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Vol. 2, No. 41 SINGLE COPY, 10 CENTS Thursday, May 11, 1950 Beaten, Framed, Vet Claims Three Vice Squad Farrington Gets Mau, Nielsen to $50,000Mothbalied as Kona Lead T.H. Demos Men Accused in Boost, Rices Hit After Lau Ah Chew, chairman of the Democratic Central Com­ School Buys Greenwell Water mittee from 1948-50 announced Smith St Fracas recurrent drought in this West At Aala Rally that he would not be a candidate KONA, HAWAII—A 1947 legis­ for re-election, newly elected mem­ “You think you’re smart!” lative appropriation of $50,000 for Hawaii district. “A billion dollars can do a lot bers chose a new list of party of- Those were the last words water storage tanks at Konawa­ Recently vthe people of Kona for the unemployed here,” William heard, says Andrew (Moose) Wat­ ena High School has been moth­ asked government help to get ade­ H. Crozier, Jr., told an unemployed kins, Negro veteran of more than balled in a Hilo bank-while the quate water the year round, but rally at Aala Park Sunday night four years service in World War cry for water gets louder during when $50,000 earmarked for water in referring to Delegate Joseph H, before three officers of the vice supply at the distant high school Farrington’s statement in Wash­ squad began to beat him with their can gather dust for three years, ington, asking statehood now or fists, April 29, about 8:30 p. m.. at “Moncado Drive” there is something terribly wrong. a billion dollars in tax refund to 1182 Smith St. ‘ About $1,200 for Water the people of Hawaii. “I hadn't said anything at all,” This was the opinion of some A resolution supporting Far­ says Watkins. "They just came in Is FFA Petition who know about the appropriation rington's position was submitted and grabbed me.” and who swear under their breath to the rally under the signatures “Skin-Popping” Suspected. To Mayor Wilson when the rainy season comes and of Joseph Capsin, E. A Brenner At the time, says Watkins, he hundreds of thousands of gallons and Crozier. The resolution which didn't know why the vice squad Another plan for the return to said “Taxation without represen­ Hawaii ..by_ “Five-Star General" of. water flow 'off the roofs—into men had come into the building. the ground. tation is Tyranny,” was unani­ Much later he heard they had ar­ HUario C. Moncado was divulged Interestingly, Konawaena buys mously passed by an audience of rested a man with a pistol else­ this week following a petition the about 250 who found shelter under "general's” followers sent to the about $1,200 worth of water-every where who had complained that year, from the Greenwells, big trees and adjacent buildings while ; the police should be paying more city-county government to -have landowning family engaged in rain poured during- a greater part attention to a “skin-popping party” the name of Kalaepaa Drive of the four-hour meeting. changed to “Moncado Drive.” The ranching. he said was in a room on the same- petition was accompanied by a let­ “Why isn’t the county board “Really Desperate”' floor as Watkins’' room. “Skin- ter signed by Alfonz C. Cubico, of supervisors using the money Commenting on the audience, popping” is an underworld term to build tanks? - Who is respon­ an observer said, “The unemployed for injections of heroin. •“Territorial Spiritual Director” of Watkins says Officers Paul Shai- the Filipino Federation of America sible for the stalling?” must be really desperate to stick The $50,000 'appropriation was it out under this’ weather.” fer, Alfred Souza and a third who- which was founded by Moncado. MK. MAU may have been Allan Taylor; beat “He may come back in July,” given Kona as a result of. Rep. Sponsored by E. A Taok, busi­ Earl A Nielsen’s effort In the 1947 nessman, the rally was held to him with -their ( fists: and: kicked Cubico told the RECORD, “but fleers at a meeting Tuesday night. him in the stomach until the pain you'd better call the other office legislature. ■ . (more on page 3) New chairman is Chuck Mau, law­ Need Band forced him to flee. Then they for the exact time. They never yer, at present on-the Mainland chased him Into another room, tell me these things.” Water tanks for Konawaena with the mission which pushed for would require from a half to an statehood in the recent Washing­ he says, pulled him into the hall, In the absence of B. O. JSscobido, acre of land which is not available ton hearings. beat him again until he fell to Executive Director of the FFA, an­ on the campus. Mrs. Maud Green­ Diamond Head the floor, pulled him up and other spokesman at the “other” Other officers are: Vice chair­ dragged him to the stairs before well owns the property adjoining man, Earl A Nielsen, Kona, Ha­ office, in the Watamull Bldg., said: the school-campus and there are they arrested him.: “He may not come back in July, waii; secretary, David Benz, Ho­ The raiding party consistedof reports that the county dickered Crater Scene of nolulu; treasurer, Gorman Noland, though. It isn’t official yet. You with her for a piece- of land. It seven, Watkins says,' and the re­ can write whatever you want to, is also reported that the Green­ Honolulu. • maining four stood and watched but it’s unofficial.” wells favored a land trade. Payoff Grilling The national committeeman, while he was beaten. - Cubico’s letter says that, since “Why doesn’t the county con- chosen to fill the vacancy de- “They searched me after they By STAFF WRITER (more on page 7). (more on page 3) (more on page 6) (more on page 7) The crater at Diamond Head, ac­ cording to report, has figured as a locale for questioning by police of persons they believe may be im­ 1,000-Acre Argument Enters plicated in the alleged 15 per cent Filipino Boy in Cal. Weeps payoffs to some police officers, told first in the RECORD of April 20. Three men, it is believed, were Fight on Hawaii Homes Com. picked up separately on the night At Inability to Return Here of May 1 and taken to the crater Why is there so little mention give the Hawaiian “common peo­ where they were questioned exten­ A hint that Filipino labor re- farms of California was given this of the 1,000-acre. clause, even by ple” land they were promised as sively and subjected to mild forms ■cruited here may be used as strike­ week by Catalino Cuizon, who re­ those who wish to abolish the Ha­ far back as the “Great Maheie,” of violence. breakers or scabs on the vegetable turned a little more than two weeks waii Homes Commiaeinn? or divisionof land, under the Ha­ The questions asked are believed ago after: quitting his job on an Because, say proponents of the waiian monarchy in 1847. to have followed closely the evi­ asparagus farm near Stockton. HuC, the last thing the big land­ The last strong opponent of dence mentioned in the RECORD Jury's Hope False :“I heard of big trouble and leasers want is to revert to the the establishment of the com­ as having been given after a faH- ’ fighting,” he told the RECORD. terms of the Organic Act, which mission in 1921 was the Parker . ing-out among fleecers following a Cuizon thinks it quite • probable forbade anyone a lease of more Ranch. Attorney George Mc­ Kauai operation. Further indica­ In Kageyama Case? that “contractors” who are pres­ than 1,000 acres. Clellan, representing the ranch, tions were that the information, While the grand jury deliberates ently recruiting Filipino labor in “Yon can imagine,” says one argued that' the Hawalians are a described in the RECORD’S April the plausibility of pursuing a pos­ Hawaii intend to hire them out to proponent, “what that would do “dying race" and that there was 20 story as having been given by a sible indictment of Supervisor farming combines who wish to use to the big companies. They (more on page 6) boy who had been arrested, was Richard Kageyama, further, nimor them as. a forcc_tP-lower the wages would, have to set-up - dummy actually known to ’the police ear­ has' i£ that questioning of 13 wit­ of Tegular workers. corporations, one for every 1,000 lier, and that the questions asked nesses who were "unfriendly" in Many Wish To Return acres, and each corporation the boy were largely for the pin- their appearances before the un- The recent returnee said he would have to pay the Territorial Consul Quitoriano pose of eliciting confirmations. American Activities Committee has worked long enough on the as­ 2 • per cent tax. It would really Because the Diamond Head brought results somewhat differ­ paragus farm to get dissatisfied run them ragged.” Reassigned to Calif. crater questionings are alleged ent from what the grand jury ex­ with the work, the prices he had Passage of a law which removed to have been conducted by de­ pected. to pay for: food arid: commodities, the 1,000-acre limit was made con­ Consul Aurelio Quitoriano of the tectives, those who know of them Philippines Consulate General in It is ■ believed that the grand and the wages he received. Since ditional “Upon passage of the law say they are quite likely to be jury hoped that the ““unfriendly” he had enough money to buy- pas­ creating (ho nnC, tbp commis-. Honolulu will be leaving shortly to followed by grand jury sub- -serve at .the, San Francisco office witnesses would be so irritated sage - back to Hawaii, he did so son's friends say, and if the^coiir- - poenas and indictments. . because Kageyama named them in and’ he says .njany of- the men he mission is to be abolished, the of his government, the RECORD According to those who have was reliably informed. ■ ■ his own testimony before the ebri- ' worked with would have come if 1,000-acre restriction should also followed such practices, the payoffs gressional committee . that they ? they had the money. be re-enacted. “Tve received no notice. It’s a are carried out in a nnrrrber of might, in turn, name him. Kuhio’s Rarga.in rumor that I have heard, too,” Mr. ways. One of the most common is “But how can they have the . Although witnesses who ap­ money?” he Asked rhetorically. Prince David Kuhio, aa rjRlegaf.p Quitoriano commented, to have them made by the illegal peared: have steadfastly refused, opposed removal of the 1,000-acre operator to the police officer in “With the prices they have to A consulate source said in a few to answer all questions about their . pay, they must spend their mon­ limit, the commission’s friends say,- weeks Mr. Quitoriano’s children question through a third party. grand jury appearance, the REC­ and only agreed to support it aft­ win be out of school and prepara­ “That way,” says a man who ORD has learned on fairly relia­ ey.” er the sugar interests had also tions for departure will-Be made has known Honolulu’s under­ ble authority that the grand jury’s 'When Cuizon told his friends agreed to the founding of the Official orders have arrived, the world for many years, “it doesn’t theory did not (produce ' any im­ among the Filipino workers that ha commission as a partial effort to RECORD was told by the source. (more on page 7) portant results. (more on page 7) Page Two HONOLULU RECORD May 11, 1950 Demanded Rieve: If these workers can- Boyle and Kroll Differ . not find Jobs now, "where will we be when As Sen. Claude Pepper lost by a G0.O00- we stop pumping billions of dollars a year vote margin, with two-thirds of a million National Summary into our economy