHONE- 56606 3624 Waialae Ave.) - tlves. Pensions are ridiculously In (F.D.R., May 2, 1943.) the open market. .j HONOLULU RECORD hank-ly speaking . Koji Ariyoshi . . . Editor By FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS Published every Thursday by ' HONOLULU RECORD PUBLISHING CO., LTD. “DEMOCRACY IS INDIVISIBLE” 811 Sheridan Street, Honolulu, T. H. An amazingly large number of Negroes have observed that the forces Who shout loudest about ■ the Communist menace are the same forces who Phone 96445 won’t extend equal rights to minority groups. They realize also that if the civil rights of Commqnists SUBSCRIPTION RATES: - can be taken away in complete defiance of . the ® V year (Oahu) ...... —— $5.00 Federal Constitution, then 1 year_(O therlslands).—.__ —...... ------SG;00 —it will be much easier^ to_ —Includes Airmailing— grab back those demo cratic rights that minor -1 year (Mainland) _____ ...... $5.00 ity groups haye won - through’ long and pain ful struggle. It has also been asked LABOR, BAY, 1949 how the U. S. expects to rule Russia when the A short step at a time covers a long dis • federal government can’t tance over a period of years; such has been rule Mississippi. Some the course of Hawaii’s working people. cynics have suggested that the reason for the DAVIS In the adjoining column under the head . scarcity o f democnacy ing of Looking Backward, we are running a throughout the Mainland comes from the amount series on the 1909 strike, bringing back .to I we have exported to Greece and Turkey. t This is why many Negroes' have bcome quite mind the hard struggles of Hawaii’s plan vocal (about the lengthy trial of the 12 Commu- tation laborers to better their livelihood ; nist leaders that has been going on for some time from coolie conditions. . in New York. This, and the fact that two of the defendants are Negroes—New York City Council In the early days, strikes met with defeat man Ben Davis and Henry Winston. The racial very frequently, for while the employers ties to these defendants, who have struggled' long were well organized, the laborers were not. against white supremacy, have created addition Furthermore, the plantations imported la al sentiment among America’s largest minority borers from various countries and played in favor of the Communists. , In July the California’ Eagle, published in Los one nationality group against another. . Angeles, and one of the nation’s most influential Under such conditions, the. Japanese Negro newspapers, carried a half-page advertise ment under the heading: “Democracy is Indivisi were pitted against the Chinese and the ble.” Called “a statement by Negro leaders to the Filipinos against the Japanese, etc. Today, President and attorney general of the United States these conditions still prevail but through on the trial of the 12 Communist leaders,” it was the efforts of the unions, the workers who signed by doctors, lawyers, ministers, writers, civic 1 were once segregated are becoming more workers and labor leaders. and more united. Still there are the Filipino Here is part of what they said: STRIKE LEADERS IN JAIL-4909 “Today, terror and violence are being directed camps and the Japanese camps, and box against the Negro people throughout the land. The like shucks where Filipino plantation la , Ed. Note: This article is taken from a long series, Looking Backward 50 Years In Hawaii, by Yasutaro Soga, former editor Ku Klux Klan adds new victims to the thousands borers live, but in newer camps we are en ofthe Nippu Jiji (now called The Hawaii Times). The series ap of Negroes who have met violent death in America couraged to find all laborers living side by peared in the Japanese language section of the Hawaii Times. at the hands of lynch mobs. Police brutality side. • Translation is by Take and Allan Beekman. against Negroes is growing at an alarming pace. “Legal. lynching is increasingly the practice As our Labor Day issue goes to press, we of the courts as in the. case of the ‘Trenton Six’ look back over the-years—to the days of Previous installments have described the devious methods used and the ‘Virginia Seven.’. Negro'postal employes snake whips and brutal Innas of our par by the Hawaiian" Sugar Planters’ Association and the Territorial and Negro and white federal workers—who have authorities to break the 1909 strike. Finally the workers—unor actively fought against these injustices are being ents ; the immigrant contract laborers who ganized, lacking Territory-wide solidarity and without political in discharged under the President’s so-called ‘loy- * drank soy sauce to start a fever to escape, fluence—went back to work. The arrest of supporters and leaders alty program.’ Mrs. Rosa' Ingram: and her young even for a day, the inhuman demands of of the strike on charges of conspiracy to’ boycott plantation business, sons are rotting away in prison because they dared field work; the desertions from planta their trial and conviction, were hard blows to the strikers. Inter resist violence from a Southern planter. estingly, the strike leaders of that period were newspaper editors, “While allowing those guilty of violent acts to tions; the defeated strikes; the frame-ups professional, men and small businessmen. of strike leaders; the early union organiz go free; our government is now trying 12 national ing drives; the blacklist; the Bloody Mon leaders of the Communist party. Among them are On March 20, 1910, after the final decision of the Ter two of our brothers. They- are Honorable Benja day shooting in Hilo; the transit workers’ min J. Davis, Communist member of the city coun lockout after the war; the extended