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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. Marshall Davis,- noted was his own; but they had all things common.” already in their hands, the Kuo­ push out foreign imperialists from writer and journalist who has mintang forces are crowded into China. Since then he has fought appeared on HCLC forums, said, (Editor’s note: The foregoing and following quotations are ex­ the Communists, and along with “As for calling federal employes tracted from .the Bible and, as they say on certain radio programs, South China. As the sun sets over the Kuo­ them the peasants and workers disloyal if they are members of do not necessarily represent the opinions of this writer or this news­ of China whom the Communists HCLC, it is significant that Tom. paper.) • mintang regime, Chiang Kai-shek comes out of retirement and calls organized and of whom Chiang ■ Clark - is a defendant in a suit But not all the un-American thoughts are centered in the. New for resistance. And in doing so he was afraid. filed by O. John Rogge, former Testament. Go back to Isaiah 65:22 and you will find .this dangerous summarizes the experiences- of the Chiang met up with the “en­ assistant attbrney-gcneral, which propaganda: Kuomintang very neatly in one , tangling mass,” Now the question declares that this same loyalty is, how will the Communists meet order is unconstitutional because Those Who Do Not Work Shall Not Eat paragraph. \ ' The crossing of the Yangtze by it? ■ it denies the constitutional guar­ “They shall not build, and another innabit; they shall not plant, the Communists represents the Last week British warships antees of freedom of speech, (more on page 5) peak of their military/develop­ (more on page 4) thought and association.” Page Two HONOLULU RECORD Thursday, April 28, 1949 Hitler, Still a Hero new draft of a labor bill which observers IN THE BRITISH ZONE of Germany, compare to the Taft-Hartley law in the World Summary U. 8. The provisions of the bill are: a producer of a film titled "The Rebirth of the Nazi” would get all the encourage­ 1. Workers in charge of "confidential in­ ment of occupation authorities. This is the The enemy was not named but every­ reprisals against their families at home if formation” are not permitted to join feeling that is becoming more and more one knew that it consisted of Russia and their relationships are found out. unions. This means In effect, that unions are un-Japanese. widespread as . British authorities have re­ the east European nation^. Geographical­ Not being able to make home port, these fused to show two anti-Nazi movies—the ly, the maneuver was pointed toward those exiles are happy to get shore leave when 2. Unions which the government refuses to U. S. documentary "Nuremberg” and the countries. At the war exercises of U. S. their ships reach foreign ports. This privi­ register will enjoy no legal rights or French film, “Tire Accursed”—to the gen- troops observers were invited from Britain, lege of going ashore has continued for cen­ benefits. eral public. France, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Swed­ turies as practically a birthright of seamen 3. Strikes can be called only after a ma­ “Too hard on the Germans,” wryly com- en and Turkey, countries strategically sit­ of all nations. jority vote of the entire union member­ mented the British officials. uated for a war against Russia and the BUT LATELY FGMU members have ship, by secret ballot. But they did not say it was “too hard east European nations, Russia was not run smack into barriers in U. S. ports. In If an employer' is guilty of unfair labor on the Jews” or “the French” when they invited to the maneuvers. March, in the Baltimore district alone, some practices, unions can only demand a re­ introduced the anti-Semitic film, "Oliver All Europe watched the maneuvers with 100 Greek seamen were deprived of shore turn to the situation before such prac­ Twist” for showing to Germans, and li­ keen interest, for if war comes—and there leave by order of U. 8. immigration offi- ‘ tices began, not new improvements. censed a new German film called “The Last cials. -I. s’ seemed a definite push for one, again the 5. A 30-day cooling off period is required Night,” glorifying Hitler’s occupation of continent would be a battleground, this France, a film condemned by U.' S. au­ The Greek government has supplied before strikes can be called in public time to be left in worse shambles than names for the blacklist and reportedly U. S. utilities. thorities as pro-Nazi. before. immigration officials are making generous Employers have the right to discharge use of it. Besides providing the blacklist, workers for actions connected with la- Mythical Blacklist the Greek government has sent to the THE ENEMY'WAS “mythical” but the bor disputes even while mediation, con- U. S. "a 30-man Greek gestapo headed by ciliation or arbitration proceedings are war games were very much like the real CAPTAIN BLIGH of Mutiny On the an officer of the Greek security police.” stuff as 70,000 American, troops took an Bounty fame, had riothing on the present under way. Greek ''government which reaches out to This handling of seamen is • paying off Not only was the Yoshida government imaginary beating for five days on the dividends to the Greek ship owners who border of Czechoslovakia and Russian-oc­ ports in the seven seas to persecute and learning, fast by imitating U. 8. domestic keep Greek seamen, in line. For a long are making seamen work on any terms goings on, it was picking up angles on for- cupied Eastern Germany and in the final offered them. phase of the giant maneuver, cinched the time the Greek government has been ar- - eign policy, also. A Pacific Pact similar imaginary war. resting and sentencing to death leaders T-H Japanese Version to the Atlantic Pact was its objective, and In the skies the U. S. air force put on 'of the Federation of Greek Maritime it made no secret about it? a mighty show and crushed “enemy” re­ Unions, and it has outlawed the union, STRONG U. S. INFLUENCE was., being BUT THE CABINET, which had been sistance, and the practice went on well but, like the guerrillas in the Gammos felt in Japan and unlike the old days, the shaken up by official corruption, ineffi­ excepting for the breakdown of the “radar mountains, the maritime- group continues to talk was not of “modan gal (modern girl)” ciency and pressures of various sorts, came \wall" in southern Germany. But, boasted survive and even grow. who copied western fashions years ago and in for some strong criticism. the air force, the radar crews spotted “en­ Repression followed repression, but the got severely criticized arid ridiculed for it, The Japanese - Congress of Industrial. emy” aircraft far away, which gave the tottering government has failed to Wipe out but of "un-Japanese” activities, and of the Unions, largest labor federation in the Americans plenty of time. the union. Under its present law, the gov- . Japanese version of the Taft-Hartley law. country with 1,200,000 members, came out ’ ON THE ...GROUND, along a 95-mile emment has. made a complaint about food In copying the American Way, the pres­ against the cold war and for world peace, front, U. S. forces carried on the imaginary on board ship an act of mutiny, subject ent leaders of Japan were coached along and sharply remarked: “The Yoshida cabi- warfare under cover of darkness and at to court martial when the. ship returns .to by U. S. occupation authorities. First, the net seeks to draw Japan into another war dawn took, beachheads. And armored di­ a Greek port. Result of this is predictable. plari was to set up an "un-Japanese ac- by preparing the way for a new fascism. visions rumbled along, shaking the ground Today FGMU members, who number half '• tivities committee,” but this was shelved, To that end it is imposing upon the peo­ as they went, not four years after hos­ the 12,000 Greek seamen now sailing, are temporarily at least, because of strong ple low wages, mass discharge of workers tilities ended on Europe’s battleground of shipping out of non-Greek ports, never re­ pressure from trade unions. and heavy taxation, and is sabotaging ria- two world wars. turning home, constantly worrying about THEN THE IMITATORS produced a tional industries conducive to.peace.’! ;