through our armament votes cast in Florida, to his one-time pro­ program and our foreign aid program?” hope that the Congress, during its present tege, Rep. George A. Smathers, Directof term. In campaigning against a Dixiecrat PART OF “OUR PRESENT surplus is session? will enact legislation granting Jack Kroll.of CIO-PAC remarked: state, Hill called for support of his more due to the inability of Americans to buy “THE TUESDAY primaries are a grim orthodox Democratic group on the ground statehood to Alaska and Hawaii. all they need or want," Rieve explained. warning to the.American people.” that^they could exert more influence in “There is no necessity for me to repeat To correct this situation, he favored giving On the record. Pepper was a clear choice Washington to beat off civil rights bills. at this time the arguments for statehood. the surplus away rather than buying for­ for labor and any liberals or progressives. Hill’s election was important to the Na­ The many qualified witnesses who have eign goods “at the cost of unemployment at Els voting record was uniformly excellent tional Democratic Party because he repre­ appeared before your committee have, I home.” for 14 years. Smathers’ record was at best, sented the pro-Truman faction as against am sure, presented convincing evidence spotty and on major issues, bad. Thus both as to the need for and the tangible The membership did not hear an en­ while he voted right on an issue like rent the State's Righters in the Dixiecrat South. benefits to be derived from statehood.” couraging speech, telling them what they control, he voted to override the President’s The State’s Righters had seceded from the national party’ during the 1948 presidential Key witnesses from Hawaii who ap­ can do so that Americans can buy “all they Taft-Hartley veto. He also voted wrong need or want.” Surplus dumping was no race. peared before the committee were hopeful on minimum wages. of statehood during this session, but the solution. A few days before the elections, a pro­ fight ahead was tough and far from won. labor Republican, walking past the Senate Statehood Delegate Farrington commented that More Milk and Meat caucus room where Owen Lattimore was As the statehood hearings ended last chances of statehood had reached an all- U. S. farmers are using 35,000,000 acres trying to shake off the smear charges of week, five of the 13 members of the Senate time high. Spp Joseph McCarthy, had remarked, .with Interior and Insular Affairs Committee said of land to produce “surplus" crops, sub­ a gesture toward the room: they were for immediate statehood. The sidized by the government's price support hearings had won three more Senators to Give-Away Plan program. After the harvest the products “If they beat Claude, that’s where it will President Emil Rieve of the . Textile are stored in caves, warehouses and bins. be done.” the side of statehood. . A UNITED PRESS survey showed that Workers Union (CIO) showed concern over THIS WEEK, U. S. agriculture depart­ tht: REPUBLICAN was referring to the growing unemployment in times of high ment officials said if an average American violent red-baiting attack on Pepper which five among the 13 were for statehood, five non-committal but open-minded, and one productivity and high profits. To 2,000 ate 10 more pounds of meat a year and was the basis of Smathers’ campaign. Pep­ delegates attending the sixth biennial con­ drank 20 additional quarts of milk, tons per had other handicaps, but the witch­ against. Two were not contacted because they were out of town. ------vention last week, he offered a. solution--' and tons of surplus food products need not hunt hysteria, President Truman’s loyalty which he had not worked “out in detail” be put away for storage. Their suggestion oath taken to the extreme, emerged as the Those who said they would vote for statehood were: James .Murray of Mon­ RI EVE’S GENERAL PLAN was this: was this: Turn-the 35,000,000 acres into main one. That the U. S. give away surplus goods rath­ pasture land for hay production to get the It was known that big business Demo­ tana (D), Herbert Lehman of New York (D)-, Glen Taylor of Idaho (D), Guy’. Cor­ er than accept Imports which bring unem­ extra 10 pounds of meat and 20 quarts of cratic money -from the north was used ployment to American workers. He squint­ milk for an average American. against Pepper. He was accused of not don of. Oregon (R) ’ and Zales Ecton of Montana (R). ed at tlie specter of unemployment in for­ While the officials talked of “eating Hmng a racist—worst crime in the Dixiecrat eign countries, which wanted U. 8. dollars The non-committal list included some habits" which need to be changed, the rule book. through trade and were hanging on to what­ stumbling block was something more basic. Democratic Chairman William M Boyle, of the most influential members of the ever dollars they had. Dumping of* U. S. What the ..average American needed’ was Jr., in cnm men ting on the Florida primaries, committee. They are Democrats Joseph goods means unemployment in Marshall more income. seht congratulatory wires to both Pepper O’Mahoney of Wyoming, Clinton Ander­ Plan countries and stymieing of native in­ son of New Mexico and Ernest McFarland NOT LONG AGO Secretary of Agricul­ nnd his victorious opponent. Boyle praised . dustries. But Rieve was more interested ture. Brannan said that, actually the U, S. Pepper’s sportsmanship and said he looked of Arizona'; Republicans Hugh Butler of in jobs for his membership. Nebraska and Eugene Millikin of Colorado. had no surplus. If the income of an aver­ forward to a continuation of Smathers Naming textile centers, where workers President Truman came out strongly for age American is raised, what is called “sur­ ■Tirp service to your state and the nation can’t find “honest work at decent wages,” plus” and stored away by the government you have rendered in Washington.” Hawaiian and Alaskan statehood in a let­ Rieve said he was disgusted, with statements ^through the price support program would BOYLE ALSO, congratulated Sen. Lister ter to Chairman O’Mahoney of the Senate from Washington “by our friends as well committee. be consumed. His conclusion: The average ■mil for winning the Alabama Democratic as our enemies” that the country was “in person was not eating enough in the land? primary which assured Hill another Senate SAID THE PRESIDENT: “I sincerely fine shape-the way it is.” of plenty.

a trip to plan the strategy of the western Retaliation bloc in the cold war. In Sydney, Australia, the U. S. consulate general refused transit visa through Ha­ [ World Summary j The uneasiness in France was based on waii to Eliot V. Elliot, federal secretary of Germany’s historical conduct. plus the fact that reports have been current tha-t Nazism the Australian Seamen’s Union, who is of a survey conducted among 4,000 em­ Some Communist leaders had spent 17-18 planning on a plane trip to Canada. 'The is re-raising its head in western Germany. ployes in 17 Tokyo factories. Among those years in prison for opposing military ag­ U. S. high commissioner in Germany, John U. S. official said Elliot cannot land in expressing opinions, 83.7 per cent were gression, until they were freed by U. S. Honolulu. J. McCloy, recently admitted Nazi activities against retention of U. S. military bases forces in 1945. and promised to. crack down on the revived, this ACTION caused a rumpus among in Japan after the peace treaty, while 7.2 Mac ARTHUR BEGAN his attack against movement. •unionists. The Sydney local of the sea­ per cent supported their continuation. On the Japanese ComfSunists when trade McCLOY, WHO arrived in Paris shortly men’s union, largest in the country, de­ the question of a peace treaty, more than unions became militant, demanded better cided to halt work on all vessels carrying 70 per cent favored an agreement -signed before Acheson, said: “No doubt Germany wages and working conditions and called will be discussed, but this is not the point U. S. government officials or U. S. govern­ by the Big Four rather than a separate for a purge of war criminals. Several major, ment-owned cargoes. pact with the U. S. and Britain, excluding where further concessions to Germany will strikes were crushed by U. S. authorities. be decided.” z the Soviet Union and China. The new demand by MacArthur invaded Scientists Speak Up MEAN WHILE, General MacArthur last Japanese civil liberties. This was a far As Acheson completed his preliminary Japanese scientists lauded the develop­ week asked the Japanese government to . departure from the right to one’s political talks in France and rushed to England, ment of atomic science but added, “The outlaw the Communist Party, which he beliefs which, in the U. S., is guaranteed French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman this week proposed that German and fact that it was used first in- war is the said is a graver threat to Japan than the to private individuals in the Bill of Rights. war lords who hurled the nation into war. French coal and steel production be-pooled. greatest shame for science and scientists.” This pool, Schuman suggested, should be A GROUP OF 100 leading' Japanese This request, which was interpreted as an scientists with memories of Hiroshima and order because of MacArthur’s position as France Uneasy open to other countries. Nagasaki still fresh in their minds looked Japan’s actual ruler, contradicted the gen-- Two wars of aggression waged by 'Ger­ Such a program would make future wars at the strained international relations with eral's statement made September 2 last many in the first half of the' 20th century between Germany and France “not only deep concern. They passed a resolution year. He then commented that the threat cause grave concern in France whenever unthinkable but impossible,” Schuman said which said in part: of Communism in Japan had to a large mention is made of re-arming Germany... in his note to the U. S. and five western , . since peace and science belong to extent, passed. PRESIDENT Vincent Auriol told an European countries. ■ the whole of mankind, we resolve to oppose, Under MacArthur’s occupation policy, audience in Rheims that France would not FRANCE had in. THE meantime, re­ despite every difficulty, warmongering, mili­ the Japanese Communists were legalized agree to militarizing the Germans in order ceived assurance of further support in its tary bases in Japan, restrictions on academ­ after the war. They were given constitu­ to “halt Communism- in Europe.” France, war against Ho Chih "Minh’s government in ic freedom and the ousting of scientists de­ tional protection. During the war, from he said, “will accept no sacrifice which will Indo-China. - fending peace.” the Manchurian Incident in 1931 to 1945 compromise her own security or that of In London, Secretary Acheson and For­ the SCIENTISTS were backed up in when Japan surrendered, the Japanese world peace.” eign Secretary Ernest Bevin met to prepare other quarters. For example, the Industrial Communists were the bitterest foes of the Auriol’s warning came just as Secretary for a Big Three conference this week, with Labor Research Institute reported the result war lords, and their big business financiers. of State Dean Acheson arrived in Paris on Schuman included.

