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V 52 1^4 ■ . - J" Sec. 562, P. L. & R. U. S. POSTAGE Single Issue 1* PAID 10c Honolulu* T. H.- Tin Z^wspaper Hawaii Needs $5.00 per year Permit No. 189 by subscription HONOLULU Ji(CO RD • • ■ -- • ; Vol. 1, INo. 39 • FUBJLlbHrJLJ LVtKl IHUKdUAY April 28, 1949 ' : ' 1 'Wa ' ' ' ' ' ■ • . ' — ' ' ' ~~' '' ' " Palace Notes Rice Dr" o- - p |>H H i»t s AS @ tores No Interference Mutual^ Shifts Union Men Vote Was Gypped Retailers Who By KHCHI WATANABE The tragedy of the Kona coffee Bought Heavily farmers has almost no comic re lax lo Small For Strike At In Pay, Hours; lief, and the other day a scene, from this tragedy was played on Must Now Unload the floor of the House. Shopkeepers Waipahu Meeting Rep. Earl A. Nielsen, West Ha PackerClaims A brief flurry of hoarding two waii Democrat, .ruddy-faced and By STAFF WRITER A thousand grim-faced workers Employing a man for 64 hours weeks ago, inspired by word-of- white haired, had lined up all the of the Waipahu unit of Local 142 a week oh a packing and cratirig forces he could to. pass HB 222 With a quick flip of the wrist, mouth rumors of an impending the Mutual Telephone Co. -last (Sugar Workers) ILWU, heard job, a Honolulu contractor jug longshore strike, caused, over which would allow 51-year leases union leaders tell them Wednes gled the laborer’s hours, paid him on coffee farms. He had even week passed a portion of its tax stocking by. retailers who are now burden to small storekeepers in day during the morning session for 58 hours at straight time rates unloading their rice at reductions brought James Ushiroda from Ko -of the "Stop "Work” meeting at arid carried the six hours to the na, to have him speak for long whose establishments “semi-pri of from 25 to 50 cents a bag. The vate” -pay-station telephones are Waipahu, that their action would following week, when he paid him lowest price quoted was $9.95 per term leases for coffee arid maca Installed. The flip came in the be a strong factor in determining straight time on them also. .100-pound bag at a Kalmuki store, damia farms'“which require years the course of Hawaii’s workers. Tamotsu Takeuchi, the labor before they begin bearing enough form of a letter which informed the past weekend. storekeepers that, beginning .May . At . 10 p.m. Tuesday night, on er, has quit working for Harry Wholesalers report another drop, to pay off. ' the dot, griridlng in the. massive M. Kaneta, the contractor, who Nielsen is a Democrat, but he 1, they jvill be charged a 15 per emanating from' the : Mainland, cent Federal excise tax, which was . sugar mill at Waipahu stopped has also "short-changed” him where extra-fine grades of rice are . had every reason to believe that as workers left their jobs, with in the last pay check he ■ re his two Republican colleagues formerly paid by the company. quoted at $8.75 per. ■ bag. This "This will equal approximately conveyors still loaded with cane. ceived, according to Takeuchi. price, the lowest for months, :is, from Kona would support his The second shift gang went home, As proof of his charges Takeuchi bill whole-heartedly. $1.13 per month,” states the let said to be the result of a fluctuat ter. "However, the exact amount leaving the mill. Only the utility carries with him his pay envelopes ing buying policy on the part of But support/ they did not. Rep. maintenance personnel of the but he has none for his first and Esther K, Richardson spoke against billed to-you will depend on the the government. A ■ little more number of days between dates of third shift reported to work: No last pay checks. than three weeks* ago, a Big Five th’b bill and voted “against it. It third’ shift workers arrived to.take Hours. Were Juggled would be interesting to find out opening of the coin box.” . buyer told the RECORD the gov their 'places in the “mill, and' thus "When I first started working ernment had curtailed its buying what , her constituents from the . Company Paid Before t—he W---a-irp-a-h--u w--o-r--k-e-r--s- -h--a--d- -d--e-f-i-e-d- I wanted to know how much I coffee farms thought of her action.' Mr. J. W. Russell, Mutual’s busi program.. > the management’s notice to stick was getting so I asked the boss' One observer pointed out that Some of them were right there ness manager, who signed the let with their jobo. brother, who was my crew leader, on the Palace Grounds, working ter, told the RECORD the tax Aiea 100 Per Cent iny hourly rate. Hei paid me that (more'on page 3) for her printing committee which has been- applicable to the shop At 5 a.m. Wednesday union of first time with a check and no ——————. she has staffed. with quite a few keepers all along, but that the ficials were stirring and early in envelope so I naturally asked my Konaites. She may not have heard company had been paying it the morning four busloads of work rate and deductions for taxes. (more en page 6) (more on page 4) ers from Aiea arrived to report that He said: 'Figure out for yourself.’ Naming By Clark -the "Stop Work” movement there “Look,” Takeuchi said, and had been carried obt 100 per cent, showed his pay envelopes. He in- One hour before the meeting cheated that not one of them had Is An Honor Says WHADDAYA KNOW! BIBLE, TOO started on Wednesday morning, the hourly rate written in the workers began packing the gath- space p.r.o..v..i.d..e..d.. ..f.o..r.. .i.t. ering place. As they sat through Evidently, he received a dol HCLC President BELONGS ON SUBVERSIVE LIST the morning session, listening to lar an hour for during the week leaders of their union, the men he -worked 64 hours he received The action of Attorney-General By FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS were .thinking of the stand they $58 for 58 hours and on the fol Tom Clark In placing the name of were to take on the Wage issue lowing week, when he put in the Hawaii Civil Liberties. Com It’s getting so you can’t trust anything you read, dear friends of a which has been in process of nego 40 hours, he cashed $46 with the mittee on the list of subversive territorial un-American activities committee. You pick up a book, think tiation for several weeks. six hours overtime carried over organizations may have had its ing to yourself that here is something safe and sound, and first thing In the afternoon. session, the to that week from the previous Inspiration In the Territorial at you know you run across a whole batch of subversive material. men cast their ballots in a vote week. But in the last check torney-general’s office, Robert that favored strike action by a which was handed him by Mr. Greene, HCLC president, - believes. That’s what happened the other day with the Holy Bible. And proportiffn of 8-1. Of the 942 Kaneta, without the envelope “It’s too neatly timed with the after reading several passages in the New Testament, it now becomes (more on page 4) (more on page 7) • push for an un-American activi- my painful duty as a sentinel against subversion to insist that this - ties bill in the legislature to be . well known work be banned as un-American. There are passages merely coincidental,” he told , the which any patriot can tell are nothing but Communist propaganda. RECORD. hiang Unwittingly Gives As for the fact of Clark’s naming Control your revulsion, .in the interest of -Americanism, and turn the organization, Greene sees it-as to Acts 2:44. There, in black and white for all the world to see, is the encouraging. following: Reasons For His Failure "I hope the HCLC, by diligently “And all that believed were together, and had all things in common.” defending our Bill of Rights, will By KOJI ARIYOSHI ment, Chiang said. It will bring continue to be honored by its place To Each According To His Needs The Yangtze Valley—with Nan them "face to-face with the tan ment on Tom Clark’s lists of or If that isn’t bad enough, read on in Acts 2:45: king, Sharighai and other key cities gling mass of military, political and ganizations fighting for true —is the heart of pulsing China. economic problems which will democracy here in America.’’ “And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, eventually result in their down , Greene said also, “HCLC" will as every man had need.” It has been the prize and down fall of many ruling regimes . in fall.” continue to fight on local issues* Now, I submit that this sounds suspiciously like Karl Marx, for China—so rich , and strategically Reason Chiang Failed We are sure that no matter what is it not tho principle of communism to give to each according to his located that foreign powers have Chiang speaks for himself and names we are called by reaction needs? controlled it through puppet-like the Kuomintang. In 1826-27 he was ary government spokesmen, the What’s more, they keep shooting the propaganda line so that If governments. • bought off by the foreign powers people will realize who the real you miss in one place, you’ll get in another, such as in Acts 4:32: Now as the Communist -forces when the Kuomintang and the defenders of their liberties are.” “And the multitude that believed were of one heart and one soul; stream across the Yangtze by hun Communists were pushing north Commenting on Clark’s action* neither said any of them- that ought of the things which he possessed dreds of thousands, with Nanking ward to crush the- warlords and Frank.