inclusive and on this there would have* been Victory no quarrel, but jurisdiction was a tough WHILE STUDENTS struck from April National Summary hurdle. Early last week newspapers through­ 11-20 at the City College of New York, de­ out . the country printed a story with bold manding suspension and open trials of two headlines, saying that the navy had quietly professors whom they accuse of anti-Jewish cants racial and religious questions. The sible to belong to organizations ‘combatting laid the keel for a super-aircraft carrier and anti-Negro bias, it was shown in a report said a Jewish student has a 56 per fascism and racial discrimination’ without to be christened USS- United States. survey that such actions paid off hard- cent chance of acceptance by the college ■ desiring to subvert the government of the The publicity was not quiet enough for earned dividends. of his choice, a Catholic a 67 per cent and United States.” the air-force which, heard about it, blew its a Protestant a 77 per cent chance. A nationwide survey by the Anti-De­ Denying that there is any subversive top off and stopped construction of the famation League of B’nai B’rith on anti- But even at this,' taking the U. S. as activity at the university, the ■Chancellor super-carrier by influencing Defense Secre­ Semitism showed that 1948 as a who^gj* a whole, the ledger looked better arid en­ told the committee that there was a cam­ tary Louis Johnson to order the construc­ should go down on “the credit side of the couraging, but far from consummation of pus Communist club. tion halted. The super-carrier plan had been ledger,” because of the “conscientious ef­ the guarantees in the Constitution. AN ADVOCATEL^tif' liberal education, blowing hot and cold for some time, while forts of many Americans who are work­ Hjrtehins^uietly^said: “The study of com­ the navy and air force feuded about juris­ ing to cleanse our nation of anti-Semitism Ideas and Probers munism is not a subversive activity. I diction over strategic bombing. and minority hatred.” SHOOTING EAS is futile. That do not see how the sympathetic feelings of IN NO UNCERTAIN terms the air force SIGNIFICANTLY, the value of FEPC w_a_s t_h_e hce of what Chancellor Robert 10 or 12 students at the university can en­ has informed the whole nation and the laws was pointed out in the survey. In Hut Is of the University of Chicago told danger the state.” world that it has picked 7.0 or more targets states with hon-discrimination statutes only ie Illinois seditious activities investigating Hutchins was another leading educator in Russia to be .bombed by long-range bomb­ one out of 23 job applicants was questioned committee last week. in the country who in recent weeks, has ers, and that its planes can wing to Russian about his religion, while, in other states the Appearing before th committee which spoken out against the repression of ideas cities and back again from present strate­ ratio was one out of four. ’ started its investigation after a number of and the curbing of academic freedom, gic bases. The navy was not to be left Another entry on the credit side of the University of Chicago students had ap- which are becoming intensified. He saw out. The 65,000-ton super-carrier,, which ledger was the decline in overall nurriber peared 'at committee' h gs to protest a damage to the educational system in the would have ferried "atomic bomb” lugging and activity of anti-Jewish-organizations. enactment1 ‘ of anti-subversiVe activities present mass production system where stu- planes, It was argued, would get closer to Twelve new groups, however, were started . measures, Hutchins pointedly t d commit- dents are turned out by tens of thousands the targets and would be a mobile base, in 1948 and this brought the total to 47 tee members that the danger our in­ which can do immense harm that cannot be The navy had not said how many targets such bodies. stitutlons comes “from those who would repaired for a long, long time. in Russia planes from a super-carrier would IN A MAJORITY of colleges the quota mistakenij' repress the free spirit upon , be able to hit, and this lack of aggressive­ system is still operating with 87 per cent of which those institutions are built.” Super-Carrier Feud ness evidently worked against its hopes and non-denominational colleges asking appli- SAID HUTCHINS: “It is entirely pos­ THE NAME. WOULD have been all- ambition.

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Many Critics, Some Followers Merciz/ Car Here Delivers Rice, Help For Seamen Drew Pearson is planning to WASHINGTON (FP) With Authoritative sources say that send the box car from the "Merci" Saves Account 25,000 seamen on the beach today there is much more to be known (Thank you) train that brought out of a total labor force of less about the “resignation" of Dr. gifts for the District of Colum­ The lesson of the four bags of than 100,000, maritime workers Harold Jacobson from the staff bia and Hawaii, to Hawaii. rice is one that a certain King need the same overtime pay pro­ of Kaneohe Hospital than. has In a “Joe to Joe” letter, this in­ St. restaurant keeper won’t forget, tection that other workers have been revealed through official formation was given Joseph Cap- and perhaps it is one many people under the wage-hour law, a Sen­ statements released by the Terri­ sin of 426 Namahana St. by Dele­ should hear about. The restaura­ ate labor subcommittee was told torial Department of Institutions gate Joseph Farrington, teur learned it during the West recently. to the local dailies.. - The delegate wrote Capsin that Coast longshoremen’s strike last Under discussion was S. 653, the These sources state that the he had a “very interesting chat” fall. What’s more, he learned it new version of the administration doctor, who has been the leading- with the columnist, who spoke of from American Factors, long before wage-hour bill. It would raise figure in the Pratt-Jacobson school his plan about the freight car for a university student asked Am­ the minimum wage- to 75 cents and program controversy, was removed Hawaii. - ’ fac about free enterprise and wrote broaden coverage of the law. from his territorial position one of his experience. Hoyt Haddock, speaking for day before his “resignation.” Pearson hopes to visit Hawaii Ten days before the strike, or the CIO maritime committee, sometime but his plans for doing thereabouts, the restaurateur or- Silence as to the reasons for so are still indefinite. said the exemption of seamen the termination • of his services dered four bags of rice at the go- from the overtime provisions of at the hospital remains unbroken, ing rate. He waited, but no de- the bill must be removed. “The although it has been strongly sug­ UWO MEETS TO livery was made. time for extension of the 40-hour week to seamen is long over­ gested that his resignation was Put In Order Early OUSTED—Yale University has re­ accepted after much discussion. PLAN ACTION Then there was a buying splurge, fused to renew the teaching con­ due,” he said, “It is criminal The only way the public officials to continue a long work week for Two Main Objections presaged by headlines in the dail­ tract of Prof. John Marsalka, a in the Territorial Welfare and ies proclaiming a rice shortage. leader of the Progressive party in seamen, rejected by the Ameri­ Dr. Jacobson has also resigned Employment Departments and the. “I didn’t worry,” says the King Connecticut. Charging a violation can people and the Congress a his position as psychiatric advisor legislators will ever know what the St.' man, “because I knew I’d put decade ago for other American of the principles of academic free­ workers.” to the Department of Public In­ workers in Hawaii want is for the- my order in in plenty of time.” dom, Marsalka has appealed to the struction in which capacity he has workers to statj^yhat they want, But about three days after the American Association of Univer-, He also argued that bunk and served without remuneration since Marshall McEuen, educational dir­ rush of buying, he got a