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"A good many of those people powered to make an administrative who walked out.” says Mayor Hawaii may be paying employes less than the law requires, Henry survey of all Territorial offices, John H. Wilson, “are walking boards and commissions. The Leg­ HOW FAR afield do committee ■ back now. They’re walking back Epstein, regional director of the discussions in the Constitutional United Public Workers of America, islative Reference Bureau was des­ into my office, some of them, to ignated to conduct the survey by Convention go? In a meeting of tell me they didn’t know what last week brought the matter to the Agriculture, Conservation and. the attention of the Hawaii Board Resolution No. 19 of that commit­ they were doing.” tee. Land Committee Monday night, The “walk-backs" are only the of Supervisors. Delegate John R. Phillips who' beginning of a movement among , Citing Sec. 106 (a) of the Revised In December of 1949, question­ seemed quite impatient said to right-wing Democrats, the mayor Laws of Hawaii 1945, Epstein quot­ naires were sent to all division Chairman Herbert “Montie” Rich­ thinks, which, might well continue ed that portion which says em­ chiefs of Territorial departments ards: We “. . . . can’t legislate until there is little left of the fac­ ployes shall be paid "prevailing for completion. Tire following was cooperation.” On three occasions tion. rates for similar positions under stated on the questionnaires: “All Delegate Phillips, after listening “A lot of those ' people; just similar employment conditions in such information will be held in to long discussions on how the walked out because somebody private or federal establishments confidence by the Legislative Ref­ agricultural college should be run, waved at them, or because they where the work is performed.” erence Bureau staff and the Hold­ etc., etc., said he did not see how heard talk they didn’t think Epstein further wrote: “During over Committee.” the discussions applied to constitu­ much about,” says Wilson. “One the discussions on the Gallas Re­ Here’s the joker. When the tional matters. fellow I know very well came in port in Honolulu recently, it was questionnaire was answered by a • • • • here later and laughed and said: pointed out that the County of section chief, he had to show it to WHILE CHAIRMAN Richards “Wasn’t it a joke?’ He’11 never Hawaii has never made a study of his division chief who had to show kept the discussions . centered stay with that faction.” prevailing wages as required by it to his department head before around the agricultural college, the Oscar L. Chapman, Secretary of this law. The same statement was submitting it to the Legislative question of whether there should Interior, called him from Wash­ made by several civil service direc­ Reference Bureau. Can you see be one bureau for agriculture, ington, .Mayor Wilson says, because tors and cnmmiasioners at the con­ any constructive suggestions bom conservation and land or separate he didn’t trust other sources to ference held a few weeks ago at at the grass roots level with such departments, the question of pub­ give him a fair picture of the dis­ Maui.” a setup? Hardly—if an employe lic ownership of water got a wet­ sension among the Democrats, and out- serious' opposition, Mayor Wil­ Studies by the U. S. Department . wants to keep his job! Talk about blanket treatment. An observer it was following the call that Wil­ son well repaembers that it was of Labor, the Army and the Navy wasting the taxpayers’ money on asked Delegate Earl A. Nielsen to son wrote his long cablegram dangerous to be a Democrat at all, of prevailing . wages in the Terri­ holdover committees. introduce this question for dis­ describing the struggle between the or to vote the Democratic ticket. tory, Epstein wrote, reveal that by cussion. Although water is owned two factions which oppose and ."Even during the first Wilson comparison, the County of Hawaii ACCORDING TO T.H. law on by the government in most of the .support Governor Stainback. administration,” says Wilson, “a pays less than the legal rate. civil service, Act 187 S.L. 1939, Sec­ western states, and it was said so Labor Right So Far governor was appointed who had tion No. 10, certain political ac­ at the meeting, this question was When right-wingers told Wilson the interests of the Big Five and tivities are prohibited: “. . . No snuffed out. he was becoming too closely aided the Republicans more than any­ Rep. Dawson Gets member shall, during his term of with labor, he said: “When labor’s thing else. Before he was gov­ office, serve as an officer or com­ EXPERTS FROM the sugar and right, I’m with them. So far, you'll ernor he'd been "a recruiter of la­ mittee member of any political pineapple industries, the Bank of find me with them right along be­ bor from the Philippines to work Local Negro Views party organization, or present him­ Hawaii and the University of Ha­ cause they happen to be right.” on the sugar plantations.” self as a candidate or be a. candi­ waii were invited speakers and If Gov. . Stainback thinks Wilson GOP Coercion On Charles Kauhane date for nomination or election to they answered questions, coming and other Democrats who stayed The.: Republican machine was any public office in any primary principally from the chairman- with him in Kalihi are in bad com- so strong, Wilson says, that plan­ If Charles E.- Kauhane manages or general election.. . .” Even one of them nodded his. head . pany, the mayor says,' he can look tation-foremen used to sit outside to make any sort of public ap­ Mr. Valentine Marciel, life-long quite vigorously in agreement with at the Central Committee which voting booths to coerce workers to pearance on behalf of the right Republican-turned-Democrat, Ter­ Delegate Phillips' when the latter had four ILWU members last, year vote the-Republican ticket. Often wing Democrats at the Chicago ritorial clerk in the. bureau of the told :Chairman Richards that;the and which has five out of 30 fol­ the workers were afraid to vote in convention, he may get a surprise. budget and member of the board discussions did not apply to con­ lowing the Kalihi convention; opposition to the foremen because Rep. William L. Dawson (D., Ill.) of .directors of the HGEA, sudden­ stitutional matter. “I ddh’t think that’s domina- they felt the bosses had some mys­ it is known, has received communi­ ly joins ‘the rump Democrats or * « * * tion,” says the mayor. terious way of telling how they' cations from Negroes in Honolulu Stainbackrats to become chairman AN ELDERLY haole sitting be­ The entry of labor., as a force in voted telling how Kauhane, during a, of the party’s credentials commit­ the Democratic Party, Wilson . “Once. when I was running for post-war period, barred Negroes tee. Is this a violation of Terri­ side Harold Rice looked , like & says, came in 1946 and after be­ mayor,” chuckles Wilson,, “there from his Victory Inn on Hotel St. torial law, or is it all right since Big Five representative but he left cause it was not until then that was a foreman outside a booth at Local-Negroes also informed Daw­ Mr. Marciel is on the governor’s the meeting early, in disgust. As strong unions were developed here. .Waipahu .and he was telling the son of the incident last year when side? he walked out'he called an AJA Labor Found Friends men how they had voted. They Kauhane berated Morris Murray . and told him how phony the whole “We of the Democratic Party are performance was. .He thought dis­ figured out that he did it by watch­ with racist terms in the corridor ONE WONDERS whether T.H. labor’s friends,” says Wilson, “blit ing the string by which the pencil of lolani Palace. cussions , would take up constitu­ for a long time, the working people worker John Miki of the Depart­ tional provisions on land owner­ hung . from above.. If the string Rep. Dawson,- long a fighter for ment of Public .Welfare does any didn’t know it. They voted with moved th the right, he knew-, the Negro rights, has won more in­ ship, water rights, etc., so that work for the Territory nowadays. the people would benefit. But he the Republicans for many years.” man was marking the ballot oh fluence, it is said, than any pre­ He can be seen daily buzz-buzzing The administration of Franklin that side of the ticket.” vious Negro .Congressman. Local saw "property rights” dominating' Delano Roosevelt was a revelation around the convention hail with, the whole show. '^Loaded' diceC The. plantation workers fooled Negroes will be watching the Chi­ Stam-baekrat _ Harold Rice. Mr, to working people, the mayor says, the boss by turning- their ballots cago convention closely to see what said the AJA later, and a con­ Miki, another- rump Demqcrat- vention delegate agrbed. and he adds: “We’re out of the upside down to mark them so that action Rep. Dawson; may take_ come-lately, must be anxious about, .darkness now. We’ve come into he thought they were voting the toward Kauhane—if any actionjs.. the light.” public welfare or could it-t® his J GOP ticket. ..But they weren’t. necessary. private welfare? After Mr. Hoi- . Recalling the days when Repub­ “I won that precinct,” says Wil- $50,000 At Kona Comb resigned, the governor hasn’t (from pare 1) licans ran the islands almost with- yet filled the public welfare direc­ Prejudice By Own tor’s position. * demn the land if Mrs. Green­ well is unwilling to sell for what the county considers ' a fair Farrington Gets Boost, Rices Hit MISS ANNA HARRISON, who price?” a Kona resident asked- was secretary of the rump Demn- Other questions are also asked: (from page 1) economic plight to the people of Olbiano Sumodobila,. an unem­ crats’ convention, works' in the Territorial public works depart­ • Does Sherwood Greenwell, interest Filipinos in 2,000 acres of Hawaii. ployed Filipino, questioned the who is on the board of supervisors, wisdom of promoting the, Ilocano ment. Some Democrats marvelled land in Waimea, Oahu, for a set­ “Shoemaker knew the. things he at the rate she grabbed a .key have anything to do with the tlement . for the unemployed. is saying now when he was at National Association' in Hawaii, $50,000 not being spent? Speakers said .that the project will the University of Hawaii. Why since this may lead to group con­ post among the splinter Demos. flict among Filipinos. One of them recalled that during • And what about Robert be started, with part of the capital didn’t he say these things then?” Greenwell, who is on the board, raised from selling shares' in the 'Crozier asked. Recently, Sumodobila, who is a the last election she carried a settlement project. Visayan, applied for a job at the "Glover (GOP) for Senator” sign of water supply? What part has Taok criticized Philippines Con­ American' Factors lumber yard. on her car. And this source asked, he played, if any? The speakers pointed' out that sul General Manuel Alzate who wasn’t . she one of those who • While Konawaena pays $1,200 the HSPA and the Philippine.