ritorial Supreme Court, we four, Makino, Negoro, Tasaka cil of New York, and Henry Winston, youthful vet growth of unionism; the victorious sugar and I, were committed to Oahu Jail, in Iwilei. We were re-. eran of World. War H, who holds one of the three strike of 1946; the Olaa lockout of 1948, and Signed to treading the thorny path, but when we first leading posts in the Communist party nationally. changed to prison garb we were assailed by an indescribable “Three of the defendants are now in jail for to the present 120-day-old waterfront their refusal to act as stool-pigeons for the prose- . strike^ feeling of loneliness. .. At that time, also, Oahu Jail was an extremely anti cution. Among these is Henry Winston, who was Measured over the years, the gains of jailed for the duration of the trial by the judge quated jail; the building was old,' dirty and unsanitary. (when he arose to protest the prosecutor’s demand the laboring people of Hawaii are extensive. In the cells wd occupied, in solitary confinement, there was for the names of Communists and Progressives in These gains are enjoyed by all, for im only one old bed and nothing else; during the night a bucket the South, which would lead to a wave .of hysteria proved industrial relations in one industry took the place of a chamber pot. against his own people. or on one plantation influence the condi The door had a small window but, from the electric “But the government has not charged these tions in others. Numerous people who par men with one single overt act. These-persons have light in the corridor, only a little light entered. Reading been placed on trial for their political beliefs and ticipated in and made contributions to the wag-permitted; but during the night it was just barely pos ideas, an action which is unconstitutional and labor movement of the early period are sible to read by. standing beside the door-window. Each unprecedented, in the history of America. today merchants and professional people, time the jail guard changed they peeped in from there. “The Commiinist party has a long record of but they are enjoying the fruits of their Originally we could not go outside the room excepting vigorous advocacy and struggle for the demo struggles. For as the livelihood of the work for the three daily meals. This was not sufficient to sustain cratic rights of Negro citizens. We feel that this ers improves, that much more the commu fact is not unrelated to the current persecution a person’s health. of its leaders. We raise here no defense of the ’ nity prospers. In this place was a tradition that those who observed principles of the Communist party. We repre Taken in a vast scope, Labor Day has the jail rules, and did some kind of! jail work, were permit sent many and varied political beliefs and affilia ted to go out in the jail yard from 5 o’clock in the morning tions. We are concerned, however, with the right important meaning. It is not merely pa to hold different political beliefs—the .right of rades and entertainments, but a monu until’ 5 o’clock in the evening. So we speedily volunteered every man to think for himself. mental day marking the march of labor for various jobs. Makino took up duties in the jail store. “Negro Americans are concerned about the grow from year to year. Negoro polished all the brass in the place. Tasaka weeded ing attacks upon their rights, but they are also in the prison garden. I cleaned the office of the head jailer. anxious about the growing assaults upon the liber All this is not a happy picture for Ha It was not much of a job and it was finished in two or ties of many other groups—political parties,' civil waii’s big employers who have pursued the three hours of work. And afterwards we were allowed to. rights organizations, teachers, federal workers, jungle law of divide and rule. The working actors, writers and foreign-born. Anyone who...... people are progressively learning the neces read or do as we pleased. We were greatly relieved that dares to think for himself and to say what he thinks sity of solidarity. But there is need for Head Jailer Asch, especially, and the jail guards as well, is in danger of being fired from his job, branded greater unity. This year there will be two treated us sympathetically from the first. as a Communist subversive, and thrown in jail, j In jail the food was principally poi, salmon, beef and “Freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights Labor Day parades here, that of the AFL pork. We were somewhat troubled that we were to have are now, once more, in serious danger. There is and that of the CIO. This sort of division this, from now, for almost a year. no hope for Negro freedom if the liberties of our makes possible the sailing from Hawaii of But from the day we entered jail until the day we left, country arc now snuffed out behind anti-Commu strike-bound ships and Mainland unload nist hysteria. 1 ing by certain AFL unions. / the prefectural assistance societies, together with other sym "If the freedom of Davis and Winston can be pathizers, brought us three meals every day. They had taken away today, the gains we have made in our Whether the next step by labor be short special permission from the head jailer to send this in to battle for.full equality will be taken away tomorrow. or long, we hope it brings unity among the us. These daily feasts were truly more than-we deserved. ■ "We therefore call upon you to stop this uncon- “ workers. Division plays into the bosses’ Each time we divided this up among prisoners of other na- stltutional prosecution of Benjamin Davis, Henry hands. (more on page 7) (more on page 3)