little ner­ sity Professors to intervene in his board furnished by ship owners to he volunteered his services five ector of the ILWU, told the mem­ vous since the company had still. behalf. crews should not be included as years ago. bers of the . Unemployed Workers made no delivery, and he called part of wages. He said shipboard Opponents of his program base Organization Of Hawaii last George Brown, manager of Am- sustenance does not help the sea­ their objections chiefly on two Thursday at the AFL hall on fac’s grocery department. Olaa Union Observes man maintain his family ashore, points: The lack of scientific data Queen St. ■ The manager .confirmed the and pointed : out that the U. S. available for study of the type of Mr. McEuen emphasized the original order from his books, Fifth Anniversary Supreme Court and various execu­ classroom-psychiatric guidance need for UWp to put itself into but explained that ■ all; the rice The workers of Olaa Plantation tive agencies have ruled that sub­ which he introduced in Honolulu had been sold during the short­ sistence Is not part of seamen's action immediately. . will observe the fifth anniver­ wages. public schools, and the opinion of The UWO was formally organ­ lived .buying binge. There wasn’t sary of their union’s birth on May some psychiatrists that his "pres- ized at the meeting and three another grain of rice left in all sure” methods may have only standing ■ committees-were' estab- of- Amfac’s warehouses. Were 1, which this year falls on Sun­ RICE DROP short-range effectiveness and lished. They are legislative, ad­ there other items -Amfac could day. - Traditionally the Olaa unit (from page 1) prove detrimental in. the . long run visory and publicity committees. supply? The ‘manager would be of ILWU 142 takes a day off on it was about three weeks ago that by setting up deep psychological Following Mr. McEuen’s speech, glad to give the restaurateur a May 1 to observe the founding day Washington announced the U. S. disturbances within, the chil- priority on hard-to-get goods. will send ho relief to Communist^- dren who have been subjected to legislative action was mapped out. of the union.' This holiday pro­ Tha-next meeting will be held ■ "That’s your final word, is it?” dominated' areas of China. this "pressure.” asked the King St. man. vision is included in the contract. One importer, says that, though at Aala Park, on Thursday, May , This year the Olaa workers will In meeting the first objection. 5, at 1 p.m. “Yes, it is,” replied Mr, Brown. the price of rice is gfc&erally down Dr. Jacobson has pointed out that “Then give me your superior,” spend a quiet May Day, mostly 25 cents per bag, the market has as he and Miss Helen Pratt were the restaurateur said. resting, since they ha^e been work- “firmed up” on the Mainland and working with hundreds of chil­ Manager Makes Delivery Himself ' ing stiff schedules ever since they can, therefore, be expected to stay dren against the handicaps of lim­ WALK WAS EDUCATIONAL The superior told the same story, returned to work after the long reasonably steady here. A con­ ited time and no fund allocations and the restaurateur, unmollified, lockout of last year from which siderable surplus of rice has exist­ it was impossible to set up controls WASHINGTON (FP) — Senator said, “Well, if you ..can’t give me they emerged victorious, ed-on the Mainland, he said, ever or collect data on a scientific basis. Ralph Flanders (R., Vt.) told the the four bags of. rice I ordered, since the government stopped buy­ Due to the newness of the pro- Senate April 18, he took a walk you can consider my account can­ pany’s zeal in keeping its. bar­ ing.. ■. ■ gram it has been impossible to within a few blocks of the Capitol celled.” gain at what he thought , must Another importer stated - frank­ prove or disprove the validity of and saw Housing, conditions which Next morning, bright and early, - have been some monetary loss. ly that a number of retailers have the second objection. shocked him. He recommended the grocery manager appeared at Then the manager enlightened overstocked in "anticipation” of a . that other senators take the same the King St. restaurant in a shiny Guidance Needed him. The four bags had been strike and are now faced with the walk before voting on the general Buick, into which he had loaded taken from the supply set aside prospect of having' their rice get ' However, many parents and housing bill, which includes a slum - the four bags of rice. Amfac had for Amfac employes. The bosses wormy on their hands unless they teachers n o w wondering clearance’ program. kept the faith. had not cut into their profits. unload. This situaton has resulted whether the Department of Pub­ For, a moment, the restaura­ The dividends Of the stockhold­ in fierce competition among small lic Instruction will introduce teur was impressed with the com- ers were secure! merchants and retailers generally. something in its place—and if so, what? 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CHIANG UNWITTINGLY GIVES Proof Of Loss Peiping Story REASONS FOR HIS FAILURE Eye Witness Reports On (from page 1) Here are some facts which must Can Get Gaming exchanged fire with Communist be striking him between .the eyes and Kuomintang shore batteries.. as. he makes his last desperate Loser A Refund In Britain there .'were loud out­ move to get the U.S. involved on his Communist Occupation cries as to why His Majesty’s side, for that is the only salvation By ALLAN BEEKMAN ships were in China’s inland for the Kuomintang. Last Thursday I gained some in­ When the Chinese Communists' “The-mafToh the street just stood waters, and in a hot war zone. * That a year after V-J Day, sight into the nature of what can came Into Peiping, the price of and looked,” he says. “He didn’t Putung, across from Shanghai a People’s Army base Of guerrilla 44 be meant by a “fleecing" case. I food went down. The price of make any demonstrations.From is already in Communist hands and fighters 100,000 strong had been had been called in a special panel manufactured goods went up what I heard, it was the same observers are watching whether established in north Szechwan of six prospective jurors from slightly, and the rate of.inflation thing in Nanking the other day.” Shanghai' will be next or Hang­ (Western China.) which the fourth division of the was considerably retarded. Top Officials Replaced chow? Some foreigners are evacu­ * That, at the same period, first circuit court wished to fill a Those were reports brought to Peiping’s city service organiza­ ating Shanghai, and their govern­ two mobile units of anti-Chiang vacancy on the 12-mah jury. Honolulu by an American who was tions—police, firemen, etc.—were ments are telling them to leave. guerrillas, about 10,000 each, In Peiping dining the first two Challenges had exhausted the left largely intact by the Com­ But businessmen, intent on doing moved freely in south Kweichow. months of Communist occupation munists, the American says, though business with China; are trying » That, a year and a- half aft­ . original jury panel with only 11 and who left China last weekend. good men and top officials were generally re­ hard to remain there and carry er V-J Day, 75 per cent of the “To bring the price of1 food placed. There was little or no on trade relations with the Com­ rural areas of Kwantung-Pruv- true being select-^ down,” he says, “the communists ed to hear the . looting and almost no disorder. munists as they have not been able ince (the province of Canton) went out into the areas 30 miles “The soldiers were very well- to do with the Kuomintang since was under the rule of local, anti­ civil suit of San- from the city and brought food in. tiago C. Edrada behaved,” he says, "and there V-J day. Kuomintang People’s govern­ We heard that the price of food was no complaint that they mis- Trade Is Possible ments. who alleged that was up in the places where they Babiano Argayo- treated anyone. It was im­ The Communists have time and * That in 1948, guerrilla forces did the buying.” possible for,, foreigners to talk again announced their desire to of Chekiang Province took Ning so and. Heninia- U. S. Agencies Ignored