^ “Are you an Ilocano?” Sumodo­ was invited to speak to the gath­ bila said he was asked. plugged the slogan: Vote American, to the Greenwells : every year for government were responsible for ering of unemployed Filipinos but When he said he was not, the Vote Republican? water, why doesn’t Chairman.’ the rehabilitation of the unenr- did not show up. Some members' James Kealoha of the board of ployed. foreman told - him he had no of the audience observed that the chance of getting a' job , there. “OVERTURES FdR getting to­ supervisors bring pressure and ac­ Crozier’s Analysis absence of Mr. Alzate at two ral­ “The haole bosses don't know gether have been coming entirely tion? Does he have his eyes on Crozier in giving his. analysis of lies in successive weeks might be Ilocano from Visayan. We are all from the rump group," said a the Kona votes Sherwood Green­ the Democratic convention of a an indication that he is not in Filipinos. I told the Ilocano fore­ prominent Democrat, referring to well can turn over to him, come accord with the proposed settle­ election time? week ago which resulted in a mi­ ment. Some others debated wheth­ man that, but’ he turned me down,” news reports that leaders of the nority walkout and a rump con­ er or not this was a responsibility Sumodobila said. “Hocano for party groups have been trying to vention held by the dissidents said of the Consul General. Ilocano is bad kind of discrimina­ get together. “Our position is that the “great Demo split means tion.” sound, we.stand pat and we are Remember with Flowers nothing. The Rices and the Dill­ Other speakers at the rally were Tire unemployed Visayan said willing to listen." inghams have gained more power.” Gottfried Seitz, E. A. Brenner and he hurried away, because he might Jules Martin. He told the amused audience . lose control of himself in an ar­ “WILLIE” CROZIER was one Kodani Florist that the Rices, and the Dillinghams DjbLL MARKET? gument. He has a wife and has of the first to take up Delegate have “used governors and cast been out of a job since 1948. 307 Keawe St. Several acres of mature Irish Joseph Farrington's statement in Ph. 4658 • HILO, HAWAII them aside like, dirty dishrags potatoes in Kohala were left un­ Washington and locally make an when their usefulness was over.” harvested in April ■ because of a HONOLULU RECORD issue of it. He and a few others Crozier also, blasted .the econo­ “dull market,” according to a Published Every Thursday sent a telegram to Farrington, mic big interests of Hawaii for government report. With 30,900 by ■ backing the.Tatter’s position on: their “do-nothing” .policy on al­ unemployed and talk of dropping Honolulu Record Publishing Statehood for Hawaii or a bil­ Police Testing Station No. 37 leviating the unemployment situa­ thousands from the welfare roll, . Company, Ltd. ' lion dollars in tax refund. Crozier tion. - potatoes are not “dull” but a .811 Sheridan St., Honolulu, T. H.' says that if Farrington runs J. K. Wong Garage Alzate Criticized highly appreciated commodity. Entered, as second-class _matter_. for delegate this fall, ra —bil— __He_ said—the—Bank—of—Hawaii----— ■Why let a good crop waste away May TO, 1949, at the Post' Office at lion dollars’ in tax refund” would 55 N. KUKUI STREET has. employed James H. Shoe­ in the ground? Can’t the gov­ Honolulu, Hawaii, under the Act of be a strong campaign issue for Phone 57168 maker, economist, with the title ernment do something about March 3, 1879. him. This, on the ground that it of vice president to “explain” the this? is unconstitutional to tax without Page Four HONOLULU RECORD May 11, 1950 Llanos Beats Up Labor Roundup Guest from Manila, PEACE HAS PUNCTURED FLANKS MAURICE SAPIENZA, before LIEUT; JACK BOTHELO gets The "very probably peaceful (labor front) in the. near future" of the walkout at the Kalihi conven­ praise from many persons, who- Loses Courtjpase tion, called to a photographer which Dwight Steele spoke before the 14th Naval District Reserve In­ aren’t likely to have selfish mo­ Alejandro Llanos, whom no less while the' "left wing” was standing tives in giving it, because of a firm dustrial Relations officers at Ft. Shaftertwas being punctured at many than the brother of President El- to vote. . attitude against rough handling of flanks even as he uttered those’ words. pidio Quirino counted upon to , “Take a picture, of them,” Sa- prisoners and suspects by police.— A flash with no details from Kauai indicates that' sugar workers finance the proposed Bank of Ma- pienza told the cameranian. “We’ll at . Kilauea Sugar company, a C. Brewer plantation, failed to show nila, sentenced three pay you for it and we’ll send it A PROMINENT REPUBLICAN up for work on Wednesday, allegedly over the company’s “dilatory months in jail and to put up a' to the FBL” ‘ said, “I’d like to have gone to $1,000 peace bond in District Judge Others, carrying the smear tac­ watch the Democratic Conven­ attitude” over the settling of grievances. Griffith Wight’s court last week. tics to a more vicious degree, tion, but I was afraid rd get This is the second of the Brewer plantations where there has been Complaints against Llanos and called to the photographer: “Are razzed too much by my own fel­ what union sources call "a lack of good faith in administration of the: Dionisio Flores, for assault and you going to send their pictures lows.” agreement”—the first having been Hakalau on the Hamakua coast battery were brought by Juanito to Moscow?" But, he was reminded, Monte Baldeo, who said both men struck less than a month ago when the company reduced the work force. Richards was there. him on two occasions. Flores re­ RUTH OZAKI, playing in a golf "Yes,” said the official, “but The other punctured flank was on Molokai where union work­ ceived a 30-day jail sentence. tournament at the Ala Wai golf everybody knows he’s Big Five. ers at the Libby pineapple plantation stopped work on Monday One of Seven Guests club last Sunday, was somewhat I’m supposed to be a liberal.” and Tuesday in protest over the firing of a union member who Baldeo was Llanos’ guest at-the surprised to find a police car bear-, has been active in behalf of the union and its members. Young Hotel until last week. He ing down on her about the 14th AN OLD CHINESE man, who was one of seven persons whom green. Out stepped a cop to serve wore a Kuomintang button years With the return to work of the over 400 workers yesterday came. Llanos had brought from the Phil­ her a subpena to appear the fol­ ago, was asked by his Maui-born the announcement that the discharge would be taken to the grievance ippines, paying their expenses at lowing day before' the grand jury son what he’ thought about the civil procedure. the Young and Moana, hotels for as a witness in the Kageyama war that’s just winding up in China Takeo Furuike, union president, was due to return to Honolulu the past few months. One of the case. The. incident didn’t hurt last night after having been on Molokai for several days. guests was Ernesto Quirino, broth­ her golf a bit, Ruth says, tn fact, The boy led with, “The Na- time, there were no other details from union sources on the situation. er of the Philippines president. maybe it helped, for she won a Relationship between llanos and trophy. Not that it’s' her first. Baldeo became strained when the “No, son,” corrected the old man BAISE ASKED AT STAR-BULL v RECORD exposed Llanos, who has . CHICAGO, which was the scene "the rich people are fighting the In Honolulu, labor relations at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin among sold hundreds of thousands—some of race riots last winter, as. re­ poor people.” the circulation workers' of ILWU Local 150 were not exactly what say more than.a million—dollars ported for the RECORD by Ya- one could call amicable. in phony stocks, tolocal Filipinos. suki Arakaki of Olaa, is also the A FLEECER whose name has ’ Llanos blamed Baldeo for the scene of progress by, the. Negro been in the papers often was once Rank-and filers have given union officers authority to call strike news leak of the former’s current “taken for a ride” in the Main­ action in light of the. company’s refusal to bargain realistically, and people. A Chicagoan, ■ who spent scheme to promote the financing seven, years here, returned to the land 'gangster sense by some of have notified the Department of Labor of an impasse in negotiations. of the proposed Manila bank his confederates who felt he had The union is asking for a 15-cent wage increase, 10 cents retroac- Windy City recently to write back: “Seven years can make a lot of fleeced them. They were going to five to Jan. 1, 1950 and another 5 cents on Jan. 1, 1951. - a few weeks ago, Llanos arid difference . . . Negroes have made kin him, they said, to which he The union points out that the workers in circulation are deserving Flores assaulted Baldeo in the big progress. They own hotels replied calmly, “AH right, go ahead of an increase in view of increases given workers in other departments lobby of the Young Hotel. (beautiful), every kind of business, if you don’t care about your own through collective bargaining. Hospitality Over lives either. If-you think you can IJanos also threatened . Baldeo and beautiful homes.” ■ Negroes get away without • being caught, that • he would not leave Hawaii now have jobs, writes the Chica­ go ahead.” The would-be killers KAMOKU RESIGNS goan, with many merchandising alive and ' the latter pressed places, with public. utilities they contemplated the harrow confines . Levi Kealoha, present longshore business ^ent in Honolulu, has charges against Llanos. On this didn’t have before and Negro pro­ of Oahu and drove back to release been appointed as temporary president of the local following the an­ complaint, llanos was ordered to fessional people are now receiving the fleecer unharmed. nouncement of the resignation of Harry Kamoku, president. put up the . $1,000 peace, bond. more recognition than ever. Mr. Kamoku, who succeeded Jack Kawano as president in Janu- ' Baldeo, the RECORD.'.-learned, “THE NSP,” said a man on .. ary, resigned to rejoin his family in California. !, has left the-Young Hotel since he Bethel St. when the Un-American feels' he is'no longer Hands’ guest. DAIRYMEN’S at Hilo Has been In his letter of resignation, the long-time ILWU leader said that the focus of considerable'^ttention hearings were over, “is the name he hoped that however small his contribution to the labor movement He said that for serving-Llanos of a new organization I’m starting. faithfully, he was reward&dvby a because of the difference in the and to the improvement of workers’ wages and working conditions, amount of milk the company puts You’d better put it in your paper. that this contribution would continue.to be of help to the workers. “beat-up.” . A lot of people might like to join. When Baldeo brought the~Rs- in' its bottles and its cardboard' The letters? They mean 'No Yukio Abe, secretary-treasurer who announced the resignation, said sault and battery complaint • containers. It was proved pretty Stool Pigeon.’” that final action on the vacant post will be taken at a meeting of the against Llanos, the latter brought conclusively that Dairymen’s executive board in June., a counter complaint, on the same doesn’t put a full quart in the READERS WHO' like to have grounds against Baldeo. Judge cardboard containers, and as a re­ some good reason for reading, will WALLY HO ELECTED MCS PORT AGENT Wight dismissed llanos’ charge sult of such findings, the Hilopo- be glad to hear of two books now Announced this week as winner in the annual election of officers against Baldeo. lice are getting ready to take more published in 25-cent pocket edi­ in the Marine Cooks & Stewards Union, Wallace . Ho, originally of interest in the inspection of weights tions. They are Arthur Miller’s Honolulu, is expected to arrive this weekend to assume his new job and measures. “Focus” and Calder Willingham’s as MCS -port agent here. He succeeds Rudolph Eskovitz, whom he Ping Pong Players “End As u Man.”