AMA’S “LILY WHITE” CLAUSE IGNORED -OKA Of HAM • • Page Five ^The Newspaper Hawaii Needs HONOLULU.RtCORD. 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 <em­ Balch, Nobel peace prize winner in 1946, were more than impressive. What the Justice 72.4 per cent of the assets in the distilled ployes and the retirement of 12,000 reserve Dr. Thomas Mann and others. Department would do with the information liquors industry. Together with five other officer^.