to any of the high-ranking offi­ trade with U. S. and Britain, and Po, the second largest city, and no Dumag had Official American government cers, though.” already the British and the Dutch held it for six days, finally with­ agencies in Peiping were neither Students of Peiping’s several uni­ businessmen have entered into drawing of their own volition. “fleece” him out harassed nor pampered, this ob­ versities were, however, “jubilant,” negotiations with Communists in * That guerrilla bands have of $2,200 in a coin - tossing g server says. They were , ignored. the American says, and they staged North China. ranged the length-of the Shang­ The Communists took the attitude large demonstrations that includ­ One of the key questions today hai-Nanking railroad spasmodi­ game last June. We six pro- Mr. BEEKMAN that since the U, S. doesn’t recog­ ed mass meetings and welcoming is: What position will the U. S. cally ever since 1946, and that nize their government, they are posters. that were displayed on take? Will men like Dr. Hu Shih many of the tc^Jps sent out to spective jurors were seated, took the oath, and the judge briefly ex­ under no obligation to recognize walls in different parts of the city. who recently passed through Ho­ subdue them have joined them the government of the U. S. Kuomintang- Money Exchanged nolulu be used to set up a liberal - instead. plained the nature of the case. A name was drawn and the man - An ’ exception was the U. S. Kuomintang money was made faced regime, which the U. S. can Today, Kuomintang troops are Information Service (the coun­ illegal shortly after the Commu­ support without much embarrass­ going over to the Communists by among us to whom it belonged terpart in China of the Voice nist entry; and for a limited time, ment? regiments and-divisions. arose, seated himself in the one - of America) which was not al­ the people were- given the oppor­ Another question is: How long As this takes place, right in the vacant seat in- the jury box and lowed to issue its releases after tunity of changing such Kuomin­ will the war last and how will the rich Yangtze Valley from where submitted to : interrogation con­ the first,few wbeks, the Ameri­ tang currency as they had for Kuomintang fall' back? once long ago the British were cerning his qualifications; can says. Foreign -correspondents “People's Dollars” at the rate of Formosa is the last possible re­ chased out and from which’ their Law On Gambling Money were allowed to operate freely 100 gold yuan (KMT) to 1 Peo­ treat—for the Kuomintang. warships have now' withdrMta, a' “Would you,”; Robert Hogan, the until the . CommmiiBt command ple’s dollar. Black marketing has —J Chiang Knows Truth pattern of national sovereignty is attorney for the plaintiff; Inquired, in Peiping objected to dispatch­ not been eliminated, the.-Ameri­ Chiang knows that South China being established, for. the first-time “If yoii found the preponderance of es in which they described the can says, though it is of less scope is lost, and Western China also. in many centuries. the evidence faVbred my client, ar­ reception of Communist troops than, in. 'Kuomintang cities. • The rive’at a verdiqt favorable to him?" by the populace as'“unenthusias- U. :S. dollar had an exchange val­ The prospective juror, a bank tic.” ueof 1 U. S. dollar to 7,000 Peo­ Fence Builder Is Waipahu Meeting employe, seemed'to have difficulty The American saw the entry ple’s dollars, he says. When he ar- in arriving at a decision on this of the Communist troops and (from page 1) ' question. Perhaps the unfamiliar- he agrees with the opinion of the rate there ' was $1 U. S. to 20,000 Scotched By BBB members who voted, 832 voted • -ity of his- surroundings made him correspondents that the reac­ Kuomintang gold yuan. Twenty to strike to win the 14%-cent nervous, perhaps the legal terms tion of the city’s residents was days later, the rate was $1 U. S. Honolulu had one fence-build­ per hour raise the union is ask­ confused him, perhaps he thought one of apathy. to 480,000 gold yuan. ing “contractor” whom it was ing of the Oahu Sugar Co. jury duty a poor substitute for his smarter not to pay until'his jobs Along with the unit at Lihue, work at the bank. were finished. Recently, a man Kauai^ the Waipahu unit is the “By the prejponderance of evi­ made an agreement with him to first of Local 142 to hold a “Stop dence we mean the weight of evi­ —..... ===== build a stone fence. The con­ Work” meeting for the purpose of dence,” the judge explained. . “He tractor was to perform the work discussing present negotiations is asking if the weight of evidence —the client to buy the material. CLAIRE CHENNAULT, former VOTERS SHOULD not be awed with employers. for the plaintiff outweighed that Flying Tiger, presently employed by the imposing mein of, Sena­ The client paid $60 for ma­ Union men and leaders also dis­ for the defendant, even slightly, by Chiang Kai-shek, looked thin, terial and work began, but after cussed recent layoffs by sugar would you find a verdict favorable haggard and old on his stopover tors and representatives they have two days, the client made the companies and subsequent unem­ to the plaintiff. At this point,” in Honolulu. The reason .the 'elected. It was a point made by mistake of paying the contractor ployment. he added, turning to us and hold- $100. After that, the contractor newspaper picture of him wasn’t some ladies of the auxiliary of the At Wednesday's meeting, the ■ ing up his right index .finger for so bad was that he perked up International Typographical Union disappeared arid the client was workers crowded the Japanese So­ attention, “I want to explain that quickly and mugged into the cam­ left with the material on his cial Club to hear Jack Hall. ILWU under territorial law if a person era just in time. Even back in the other night. A few men had hands, plus the bare beginnings regional director, tell them: “You ' has lost money to another, and he Kunming, he was known as a balked at telling legislators what of a fence. are nere to determine me cause proves that the money was lost in man who liked his publicity . . . they want on the grounds that they ' He put in his beef to the Better of Hawaii^ workers. The deter­ gambling, the money must be re­ One phase of Chennault’s feud were “too little” people . . . Which Business ■ Bureau and found the mination and solidarity you dem­ funded to him.” with Stilwell was the air general's recalls the preface Joe Mitchell “contractor” has had a bad record onstrate here will spread to the The plaintiff and defendants,. wrote in his book, “McSorley’s ever since 1945. Other cases were jealousy of Stilwell in the matter Wonderful Saloon.” It was: other islands.” whose somewhat shabby appear­ of publicity. almost identical,. the highest nBtll also said the union must ance seemed to belie their reputed * ♦ V * “There are nd little people in this amount of the. clip being $350. fight as strongly as possible to ability to bandy about $2,200 in a JAMES R. McDONOUGH, exec­ book. These people are as big as In 1947, he was arrested and gain equal work opportunities coin-tossing game, listened glum­ you are, whoever you are.” charged with embezzlement, utive secretary of the Hawaii Edu­ * ♦ * * for union members who are un­ ly to these exchanges. cation Association, is contradicted gross cheat, and obtaining mon­ employed because of recent lay­ The bank employe, after further ey under false pretenses. by Dr. Allan Saunders of the U. of UNION MEN FIND out What offs — especially the Filipino hesitation, cautiously agreed that H. in the. matter of the Jamieson happens to ohe: another, regardless Reporting the case, a man from members who were imported into under the circumstances outlined Report on the Reinedke Case. of the traditional, lack of enthusi­ the Better Busmess Bureau com­ the Territory in 1946. . he would arrive at a verdict favor­ mented: "If only the public would McDonough told the RECORD he asm of most newspapers for union The meeting was presided over able to the plaintiff. This admis­ had not seen the unpublished re­ news. The Marine Cooks & Stew­ learn to investigate before they’ by Tadashi Ogawa, president of invest