. Miller (he wrote defeated by a vote that totalled something more than 2-L A TIEUP between political pow­ the play, “All My Sons”) writes Ho has previously served his union here as an 'organizer in the I do want to comment on an­ ers and police at Hilo has appar­ of American anti-Semitism in "Fo­ shoreside division. Before the election, he was a dispatcher in the . other matter before I sit down. ently induced some Honolulu high cus" and does one of the best union’s San Francisco office. The gentleman (Rep. Claire Hoff­ Ashots in-gambling to try putting jobs in that book of exposing the Eskovitz, who was agent-here for 13 years, has not indicated what man) talked about FEPC. He sjpt machines in various likely so-called Christian Front. Will­ his future plans will be. tells you that, those who are for spots there. The strength of the ingham’s book is a naturalistic ex­ The election of. Ho was in general a reaffirmation of rank-and-file . FEPC take , their position purely combine remains to be seen. pose of a Southern military acad­ faith in the union's leadership which Eskovitz had attacked. Ho ran for political reasons. You: see, emy of the sort that produces.men on a slate with President Hugh Bryson, who was re-elected by a large these best and most cultured folks JIMMY SPENCER, the Hilo like Rep. Burr Harrison and Rep. majority, while Eskovitz was included on a right-wing slate. are also possessed of occult’ pow­ C-C road employe, - who had. a John Wood of the un-American ers Von cannot fool the gentle- spectacular accident, while driving Committee. man from- Michigan; no, sir. He home from a luau in a C-C vehicle THE TEAMSTERS FIGHT is a mind reader. more than a year ago,_yet was nev­ A HAWAIIAN woman who has The fight between A. A. Rutledge, Teamsters Council President, - But I want to draw a parallel. er prosecuted, is said^to owe his a business on Beretania St. patron­ and Henry Gonsalves, who says he is organizing an independent team7 The gentleman from Michigan was immunity to .a..strange, pressure. ized by many Negroes, says, she sters local, seemed'slated for police court some. time next week as. very strong for the Taft-Hartley A policeman might get . formally thinks she knows the- refison some a result of man en verin g by which Gonsalves was for a. time locked law, which outlawed boycotts; in charged with stealing’ a .pig from policemen use force more freely out of his office, in the McCandless Building. To gain ingress, Gon­ other words, the gentleman from .the Parker Ranch, according to., on Negroes than on members of salves finally got a court order and removed records and furniture. Michigan was in favor ,qf a law the story, if charges were ever other groups in Honolulu. The equipment was valued at $500. that would outlaw ' boycotts on brought against Spencer. “It’s because they know- their commercial institutions—that is rights better and they tell the po­ fey 'mid-week, both Rutledge and Gonsalves claimed they had all right, that is good legislation lice off.- So the police get mad be­ . the records, Rutledge' maintaining that he Removed them from the —the best and most cultured folks MANUEL CABRAL,, unemployed cause \ they can’t shove Negroes office of his former subordinate some days ago. are'Tor it, according to'him—but and on the welfare roll, is puzzled around the way they do the rest Said Rutledge, “As far as we are concerned, the battle is over.” If we attempt to outlaw a boy­ by an anonymous phone call he of us,, and when they get mad they received recently. The party who start swinging their clubs.” cott against a human race, that phoned said he wanted Cabral to LOOKING BACKWARD is bad legislation. . start a soap box for the unem­ In fact our friends are so much A POLICEMAN recently appre­ (from page S)**^* in love with the Taft-Hartley law ployed in the Palace grounds, so hended a woman who is pretty that the ; governor and the Big well known in the midtown area, ment they have received from the officials”—the Advertiser was that the other day when the gen­ Five would get a thorough shel­ perfectly serious and not being sarcastic—“was shown when they tleman from Utah (Mr. Granger) in the- act of going through the lacking and the jobless would get wallet of her escort, a slightly plas­ drew a big picture of a policeman with the words ‘American Liberty* . was talking about the plight- of organized. Cabral, who claims he written in English across it, hung it up on a tree and threw stones . miners who were unemployed be­ tered serviceman. • and mud at it all day. This pastime afforded them a great deal of cause of. the depressed' price' of was one of the organizers of IMUA, “What are you doing with that pleasure.” ■ thought for a moment that the call man's pocketbook?” asked the cop. metals he was asked by my col­ came from that group but dropped — (To BeConcluded Next Week) league, the gentleman from Mis­ T don’t know what HE’S do­ sissippi (Mr. Rankin) if the Taft- this line of speculation because the ing with it,” answered the woman • anonymous party wanted to blast Farm income slumped 18 per Hartley law would not cure that sadly, handing it -oyer.. “It doesn’t evil. If there was nothing else, the governor, who is tacitly backed have anything in it.” cent in 1949 as compared with by IMUA. . Comer the 1948 total - - done on that day, which you re­ member was devoted, almost ex­ HAWAIIAN PINE has) accord­ Liquor Store clusively to the playing of ping ■ DWIGHT EATON, who once ing to authoritative sources? one Flowers for all occasions. . pong, as today-is being devoted, told a Gadabout informant he’d of the best policies in the Terri- Complete Unes of Popular it will go down as a red-letter day rather “fight than eat,” has tory and in. the U. 5. in compensa­ changed his ' preference since a Beer—Wines—Liquors Makiki Florist tion to injured-workers. By con- Walter Honda. Prop. the Congressional Record. fracas a couple of m...o nt. hs ag_o . trast, the Territory’s policy com- Those in the best position.to know p'ares_uhfaYor^^_i?ith_that_of. Free delivery Phone 5607 0 'Total auto sales duringthe first say Eaton learned his lesson at 1363 S. Beretania St. many states, with less money be- 1042 Bethel St — JeL 54815 nine months of 1949 were 35 per the hands' of a long, slim man .ing spent both for compensation, Honolulu, Hawaii cent above -the comparable 1948 who gave the cop what’s' generally' and for safety inspection than on period. known as a “dirty beating.” ’ the Mainland. May 11, 1950 HONOLULU RECORD Page Five Alzate’s Fight Against “White HCLC Draft Given Const. Committee Australia" Policy Brings Change “Freedom from political oppres­ Consul General Manuel Alzate of sion” was one of the elements de­ the Philippines government in manded by the Hawaii Civil Liber­ Honolulu, fought Australia’s “lily- ties Committee in a document pre­ white” policy to the extent that senting its views to the bill of he recommended the closing of the rights committee at the__ponsti- Philippines diplomatic office in tutional Convention,-'Tuesday. Sydney last year, the RECORD was Defining this freedom, the docu­ reliably informed. ment stated, “Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms For his strong position he was set forth in this document, with­ congratulated by non-white dip­ out distinction of any kind such lomatic representatives of Asian as race, sex, language, religion, countries. Mr. Alzate, then occu­ political or other opinion, national pying a similar position in Aus­ or social origin, property, birth or tralia, was assigned here late last; other status.” year. The incident took place when The right to “equal pay for equal Lorenzo Gamboa, U. S. army work,” the right to organize and serviceman under MacArthur’s the right to bargain collectively command in Tokyo, asked per­ were all included in the docu­ mission from the Australian gov­ ment, which was presented before ernment for a visa to visit his the committee by Chairman white wife and child living in the Stephen Murin of the HCLC. British commonwealth. Other items included: Freedom Gamboa’s request was turned from Searches and Seizures, the down since Australia’s immigration Right to Social Security and Self- policy has restrictions against non­ uni: ALZATE Reliance, Freedom from Self-In­ whites. MacArthur’s ■ headquar­ ------crimination, and the Right to Jury STUDENTS STRIKE FOR TEACHERS—A mounted policeman rides ters did not strongly press for strongly about the case that he Trial and Bail. •into a crowd of New York City high school students as they-demonstrate Gamboa’s visa. ' sent the message uncodedL Thus, Others who appeared before the outside City Hall demanding pay boosts for their teachers. More_ than Although Gamboa is a U. S. committee included Hugh Lytle, 30,000 pupils participated in rallies, despite police brutality. citizen, Mr. Alzate took an interest the Australian government moni- representing the National Rifle in his case for it concerned fors and newspapers, picked up Association, who favored writing FROM “IN FACT” all /Filipinos. When the Aus­ the message and the Gamboa the right to bear arms into the tralian government still re­ case got a public airing. Constitution, but said there should fused Gamboa a permit to visit With the change of government be some restriction against carry­ his wife, whom he had met during ing concealed weapons. National Press Suppresses the war, Mr. Alzate sent a strong in Australia after last year's elec­ message to his home office in the tion, restrictions upon Filipino Philippines for the closing down of travellers have been relaxed. Gam­ the consulate general office in boa, whose case drove a wedge Kuroki, Nisei McCarthy's Fascist Sources Sydney. into the “lily-white” immigration In Fact, a weekly newsletter, "Although Kamp made his book­ It is reported in Filipino cir­ policy, has visited his Australian War Hero, to Edit on April 17 exposed where Sen­ cles here that Mr. Alzate felt so family since then. let available to newspapers, radio ator Joseph McCarthy was get­ and magazine bureaus as part of Nebraska Weekly ting his ammunition to attack State Department “reds.” The his regular publicity procedure Ben Kuroki, veteran of 58 bomb­ excerpts from the newsletter, when the McCarthy smears first