any money, . they’d save sion did not appear to please M. port and that it was in the hands ards’ office here has just received the Waipahu unit, and also heard Lono Heen, the attorney for the of Dr. Saunders. But the professor an aepount from Mine, Mill and themselves a lot of money and the Louis Goldblatt, ILWU interna- police a lot of work.” defense. says he kept it only three days and Smelter .Workers (CIO) on the tional secretary-treasurer, describe. Not “Lead” But “Evidence” returned it long ago. Mainland, describing the goon- union-busting techniques of the\ "Do you mean,” Mr. Heen ex­ * * * ♦ r activity of the Murray faction Mutual Tax Shift bosses in- the use of red-baiting claimed nervously, when the de- RICHARD KAGEYAMA is the against its opponents at Besse­ and attempted bargaining with \ fense’s turn to question the pro­ only member of the Board of Su­ mer, Ala., recently . . . Nor do (from page 1) separate groups. ' \ spective juror arrived, "that you pervisors who is also a member union men pull punches in their Other Units ^Represented 'would reach a favorable verdict of the United Public Workers of communications. Addressed to through what he believes, unpffi- Among the assembled men were for the plaintiff if the evidence America. Philip Murray, a part of the mes­ cially,- may have been an “inad­ representatives of Kahuku and is\weighted down with a lot of sage tells of . a union . official who vertency.” The, shifting of the Ewa plantations, also under Oahu lead?” ONLY THE FIRST three direc­ is in the hospital, in critical con­ tax is merely a correction of the Sugar “Oo, management. A repre­ "Wait a moment,” the judge tors on the board of 14 which dition, "as the result of a mur­ inadvertency, he thinks. sentative of the unit at Olaa ex­ remonstrated gently, "we are talk­ runs the Honolulu Rapl,d Transit derous attack last night by a gang Another source at Mutual be- pressed thanks to the Waipahu ing about evidence, not lead.” . Company have more stock than of hoodlums led by Nick A- Zona- ■ lieves the tax was shifted after a workers for aid given the Big Is­ The juror was accepted and we George F. Tobin, who owns 660 rich, acting as your personal rep­ meeting of directors which de­ land workers during last winter’s others were excused. And so I shares. Tobin is also president; resentative.” The message 'furth­ cided the .profits are not high lockout at Olaa. know nothing of this particular of the Amalgamated Association ‘ er tells how the Murray faction enough to warrant continued pay­ . The “Stop Work” movement at case beyond what I have related. of Street, Electric : Railway and uses race-baiting to try to split ment of a tax which could legally Waipahu became complete Tues­ But what stands out most promi­ Motor Coach Employes of Ameri­ the union in Dixiecrat-land. be shifted to the storekeepers. day night at 11:30 when the last nently in my mind was the re­ ca, Local 1173. That’s the other * * * * Some shopkeepers see the shift workers knocked off. Most men mark of the. judge that, under ter­ union beside the Transit Workers LEAVING THE meeting Mon­ as a new and irritating increase had quit earlier, at 10 o’clock, when ritorial law, If a person has lost Union (Independent) which is to their overhead. day night for formulation of a • the main mill, .'the wgter pump money to another, and proves that headed by Art Rutledge. Amal­ Christian Manifesto to combat the “It means,” said one, “I’ll have and the station were shut down. it has been lost in gambling, the gamated has 14 members. Commuhist'Manifesto, a Gadabout . to figure out some way to get The meeting continued until money must be refunded. ♦ ♦ ♦ * a little more out of the busi­ 3:30 . p.m., and men and women This Is Indeed an, interesting FOLLOWING THE Tenney pat­ acquaintance heard the following ness, because it means my ex­ who had turned' out stood solid point, for it appears to alter dras­ tern, Charles Kauhane replied to dialogue: penses are that much higher.” . .together, their morale high. tically the risks in gambling. In Gadabout's note about his racist- “Wh”’ do they make all that fuss “This is a warning to the gambling for large sums, for exam­ tinged attack on Morris Murray about tnat Communist Manifesto? An arms program expected to management that union mem­ ple, the risk of losing might seem by calling the RECORD “Commu­ It’s old stuff. It was written a cost between $1 billion and $2 bil­ bers at Waipahu will stand pat considerably smaller than/the risk nist,” He used the sanie kind of hundred years ago.” lion is reportedly being drafted on their wage demand, and for of not having sufficient evidence counter against the ILWU and "I don’t know,” said the other by the U. S. for supplies to signa­ better working conditions,” to prove the loss, and/the manner against some Democrats he doesn’t guy. “It must be dynamite. I’ll tories of the North ^Atlantic pact. “Castner” Ogawa said. of it, in court.- \ - like. have to read it some time.” Thursday, April 28, 1949 HONOLULU RECORD Page Five CONGRESSMAN DRIPP By YOMEN Tom Clark Is Defendant Griffith Puzzled In Suit vs. Loyalty Probe By Manifesto, WASHINGTON—President Tru­ Of the 130 known cases, he said, I man's loyalty order is unconstitu­ 73 involved Negroes, 45 dews-and HI e Tells Group tional, according to a brief filed in only 12 white Gentiles. This suit, U. S. District Court by O. John first full-scale legal test of the By JACK KIMBALL " Rogge, former assistant attorney loyalty order by government work­ Some 50 people gathered at Cen­ general, on behalf of the Federal ers, asks the court to enjoin fur- . Employes Defense Committee. ther loyalty proceedings and to 1tral Union Church parish house ‘ This committee is composed of reinstate all suspended employes 1Monday evening to set in motion 26 postal workers. Its members are to their former jobs until the case the formulation of a~ Christian 12 Negroes, eight. Jews and six is finally Redded. ] white Gentiles employed in Cleve­ Manifesto to challenge the pro­ land, Philadelphia, Detroit, New Violates Constitution g| ram of the Communist Manifesto York and Plainfield, N. J. The Rogge’s brief contends that the written by Marx and Engels a . Negroes include the president and loyalty check violates at least four hundred years ago. past presidents of the National sections of the Constitution—those The meeting was presided over Alliance of Postal .Employes which guaranteeing freedom of speech, by Dr. William Shimer of the Uni­ for years has been carrying on a thought, assembly and association, versity of Hawaii. A steering com­ militant struggle against job dis­ and protection against discrimina­ mittee, comprised of Dr. Shimer, crimination in the postal service. tion on account of race, color or Robert Craig,'Robert Griffith and Rogge pointed out that nearly creed. Eugene McKibben, has been hold­ 90 per cent of the employes whose Named as defendants are Atty. ing meetings every Saturday aft­ loyalty had been questioned a—re Gen. Tom Clark, Seth W. Robin­ ernoon since January, doing pre­ Negroes and Jews. son, chairman of the loyalty review liminary work on this document. Most of the white Gentiles board and his associated mepibers, Mr. Craig gave a short talk on volved in the probe have been ac- and Postmaster General Jesse M. “The Life and Times of Karl tive in the fighting' against job Donaldson and the three members Marx.” Dr. Shimer gave his in­ discrimination. of the post office loyalty board. terpretation of the Communist ■ Manifesto, stating that this pro­ gram was not an attack upon it, Bible On Subversive List but was rather an attack upon ■ (from page 1) the problems of the community. and another eat: for as the days of. a tree are! the days of my people, Mr. Griffith, deputy . attorney and mine elect shall; long enjoy the work oL their hands.” ' general, also talked ,briefly, on. the Many of the apostles were radicals, workingjigainst the established Manifesto,. stating. that it was a economy. Take St. James, for instance. In the zfifth chapter, fourth wonderful document. “After^study­ YOU STOP tri? YOUGS WELCOME TO INVESTIGATE US. verse, he says: , ing it,” he declared, “you either come out a