Castle & Cooke Annual Meetings ing missions in the European and which calls itself “an antidote started, no publication bothered to Pacific theaters of war, recently for falsehood in the daily press,” compare its subject matter with became the owner of a weekly in shows what forces and inter­ the Senator’s disclosures, which Run off in Push-Button Fashion York, Nebraska. ests are behind McCarthy and were then on all of the front pages. generally how the dailies han­ “A month later, the NY Daily SPECLAL CORRESPONDENCE ures running into the millions, When Kuroki graduates from the dled the news. Castle and Cooke, Ltd., like some each plantation or company was University of Nebraska, he will de­ Compass noted some of its simi­ larities, the first paper to do so. other Big Five agencies, holds given half an hour to finish its vote his time to editing the^74- “Much, of the data used by Sen­ streamlined annual meetings of order of business. This may seem year-old York Republican. On April 5, Friends of' Democ­ incredible, but here is the way ator Joseph McCarthy in his racy made available to all pa­ its member plantations which Stimson Intervened highly publicized smear crusade come off in push-button manner. it was done: The Nisei war hero flew 25 pers and wire services an analy­ This year the meeting date The annual meeting for Ko­ bombing missions in Europe, then against State Department em- sis showing that Kamp and Mc­ hala Sugar Co. was held at . ployees was lifted verbatim from Carthy had used the same ma­ fell on March 3L First Frederick volunteered for five more. Sent a pamphlet published a few weeks Simpieh, Jr., as secretary of 9:30 a m.; Ewa Plantation Co. back to the U. S., the Nisei ser­ terial, almost word for word. at 10 a. m.; Waialua Agricultural ago by Joseph Kamp, anti-Semitic Except for the Compass, which Castle and Cooke, the agency, geant volunteered for duty in the propagandist who is now under and simultaneously of Kohala Co., Ltd., 10:30 a. m.; Halemano Pacific. He met difficulties be­ ran a few paragraphs April 7, To., Ltd., 11 a. m., and ’ Castle conviction for contempt of Con­ few other dailies used the ma­ Sugar Co., Ewa Plantation Co., cause he was a Nisei, but finally gress and whose native fascist or­ Waialua Agricultural Co., Ltd., and Cooke, Ltd., at 11:30 a. m. was assigned to combat missions in terial. Waialua Liquidating Co., Ltd., Practically the same names ap­ the Pacific through the personal ganization, the Constitutional Edu­ “This documentation was avail­ and Halemano Co., Ltd., sent pear as officers of these com­ cational League, was cited by the able to- all papers the day Owen intervention of Secretary of War Justice Department during World out notices to stockholders. ~ panies. Elections seem a routine Stimson. ■ Lattimore _ demolished McCarthy The meetings were held in the' matter, year after year. WarH as a-channel for seditious in testimony before the Senate The York Republican said, in propaganda. board room of Castle and Cooke, In meetings like these, the big announcing the sale: "It will be Comm. He charged that the China Ltd., to consider the annual re­ stockholders don't even have to sufficient here for the present “Money for McCarthy’s ..cam­ Lobby had furnished McCarthy ports, election of directors and the leave the board room after they management to say that they wel­ paign has been supplied by at with his smear data, but even transaction. “of other businesses are through with one company. come this apostle of rugged Amer­ least two sources. though the proof was in their of­ as may lawfully and properly come The chairman can bang the gavel, icanism to the community-and to a “Chie of these is Alfred Kohl- fices, the vast bulk of the press before the meeting.” close the meeting, and bring down workshop for his chosen profes­ berg, wealthy subsidizer of pro­ continued to suppress the smear Although some of the companies the gavel again to open the next fessional anti-red groups who Senator’s link with a notorious did tremendous business, with fig­ 'meeting. ... sion.” Editorially the Republican com­ admits his SI ,500,000 a year im­ hate-monger. mented: “The new owner-editor port business depends upon Senator Challenged has a world-wide vision. He had keeping Chiang . Kai-shek in “Also suppressed was a public a conspicuous war experience. His power and who is willing to- ’challenge to McCarthy by Friends parents were foreign-born. He spend large sums to-protect his of Democracy that he either'con­ himself is a vigorous, upstanding, investments. firm or deny that his information vocal American who loves his citi­ “The second is William Good­ had come from Kamp. zenship and wants every other win,- Christian Front leader, found­ -“Hi a- telegram to the Senator, native-born American and every er of the fascist American Rock TOD’S national director Leon M. other American by self-adoption Party (1941) and currently regis­ Birkhead asked him to ‘explain to know they are living under a tered with Congress as a lobbyist the remarkable coincidence which great banner of freedom and pro­ for the Chiang regime at a $65,000 (1) enabled you to cite precisely tection which should claim their retainer for a two-year period. the same*secret State Dept, re­ fealty and immense patriotic Press Ignores Tie-In ports and (2) caused both you pride. . .” “First hint that McCarthy and and Kamp to charge that a parti­ From Sen. Butler’s State Kamp were working hand in glove cular loyalty file—to which neither Kuroki suffered discrimination came when Kamp published his of you presumably has Access—is during the war. Like his Nisei latest pamphlet, ' 'America Be­ missing, and (3) made it possible compatriots in Hawaii, he carried trayed,' a lurid 64-page booklet for you and Kamp, almost simul­ on a two-edged warfare—defeat of subtitled, , ‘T h e Tragic Conse­ taneously, to issue ; charges in fascism abroad and prejudice and quences of REDS on .the Govern­ which even the wording is nearly discrimination at home. After’the ment Payroll.’ -.’ identical.’” war he spent many months on “The booklet appeared a few speaking tours of the nation, in a . days after McCarthy made a leng- Would you like to know your United States munistic slogan.” . ...This .statement .by. the president, of ..an organization which has, titled: “The Senate and the Dis- • are annoyed by some of the tour­ Whereupon Standley’s son-in- fbfight. against minority groups who . do riot.Jpeet'the,, “white", require­ placed-Persons . Bill—The Truth ists’ observations of America. One law, Councilman Charles B. Win- ment, is to Us the laugh of the week. Sports, we always heard, were Behind America’s Shame.” The tourist praised the American rail­ cote, got enough of his colleagues to help create a better bond of friendship and. fellowship. following is an excerpt: road companies for using so many to believe it and the council, by a “What are the' arguments of Negroes in the industry. Accord­ 4 to 3 vote, reversed a previous We see where Johnny Efh'an beat the Puerto. Rican Pride, Chico the narrow nationalists who op- ing to an article which he wrote endorsement of the Four Freedoms Rosa, at Stocktph this week at 130 pounds. Chico’s loss, according to pose any liberalizing of our im­ for a newspaper, American rail­ for the plaque. the papers, was on a very close decision. Rosa has been losing regularly migration restrictions? Mostly, roads have been using Negroes be- \ TEe Sail Diego Council of Vet­ and at one time, after his win over Sandy Sadler; he was considered they appeal to fear; fear of the cause of an order by the first pres­ erans’ Organizations and the Cen­ dna of the best local prospects. ident of a company (we do not foreigner, fear of his manners tral Labor Council descended on 2 $Last month, some guy came out with a suggested match between and customs, fear of job compe­ know which company). Since the the council with such an outcry tition, fears of his political ideol­ Negroes did so much in develop­ that _the., city fathers hastily Dado Marino and Mokey Hanagami. We can only see this match as a ing the railroads, prated the tour­ sparring session for both fighters. We "see this week that Hanagami ogy, fear of contamination from dropped the hot potato. and Marino are putting on this match over in Schofield as an exhi­ aliens, fear of letting down the ist, the president made it a rule The final decision on what to to always use them "as a token of bition sparring session. That’s all we can see in a bout of this nature. bars recently set up. put on the plaque was left to After all, they’re from the same stable and who do they think they’re T read through hundreds' of appreciation for their contribu-” ■ the veterans’ groups who will use pages of the Congressional Record tion. The writer thought a warm the building. Since these groups ■ kidding? Z- paternal relationship- existed be­ ■ originally proposed the Four Ray (Sugar) Robinson, the presept welterweight champion, will have tween the company and the Ne- Freedoms, the city council suf­ to wait Tor quite a spell before; he gets a crack at Jake? La Motta for1 fered a severe setback from pub­ the middleweight crown. Ray is listed as the number one challenger, The tourist-evidently did not go lic ■opinion. . " but most likely will be given the run-around by the “Association--lor into the hig offices of the railroad And what about dour, 77-year- the Prevention of Champions from the Loss of Their Crowns.” ■ companies to see how many Ne- old Standley? . “If-that's "what the veterans------Toy Tama.nahar who lost; both of ms legs on Dec. 7, was at one The first census of the Hawaiian . nor did he ride' the.-trains in the ■ want, I guess they’ll have it,” he time one of the best prospects in local, rings. Toy was visiting in. : j— 4-’ .-_ ----- _ South where Negroes ride in seg- -—grumbled. “I/won’t oppose it town last month, renewing acquaintanceships. He now operates a - population of 130,313. negated cars. any longer.” liquor store on -Mamo St. in Hilo. ' May 11, 1950 HONOLULU RECORD Page Seven

Diamond Head Crater LETTER Vice Squad Men Accused