Communist or are able “Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, ■ to point out its faults;" But after which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth.” reading it three times, he said, he Asking About Wharf Toll . Now, doesn’t that sound exactly like one of these ILWU agi­ still did not understand it and his tators arguing for'higher wages? listeners were left'in some uncer­ There are also'other un-American passages that cannot.be over­ tainty, as to 'where Mr. Griffith Gets Writer Big Runaround looked. Obviously seeking to promote class strife, St. James 2:6 reads: had come out. r “But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and Seven committees were set up By STAFF WRITER “Now, Dr. Nebulung. some doc- draw you before the judgment seats?” . for studyr of different aspects of Read on in St. James 5:1: “ the proposed Christian Manifesto tonnage charge that your com- a lot of money, for salaries, par- . and all members of the meeting mittee ; collects goes for public ticularly when the money comes “Go'to now, ye rich men, weep, and howl for your miseries that were asked to join the committee health programs and ho.w much for ' from voluntary tonnage tax paid by shall come upon you.” of their choice. It is expected , that tourist promotion?” importers. What; is your com­ Jesus Perverted The Nation With Subversive Ideas the proposed Manifesto will not be This was the question asked ment?” he was asked. These are the subversive ideas which we find sprinkled through, completed .for perhaps a year, , Dr. R. G. Nebulung, executive di­ “You need a staff. We need a the Bible, and which were the foundation of early Christianity. These After all other questions from rector and secretary of the Pub­ staff. That’s how work is done.” were the doctrines, which caused Jesus to be brought before the Roman the audience had been answered, lic Health Committee of the Ho­ Comment By Doctors equivalent of our un-American activities committees to face radical­.a man arose from the back row, nolulu Chamber. of Commerce. * “But there are numerous doc­ charges,/for it,.plainly.states in .St, Luke. 23:2: ...... stating that te was a , visitor in “There’s' all' the information you Honolulu, "and* suggested. (that a need in the pamphlet I gave you,” tors in town who are devoting "And they , began to accuse him saying, We found this fellow, per­ half a day, one -day and sometimes verting the nation.” committee be set up. to study the Dr. Nebulung answered, more to charity work, giving free revolution that is going on all over “But one answer rd like from I need not go on. It is obvious that these dangerous, radical and the world and particularly in our you is not in the pamphlet. How time to needy patients. Some say subversive doctrines must be kept away from the people of this re­ they would like to know who gets public. A real Christian must believe and act upon his Bible. But own country today. He consid­ much, of the wharf toll you. the $28,000. They say they don’t- ered this to be the subject- which ■ collect from importers goes to to “have all things common” is contrary to our way of life. It’s needed the immediate attention of the public health program and and the hospitals aren’t getting un-American. substantial appropriations from Let’s face it, fellow patriots. You can’t be both a Christian and all community groups. The chair­ h“v™ ™J wharf toU bollection.” man agreed and stated that it You must ask Dr. Phillips. He s. “well” Dr Nebulung an American.. would be studied in the different y°h the m- hel^the said, “we report and has lots in it. And if We separated. He Was hur- committees. formation. , “Henty?” you want more information, don’t rying toward the Territorial build- The next meeting will be held ■ Dr. Nebulung. paused when in­ on May 23 in the same room. formed that Dr. Lyle G. Phillips, “Quite a bit.” hesitate; come to us.” ing and his meeting. chairman - of the Public Health “The Kuakini Hospital asked for. Committee, had passed the buck $^W for audio-visual education only a few hours, before and had for nurses and internes. Is it true thrown the ball into his lap. Then, that your committee gave $1,800?” in a fast change of pace he said, “Yes.” MAY DAY GREETINGS putting his hand on the writer’s A spokesman at the Kuakini arm: “Only the board of directors Hospital said, when contacted, that can give you that information.” the hospital had a hard time in “Don’t you have that informa­ getting the amount. tion with you? After all, this is' A member of a smaller hos­ To All Workers Of Hawaii a public health program sup­ pital staff told the RECORD ported by. a voluntary tonnage that his hospital, not being rep­ tax levied on freight coming in­ resented on the Public Health from to the Territory. The public Committee, did not. have ' asX should know the details. And' much chance of getting appro- \ you are the director.” . pyiations as others with repre- 1 UNITED SUGAR WORKERS But that information about the sentation. \ split of funds between ’ public ‘ Looking through the list of of­ health work and tourist promo­ ficers and members of the . com­ ILWU (CIO) LOCAL 142, UNIT 3 OLAA, HAWAII tion, he said, was known only to mittee for 1948, this writer found the board-of directors. •39 haole names and one Oriental, - ON OUR FIFTH ANNIVERSARY Only a “Worker” a Uichi Kanayama., “Now I’m only a worker here," Dr. Nebulung said he had a (This militant, fighting unit was born on May 1, 1944) just like you on your newspaper. meeting so we walked from his What are you on your newspaper?” office in the Dillingham Building - SUMMARY OF MEMBERSHIP ACTIVITIES: he queried. toward the Territorial public health Here I asked him: “Last year building. ■ Consistently conducted a militant fight against enemies of the 10 cents a ton public health Handled By Government tonnage charge netted about $100,- “There are_ various people who workers within and without the trade union movement 000. How much did you spend for say. that the' tonnage tax should public health?" be handled by the government, (1) Developed militant leaders Dr. Nebulung answered thjrt~ all- in one way. or another," -I com­ (2) Led the sugar workers in 1946 sugar strike information was in the pamphlet. mented. “The cost of administration of "We do a lot of work. Now we (3) Led the sugar workers in 1947 against Amos Ignacio’s phoney the $100,000, - according to in­ are busy with the clean-up cam­ formation brought out in the paign. When you work hard and 'company union recent Senate hearing, was do public service, people hardly $28,000 in salaries ...” " notice your work.” (4) Smashed employers’ wholesale wage cut and liquidation threat "That’s not administration,” he • “People say this tonnage in the 1948 sixty-eight days lockout explained. "That’s for staff. You - charge administered by" the have a staff, too, on your news- Chamber of Commerce gives it *(5) Mhde innumerable gains since its birth paper, like a linotypist, reporter, a strong political leverage. Any editor and so on. How big a staff comment?” do you have?” he asked. “Read our report. It’s a good Page Six HONOLULU RECORD Thursday, April 28, 1949 °O° PALACE NOTES °oo (from page 1) to extend leases on land she owned their grunts and groans, but she in the Kona district. ..” The ab­ our sports world probably knows they were hurt sentee landlord told the House and the audience what a model land­ terribly. lord she was. And Kep. Robert L. Hind Jr., By Wilfred Oka Kona Republican, excused him­ AVIATION GAS TAX self from voting because he has The Senate’s been wrangling "pecuniary interest” as a land­ over tax and money but in passing lord in Kona. Nielsen later com­ SB'512 and 513, they’ve voted to What Cooks With the “Big Duke”? * mented that "no vote” was as give Mainland airlines much more | ' - ■ good as “nay.” than a cool million which right­ Bernard Big Duke ’ Docusen, one-time contender -for the welter- I know Kona very w&ll, just as fully belongs to the Territory. The bills propose a 50 per cent weight championship, now rates the number eight spot in thej^pril well as these representatives. I’ve Ring Magazine. Leading him'in the number three position is Hawaii's