Scene of Payoff Grilling Editor, Honolulu RECORD: In Smith Street Fracas u Mr. Henry Miki, 3528 Maunalei (from page 1) to that end he has carefully-pre- (from page 1) ' the police • involved to look good1 Ave., recently called our attention had handcuffs on me,” he says, served, such, evidence as he feels • matter too, much if one man before, the public by making ar­ to an outstanding example of the “and when they found myjiocket- help^present his story. This breaks under questioning, The advantages of the American way knife, they stopped and one of J evidence.• includes his clothes, rests, it is alleged. Nearly all vice ■ — which, he says, still bear the foot- other two just say they don’t operators who manage to keep out of life as compared to the oppor-- them said: ‘That’s it.’ ” know anything about it.” tunities' offered in other lands. prints of the officer who kicked of jail and still in operation, it is One of the charges, subsequent­ By a second method, payoffs are Mr. Miki pointed out that there ly placed against him, says Wat­ him. He has also investigated said, have some such working are nearly 2,000 residents of Hawaii enough to discover he has a num­ alleged to be conducted through kins, was that of carrying con­ ber of witnesses, he says. the bails posted. z agreement. now enjoying an excursion to cealed weapons, though he main­ “If three men'. post $100 bail “One big trouble,” said a man Japan. Practically all of these are tains his knife has only a two- “I was arrested before,” he says, apiece,said one man, “they leave . familiar with gambling circles, residents of Japanese ancestry. inch blade. Two other charges “andTve been beaten but I didn’t it there arid don’t collect it after “is that there’s so much jealousy Many of them are of the older are: assaulting an officer and at­ have the money to fight. This time - the case.' Then, if they get caught among the cops who get the pay­ generation who came to Hawaii tempt. jo escape. my folks sent me money and told fleecing again, they take it out offs. I know one man who had years ago without wealth or high The only motion_he made thaV me to fight the case the whole and it'becomes the payoff money. games at his house. He thought education. could be interpreted as assault, way.” ’ But if it’s more than 15 per cent . he had a deal and when some He estimates that each traveler Watkins says, was that of rais­ The most serious charge against of the amount the fleecers got, other cops came in once, he will spend about $1,500 for,the ing his arms to protect himself Watkins to date, he says, was so­ somebody’s going to be - unhappy obliged them by bringing down trip to Japan and return, ac­ from blows, -and his “attempt to liciting, and he denies that he has and it’s not the cops.” ^yeryOne who was in the game. counting for a total of $300,000 to escape” must have been his pull­ ever had any connection with, or cover the total expenditures of Lawyers Said Involved After that he.had to pay off an­ ing free to run into another interest in the narcotics traffic The. most common method of other bunch, so his overhead ■ the group, here. went up.” Mr. Miki then points out that “When one of them kicked me Since his earlier arrests, Wat­ payoff, most informed sources say, the opportunity of the individual is one conducted by the- lawyers Some men who have been in­ in the stomach, I couldn’t stand kins says. Officer Souza has fre­ under our American system, to the pain,” he says. ‘To had to quently accosted him with the who represent defendants. When volved in payoff cases, though.in- work and save, and then to use fees of lawyers are unreasonably 21 directly, believe that the money pull loose.” question: “When are you going • After ail the action, Watkins back?” Watkins interprets “back” high, it is said, the defendant as­ may flow to attorneys in the city­ advantage enjoyed in America sumes that part of the money has county prosecutor’s office and they says, the’ charge against. him was as a reference to the Mainland. which is -not found elsewhere in made not by the vice squad offi­ Sergeant Paul Shaffer has never gone for the payoff. cite, as evidence, that' fact that a ‘ the world today. man from that office sometimes cers, but by the patrolman on the said much to~him, according to But not all payoffs are wholly He. stressed this by citings that beat, David (The Dime) Hill. Watkins, because “Shaffer doesn't , in money, some authorities say, the visits defendants before the cases there are 200,000 residents of bulk in some cases being informa­ are heard and advises them on Botelho Stopped Beating talk much. He’s strictly a Head­ their testimony. Brazil who migrated there from “Shaffer rode beside -me in the ache man.” tion. Thus,' if a vice operator re- Japan, starting about the same wagon when they took me down," ceives “protection” from an offi- _ But ’ few, if any, of such de­ time our own local Japanese start- says Watkins, "and he punched trie cer, or a group of officers,-he may .fendants have expressed any doubt . cd arriving in Hawaii. Says Mr. in the stomach twice. He punched Fil. Boy Weeps be expected to give information on of the hohesty’of Chief Dan Liu. Miki “"I’ve heard of no excursion me again after we got down to the his competitors which will enable ' “One thing you’ve got to re­ from Brazil to Japan. They have station. That was. about the time To Return Here member," said a man familiar with not -had the opportunity to earn Lieutenant Jack Botelho came such operations, “is that Dan Liu’s and to save as we do in America. down and told him to lay off.” (from page 1) “Moncado Drive” Is in a tough spot and he’s doing the Furthermore, even though a few Captain Leon Strauss also ap­ was leaving, a boy from Honolulu best he can. There have been might -have saved enough, they peared, Watkins said, and said he Some funny looking promotions, I would not be permitted to take had heard Watkins was being "His parents live here in Ka­ Request of Federation know, but I think you- can tra—ce that much money out of the coun­ beaten up by the vice squad. lihi,” says Cuizon, “and he asked - (from page 1) those-back to the police commis- , try.” sion. I don’t think Liu really ap- ' “He asked me,” said Watkins, me to say helio to bin mother, “General” Moncado was responsi­ ’ “IMUA” wonders why more ex­ “but I was afraid to say any­ but he begged me not to tell her proved of them all, but he may amples of this nature are not fea­ ble for most of the settlement on have believed it was no time to thing for fear they’d beat me what a hard job he had. There Kalaepaa Drive, it is only fitting tured.in a local weekly, newspaper some more after he left.’1* oppose' the commission on such instead of the type of “racial'har­ that he should-be honored by hav­ points.” Watkins says he intends to press Cuizon is a father and a grand­ ing the street named after him. mony” reporting to be found high­ such charges as are possible against father, himself, though, and when The accompanying petition carries Such .a promotion, it is thought, ly stressed in each issue. the policemen who beat him^ and he saw the boy’s mother, he told may have been that of Paul Shaf- her the whole truth. : The boy - Mayor Wilson answered that the fer’to be sergeant of the vice squad Executive Secretary. from Kalihi is only "one of many, matter would be presented to'the at the beginning of 1950. Shaffer, AFL Asks Probe he says, who have gone to work Board of Supervisors, -the only though he had served for several Editor’s Note—We suggest that in California and . who., remain body which has the authority to ■years and, admittedly knew as Mr. Miki read up on Brazil, where Taft Nisei, and their parents are doing Of ’s Racket . there now because they have no take such action. ” much of the. operation of vice as CINCINNATI (FP)—A congres­ money to buy passage home. The uncertainty of the executive any policeman in Honolulu, never­ very well, especially in Sao Paulo, theless, ‘has been condemned re­ where they play important roles sional investigation of Sen. Robert “Contractors” Get Rich. director’s office about the latest A. Taft’s chain letter fund-raising ‘•"The contractors are getting rich plan of Moncado to return to Ha­ peatedly. because of alleged bru- in government. Incidentally, they own big businesses, too, and are . drive was called for here by the off them,'1' says Cuizon. "When waii is not surprising since, other' Railway Clerk, weekly newspaper they buy groceries, they buy at the announcements have not material­ — City-County Prosecutor Charles members of consumer and produce cooperatives. of the. Brotherhood of Railway contractor’s store. They must pay ized. Moncado, who has been on H. Hite called “ridiculous” allega­ Clerks (AFL). for their passage to California— the Mainland since early in 1949, tions that attorneys from his of­ Taft, who is publicly professing at the contractor’s price. Then the is said to have gone there to seek fice might be involved in re­ that the chain letter campaign is rancher pays higher wages which American citizenship. ceiving percentage payments from Wild Smear Attacks a grass roots effort, is “now. trying are collected. by the' .contractor. The last announcement was to illegal operators, but he said WASHINGTON (FP) — Wild an old Hitler trick of accusing He pays the men 85 cents an hour the effect that Moncado would if any evidence is produced, ■smear attacks- like those made by ^someone else of doing the very and pockets the rest.” ’ return on the 4th of July, 1949, he wants to know about it. Mr. Sen. Joseph McCarthy. (R., WisJ thing which his own henchmen • Cuizon, who returned a little but a house, purchased in Manoa Hite said action by the prosecutor’s would be used to kill off political want to keep under cover,” the more than two Weeks ago, worked to house the “general” and his office against possible “percenters” opposition if the Mundt-Nixon bill for a labor contractor - who put wife,’ “Brigadier General” Toy. on the police force awaits the con­ becomes law, 25 Wisconsin Univer­ article said. - Moncado, ’ still stands idle, the clusion of the investigation being sity professors wrote to the Wis­ R. A. Hunt of the Lehigh Valley him on_an asparagus farm about conducted by Chief Liu Railroad “sneaks" Taft propaganda 30 miles from Stockton. .When FFA spokesman said this week. consin congressional delegation. and money appeals to employes in he found the work-was too hard, When the “general” arrived in­ The letter was released April 26 envelopes marked “Confidential” he quit and came home and he Hawaii from the Philippines on by the National Committee to De- considers himself lucky to have his first post-war visit, in the fall No Will To Enforce? . feat the Mundt Bill- ' ' and “Personal,” according to the of 1948, shortly after being cleared Clerk. money for the return passage. He The Machinist, weekly paper of' Cost of medical care to private , “It is time fo n the Senate to in­ - had that when he started working. the International Association of persons totaled around $7.4 billion vestigate the Taft chain letter •I bought a file at the con­ . with-the Japanese Imperial Army Machinists (unaffiliated), made a tractor’s store,” he says, “that during the. war, he announced that in 1949. Only 8 . to 9 per cent of racket, which has now reached the survey of illegal-price-fixing cases. these costs were compensated proportions of a national scandal,” would cost 20 cents here. When I The Machinist found that more ■ future home...... through group and individual poli­ the newspaper said. “Better men got the bill, it was for 65 cents. than 500 concerns and 13 trade cies and through non-profit plans than Taft have been refused a seat At stores outside, cigarettes sold God’s Third Choice associations had been “ charged such as Blue Cross, Blue Shield in the Senate because they spent for $1.59, but at the contractor’s It was on that visit that he first with price-fixing in the last two and other groups. ' . too much money getting elected.” store, the price was $2.” announced his commission as years. “Five-Star General” in the ‘Fil­ Large as these figures may seem, ipino Army of World Crusaders,” by government estimate they rep­ an organization which' his adver­ resent only a fraction of the vio­ tisements also said he had founded. lations of anti-trust laws. 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For it SUBSCRIPTION RATES: has become daily more evident that the only 1 year (Oahn) ______—...... ?5.00 persons to profit by this split were the Republi­ cans and the vested interests. 1 year (Other Islands) ------...... — $6.00 —Includes Airmailing— As a matter of fact, those who led the walk-out behaved like tools of the Republicans and —'"d 1 year (Mainland) ...... 55.00 interests rather than Democrats. A reasonable person could easily con­ KUROKI VS. BUTLER clude that these leaders are opposed to a vigorous Senator Hugh Butler of Nebraska is two-party system in Ha­ still doing his utmost to kill' Hawaiian waii and entered the statehood. Democratic ranks either to use it as a Republican It was Butler who came here in 1948 appendage or else ta to “expose” communism in the Territory wreck it entirely. and with the governor’s help, was all set It is common knowl­ to go when President Truman got re­ edge that only during recent years have the elected. Democrats as a party, The Nebraska Republican was embar­ been an important factor rassed then, out here trying to do a smear in island politics. Some individuals have been elected as Democrats, but their victories have been, job, and his party getting defeated in the in the mam, & tribute to their personal popularity Congressional elections. The elections rather than to party strength. At the same time, showed that Butler would be out as chair- [ certain of. these were obligated to Republican man of the Senate Interior and Insular leaders for the success1 they did enjoy. Affairs Committee. Needs Labor Participation Butler, who has used the “red” issue'in Aftfr long years of existence primarily as a pa­ his fight against Hawaiian statehood, last per party, why .did the Democrats emerge as a real week exposed himself further as-a solon Looking Backward organization with a say-so in the Hawaiian political arena? The answer in the Territory is the same os with a Dixiecrat mind. the answer to continued Democratic successes on He submitted to the statehood hearings the Mainland: the direct participation of organized a 30-page communication from a man in RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS-1910 labor. Portland, Ore., who opposed statehood for • (EIGHTH OF A SERIES) There are those who may not like this fact, but Hawaii because of territorial noncontiguity, Howling for the release of their imprisoned leader, Vasilieff, 400 to nevertheless, it is big and real. The power of the Democratic party in Hawaii dates from the entry and on economic and racial grounds. 500 Russians, most of them husky men, crowded against the door of the of the ILWU into its ranks. Kick out the ILWU The report was aimed against the large police station. Repeatedly told to disperse, they out-shouted the inter­ and the Territorial Democratic party will again population of people of Japanese ancestry preter. become weak and senile. Of course that would Meanwhile, some 15 policemen had assembled, and Sheriff William please the Republicans, the vested interests and here. It said'that Japan’s “new weapon” their servants wearing the clothing of Demo­ is “floods of babies.” Also, the Portland Jarrett judged that the time was ripe to disperse the Russians. The crats, but not those who consider the welfare of racist wrote: “Nobody seems to die out interpreter made a last appeal the party and see in it the political voice of the there,” and commented that the haoles Never Before In Honolulu common man. and Hawaiians are being driven out by “We wont go home; we will sleep in tlje street,” cried the immi- Since the election of Roosevelt in 1932, the the fast-breeding Japanese, grants. National Democratic'party has been the ideologi­ cal arm of the little guy. The labor movement What Butler said could have easily "All right, turn loose the hose,” ordered Jarrett. flourished and grew strong under the New Deal; come put of John Rankin’s mouth. “A The Russians had put a cordon of women and children in front, evi­ working people, farmers and minority groups elect­ very fine statement,” was the Nebraska dently believing the police would not charge them. But, as the dash of ed Roosevelt to four terms as President because he cold water in their faces threw the Russians, into confusion, the police spoke for them. ,/ Republican’s remark. broke through the women and children and laid into the men. Truman could not have been elected in 1948 Like Rankin of Mississippi, Butler has “Never before has such, a scene been-witnessed on the streets of without labor support. He is President now only red-baited and race-baited to build his Honolulu,” wrote a reporter.. “With the wailing of the women and children and the tangled curses of the men was mingled the sharp because he-made definite-promises to the little political influence. We feel that in Nebras­ crack of poHce clubs, the thud of fists on skulls and the hiss of the guy and got the backing of the majority of trade ka Butler would find strong resistance whips of the mounted police.” « unionists. . among people like Ben Kuroki. The Advertised was especially scornful of what it called the cowardice A Strong or Weak Party? . The story Df 32-year-old Ben Kuroki of the Russians. “The bravery of the Russians is confined to brave But here we come to a difference between the words. There is no fight in than. —They simply fell over one another in has been written by Ralph G. Martin in. their efforts to get away.” labor support of the Democrats on the Mainland “The Boy from Nebraska,” and it is re­ and in Hawaii. In the continental U. S., the right­ Finished Off With Fists - wing unions, who are by far the majority, are the ferred to as one of the great individual backbone of the Democratic party. In Hawaii, stories of Americans in World War II. Had the Russians come to the police station looking for trouble the labor movement is overwhelmingly ILWU and Kuroki flew 25 missions over Europe and and had they put up, a fight, would the Advertiser have attacked them therefore is not right-wing. Hawaiian Democratic Africa as a turret-gunner on a bomber. for their ferocity? leaders, ’nevertheless, must have labor backing to As it was, the newspaper poured out its scorn upon “the big husky succeed and they may as well face the fact that Then he asked for five more missions. He men” who held up their children' before the mounted, police “in tha • this backing has to be mainly ILw u. . later served in the Pacific, in 28 more hope, apparently, that the horsemen would not dare charge for fear of What it boils down to is this: Cooperate with flying missions over the Japanese islands. .injuring the little ones.” the ILWU and have a strong Democratic party, After V-J Day he was flown from However, as the mounted men advanced from the front, the or fight the ILWU and have a weak, divided foot patrol took the Russians in the rear. “The trouble lasted about party which can do nothing but give aid and Tinian to New York City to speak at a a minute, and when the dust of battle cleared, all that could be seen comfort to the Republicans, the vested interests New York Herald-Tribune Forum. He said, was a disordered mob going for the Russian camp on the dead run.” and their tools registered as Democrats. in part: Few stopped to argue the question, and those who did, regretted their stop. The police simply dropped their clubs and went for them Let us say, for the sake of argument, that the ‘Tve had 58 bombing missions now, with their fists. minority rebel faction wins recognition by the national headquarters as the “true” Democrats of and I’m still tired enough so my hands For, as the Evening Bulletin reported the affray, “the police used shake, and plenty of nights I don’t sleep Hawaii. Just what1 would you have, other than their clubs freely and six or eight were broken over the Russians. The paper recognition? Where would they get mass so good. I’d like to go home to Nebraska ‘billies,’ which, are leather affairs loaded with shot, also were used a support? Would they not be in the same position and forget the war, and just lie under a great deal and the police spared-nothing when they laid on the whips.” as the Territorial Democratic party of a few tree-somewhere and take it easy. It’s hard Driven Back To Iwflei years ago, which had a charter but little influence at the polls? Or is that the way the rebel leaders to realize that the war is not over for me. Yet, as the officers had orders to hit where it would do no permanent • Not for a lot of us, Jewish Americans, damage—or because the Russians were extraordinarily tough—the only want it? ' ~ Italian Americans, Japanese Americans. serious injury was to a small boy. Thrown in front of the horses by Decision Must Be Made Here While there is still hatred and prejudice, his father, he had his leg broken. If the rebels desired mass support, they would- our fight goes on. Back in Nebraska on . Within five minutes, trailed by the three mounted policemen, the be forced to do business with the ILWu, and we Russians were, back at their Iwilei camp. our farm, when I planted a seed, I knew would be back where we were. For the hard, cold Next morning the Advertiser’s editor exulted: “For once they fact is, that no matter which way you turn,' if a that after a while I’d get a crop. That’s - were treated exactly as they deserved and for once they found some­ strong Democratic party is the object, then the the way it was with a lot of us in this war one who would_ not stand and talk but who would act. ILWU is right in .the center of the, picture. The —we want to plant the seeds to bring" in “It is not pleasant to see or hear of men being beaten with clubs, rebels can close their eyes, but the ILW u is still a crop of decency and peace for our fam­ but it is refreshing to know that we have in-Honolulu a man ready to there.51WSKw£W>S«®'Of?SB^^ ilies and our children.” do the clubbsig when it is necessary. Sheriff Jarrett has proved him­ And so we see that nothing can actually be self to be the man of the hour." . decided anywhere other than in Hawaii. The With a man like Butler close by ip his problem is ^whether" the" Democratic party is to- state and representing his state, Ben Ku­ The Policeman Got Stoned become powerful or return to its days qf weak­ roki’s war is certainly not over yet. That night the beaten-up Russians held an indignation meeting, but ness. If H is to be strong, then the rebels are May Day being a religious festival, they celebrated quietly by dancing, going to have to do business with the ILWU, Next month Kuroki will become editor drinking and picnicking. whether they like it or not. and publisher of a weekly in York, Nebras­ “The gratitude they have for the kind and considerate treat- ■But if they want a weak party, keep out or­ ka. We send him our best wishes. (more on page. 4) ganized labor.