raised coffee at one time or an­ reduction in aviation gasoline tax other, and I know Nielsen wasn’t (from five cents to two and a Frankie Fernandez, topped only by Freddie Dawson and the Cuban stretching his imagination when half cents) and an increase in Kid Gavilan. he spoke of the “dying community landing charge. The net I3ss~ to of Kona” that must be saved with Hawaii in the next biennium would This is the same Docusen whom sports writers tabbed as a possible longer leases. be $733,650, conservatively figured. champion. In recent months he has been worked over by Champion During the Senate hearing on Ray “Sugar” Robinson and kayoed in the sixth by Freddy Dawson. Nielsen represents Kona, the these bills, Joseph Petrowski, 1,000 farmers and the merchants Sr., spoke as a public traveler. His most recent fight held in San. Francisco against unrated Bobby who depend on the farmers. Rich­ Jones in a dull 10-rounder shows that the “Big-Duke” is slowing ardson? I never knew there were He pointed out facts and fig­ so many landlords there to elect ures showing how much more down. That seems to be the consensus of opinion of those who saw her into office. Or did she betray Mainland airfields charged air­ the Docusen-Jones fight.' her voters? And Hind? He might lines for landing, and tonnage, just as well say" “I fooled you too, than airfields here do. Among those who saw the Docusen-Jones fiasco was Joseph guys. I’m here to protect the Hind Senators Herbert Lee and Wil­ Kealalio, known as “Joe Blur” on Honolulu’s waterfront, who was in liam Heen voted against the cut San Francisco as a delegate to the ILWU convention. Says Joe: interest. Period.” in airlines revenue.' Why did The Nielsen bill was defeated the others vote tagive the Main­ “Against. Bobby Jones, Bernard Docusen didn’t look like the 14-13. Tragic, yes, and the comic land carriers such gravy? same ’Big Duke’ we heard so much about. He’s been rated better relief came when Rep. Flora » » * « than his kid brother Maxie, but we saw that the ’Little Duke’ who Hayes, Oahu Republican, called PRIMARY AGAIN fought on the same card against Alfredo Escobar appeared much HB 222 communistic. Nielsen Anti-closed primary bloc in the better than ‘Big Duke.’ stood up and gave her a chunk House this time tried to abolish of American history, that had primary elections altogether, GOOD NEIGHBOR—Josie Bonnil. “We see where ’Big Duke’ is going to fight Frankie Fernandez. a deadly parallel. through HB 1200. Rep. Thomas la hopped over from Cuba to play I understandTingside is 10 bucks. In San Francisco w$ saw a double Rep. Hayes lashed at the Ad­ Sakakibara led the fight. Rep. main event, featuring, the two Docusen brothers for five bucks. .When in the Miami Beach Good Neigh­ is the promoter here going to make a one-buck general admission vertiser .for misrepresenting her Kenneth Olds switched sides to bor tennis matches. She didn’t previous day’s statement, saying . deal' for the public?" oppose HB 1200, and threw the win on the courts but she copped- that she “objected to being ‘forced treasure into a deadlock. / When questioned, on the-relative merits of Frankie Fernandez and a much more winning title-—Queen Bernard Docusen, big Joe Blur smiled and said: “Fernandez.” of the Tournament. . Bears Of Kalu Creek Prove The Laugh of the Week- BLAKE CLARK IS Branch Rickey and the Reserve Clause An Associated Press story which-was carried' by a local daily last Smarter Than Some People COMING TO VISIT week, dealt with the “reserve clause" in organized baseball. Branch ■ ’ Dr. Blake Clark, roving reporter Rickey, president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, speaking before the Ad­ By TINY TODD paw-widths of being naif as big for the Reader’s Digest, will visit vertising Club in Baltimore,-said in all seriousness: It was a cold day, even for the as mine. So it’s for the good of Hawaii in August 'or September. ice-bound Arctic, but the old polar “The reserve clause is opposed by persons of ‘avowed Com­ the Kalu Creek community that “I’m coming in the back way munist tendencies.’” . bear was too intent on the matter everyone contribute fish to me so this time on the last lap of a before him to mind the cold. He I can keep my belly in proper trim. round-the-world trip? Going to He added further that “persons opposing the reserve clause deeply was known as, "Big Belly” among We decided that a long time ago. Europe first,” he wrote Koji Ari­ resent the continuance^ of our national pastime.” his fellows and enjoyed the en­ W^ decided - that the only way yoshi of the RECORD. vious admiration of all whose bears can advance, till they all Author of books, including “Re­ What’s the background of the so-called-“reserve clause?” Briefly, pa^cjjg? measured less. have big bellies like mine is to build member Pearl Harbor,” Dr. Clark the clause prevents any player from accepting more profitable; em­ Today all the bearg of the right mine up as an inspiration to oth­ is well known in the islands. He ployment from another club. It chains him to his job until' the em­ bank of Kalu Creek were 'assem­ ers." taught at the University of Ha­ ployer wants to ge^rid of him. It is one of the relics of the ''indentured bled before Big Belly to discuss a “The profit-motive, men call it,” waii for several years. slave era. matter of great importance—the Lofty interposed. Danny Gardella, a major league ball player, jumped the majors defection of Lefty, one of the ARITHMETIC FOR younger bears. “Now that's what I mean," raged to play with the then popular ant! money-making Mexican League. “Fellow bears,” Big Belly be­ Fish Face. “He’s always talking HOUSEWIVES The major leagues subsequently barred him from organized baseball gan, “we are here to investigate like a man. If that isn’t un-bear- Some simple arithmetic to help in the U. S. ‘the Honolulu Advertiser. Because and Ward’s, were found to lead Rowland Castile, Palmolive, Conti in his newspaper he directs edi­ to excessive dryness of the scalp, ’ Castile, Breck and Woodbury Co­ In a six page arbitration decision handed dowjt^Monday, George especially if-used as the directions coanut Oil Castile. Bicknell ruled out "any specific increase in rates of pay” for workers torial support of angry condemna­ indicate—on dry, rather than covered by an agreement between Dairyworkers Union Local 946 and tion of forces striving for civil lib­ - wetted hah-. Pot Luck is a digest of articles Dairymen’s Association. erties, anti-racial discrimination Ordinary bar toilet soap was Tlie decision was handed down less than 10 days following com­ and fair treatment of labor. Be­ appearing in Consumer Reports, cause his newspaper, both in its . found to give a good and inex­ the monthly magazine published pletion of arbitration hearings which culminated months -of un­ pensive shampoo. It takes longer successful negotiations between the AFL union and the company. news and editorial columns, fo­ by Consumers Union, 38 E. First ments class hatred. to work up sufficient lather and St., New York 3, N Y., available Five changes in favor of Dairyworkers Union Local 946 in its ■requires longer rinsing to make by individual subscription at $5 dispute, with Dairymen's Association were awarded by arbitrator H. Alexander Walker, president sure of removing any shreds of a year. Product ratings are based George W. Bicknell. of American Factors. Because he soap—but otherwise, ordinary soap on samples purchased by CU in They are: 1. The upgrading of 26 employes with wage Increases is an arch-enemy of,.labor which will do the job. the open market. < of from .02 to 21 cents per hour. makes possible the huge income’ 2. Ten retail relief drivers receive the highest earnings of routes of his organization arid maintains Gypped In Pay relieved instead of the average earnings, as at present. for him his high position in the economic scale; He proved this in- (from page 1) sentative come but I don’t know 3. Twenty-nine employes have their hours reduced4 8f rhoomurs the recent Olaa. Plantation fiasco with hours and deductions writ­ who,’” Takeuchi stated. ■ to 40 hours per week with consequent pay increases of from. 16 to in which he employed newspaper ten on it, Takeuchi- was paid Everyone, except two, satisfied 44 cents per hour. ; advertising to embitter the people $31.04 for 48 hours of work. - the superintendent and the con- 4. Employes are to receive half-pay for holidays not worakgeda.inst plantation workers on a "I asked the contractor for the ■ tractor’s brother by saying that 5. All employes to get two weeks sick leave after one year’s -serv­ •'premise 'which he later found envelope and he said it Is at unions are terrible. ice. At present, employes get one week after a year’s service and completely untenable. Wheeler Field, way on the other “Since I did not say anything, two weeks only after • 10 years. side of the island,” said Takeuchi. the bass’ brother said to me, ’If Bicknell wrote in his arbitration decision that he found no Alfred L, Castle. Because, as an Must Pay Overtime you join union, and strike, you attorney for the Damon Estate, Checking with: the Federal wage starve,’ ”, Takeuchi added, Corn-' evidence that would justify a general increase of wages, nor to he endeavored to railroad, through and hour division of the labor de­ 5 establish parity of wages of local dairy workers with those of Los meriting that the talk emphasized a special hearing of the City partment, the RECORD was in­ that union -and strike were the Angeles as the union asked. Bicknell also rejected the union’s de­ Planning Commission, an accept- ______mand for the establishing of a benefit-welfare. fund because, he said, formed that since the contractor same.... ■■ ■ ance of subdivision"'plans in the ' was packing and crating iiouse- The other, wha made no com­ the proposal was too vague. * Damon Tract which’ would have hold goods of army, navy and ma­ All wage increases are to be made effective March 1, or re­ ment about unions was: a Puerto meant heavy financial losses and rine personnel for shipment to the Rican crater who had. worked for troactive for seven weeks. the destruction of hoipes of hun­ Mainland, the employer, who deals the army before in the same ca­ dreds of leaseholding families. in Interstate commerce, comes un­ pacity for 41-30 an hour; He com­ der the Fair Labor Standards Act Waipahu-Lihue Stop-Work Meetings W. Harold Loper, Territorial Su- plained, according.’to .Takeuchi, - perintendent of Public- Instruc­ which calls for a 40-hour week and that he was underpaid by Mr. A strike ballot was scheduled to be issued yesterday to ILWU workers tion. - Because in repudiation of time and a half on extra hours. Kaneta and he finally quit. at the Oahu Sugar Co. at a 24-hour stop-work meeting which began at his own convictions he obeyed Even if Mr. Kaneta came under Filipinos Feel Discrimination 10 p. m. Tuesday night, ending at the same hour last night. orders that struck a heavy blow the Territorial Wage Hour Law, The contractor hires numerous The meeting, timed so- that night shift workers could go back on at civil rights in Hawaii when he he would have to pay overtime Filipinos who have been laid off the job last night, was designed to explain the issues of the present "ordered the suspension of two ex­ over 48 hours. from the. plantations. Some of contract negotiations and other related issues to Waipahu workers. emplary and highly-efflcient.mem- Both the Territorial and Federal" them have resentfully; told Takeu- The ballot reads: bers of the Territorial teaching labor department officials wtere chi that since they are Filipinos staff. Because in so doing he set surprised to learn that Mr. Kaneta they are not even getting. $1 an "Do you-authorize the Negotiating Committee. United Sugar Work­ had juggled Takeuchi’s hours, ers, ILWU Local 142, to call a strike againW your company in the event a pitiful example to the boys and hour. girls, young men and young wom­ which already had surpassed the ; "But what can they do. They the Committee is unable* to reach an agreement in the present wage dis- straight-time limit anyway. pute?”- en who, from their classrooms, can’t read, some of them. They should look up with pride and Anti-Union Talk are afraid to talk because work­ Spaces are provided for a "yes” or "no” answer. trust ?to the head of their school Takeuchi pointed out the strong ers are a dime a dozen now and Another 24-hour stop work meeting is scheduled at Lihue Sugar system. anti-labor bias of Mr. Kaneta’s the contractor knows it I myself, Co. from 6:30 a.m. Thursday to 6:30 a.m. Friday. As at the Oahu superintendent, who told the men did not know what the scooe was. Sugar Co., Louis Goldblatt, international secretary-treasurer, and Edward N. Sylva, chairman of who worked at the packing house I quit because I couldn’t stand Jack W. Hall, regional director, will discuss present negotiations and the Territorial school board. Be­ at 136 Enterprise Ave., that the the way we were treated. No other related subjects. ■ cause as presiding officer at the job was ‘‘temporary” and that wonder they don’t want union. hearing on the suspension of two there was: no point in joining a Now I* know why,” he said Thus far the sugar companies have rejected a union demand for teachers he violated practically union. a 10 cents per hour increase for workers on all plantations except every principle of justice and civil "One day he called everyone of . Lihue Sugar Co. where , a 16% cents increase is being asked—and rights. Oahu Sugar Co. where a 14% cents increase is being asked. No our crew and he said, ‘Me, I The Smart | ■crease is being asked of the1 four "distressed" plantations which h Ingram M. Stainback, Governor don’t like union. Union repre- a different wage reopening date. of the Territory of Hawaii. Be­ preme legislative body of our gov­ BUSINESSMEN J The sugar industry has argued that it cannot stan.d a wage cause he has contributed toward ernment at ’ Washington. depriving the citizens of Hawaii crease at the present time because of the fall-in the price of sug These are only a few, Riley, of $ and the rise in the costs of production. It has also said that t of .self-government under the sta­ Advertise tus of Statehood. Because he has the fellow travelers in Hawaii who fall in the cost of living does not warrant an Increase at this tin are giving the handful of working On the other hand, the union in countering, said the price done this with lack of dignity con­ in sistent with his high office and Communists here consolation and Hawaiian sugar is not determined by the price of raw sugar as assistance. These are a few of the woted on the New. York exchange, as claimed by the companies, and absence of chivalry as a man. Be­ The RECORD cause he has dishonored his posi­ fellow travelers who are contribut­ that the fall in the cost of living has been negligible and still above tion by placing the loyal Ameri­ ing to what Communist conscrip­ The Most Talked About the figure which prevailed at the time the last increase in wage was- tion there may be amongst us. can people of the Territory which Honolulu Weekly granted in 1947. he heads in a false light before These, Riley, are the true enemies Following adoption of the new American coal miners—killed or their brother citizens on thei United of democracy. And lo, of these, your name leads all the rest. i rent law, Housing Expeditdr Tighe injured—during. 1948, totaled 55,- States Mainland and in the su- 115. -Recently, 425,000 American Woods said ceilings would be lifted miners stopped work for two weeks from about 148,000 rental units to protest the appointment of in 27 states. James E. Boyd, as-director of the TRY OUR James J. Inouye ' Bureau of Mines: While Boyd held this office unofficially, the SPECIALTIES PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT. 55,115 casualties had taken place. TOWARD EQUAL RIGHTS VARIOUS PASTRIES Announces the removal of his office TOPEKA. Kans (FPl Gov. Hogs were raised on a commer­ Monday, April 25, 1949 Frank Carlson has signed a bill cial basis on 490 farms in the Ter­ creating a Committee Against Dis­ ritory in 1948, according to ”1948 from Room 207, Watumull Building crimination which was set up by ■ Statistics of Diversified Agricul­ Dee Lite Baker X a House resolution to study and re­ ture in Hawaii,” Issued by the ' to port discrimination because of University of Hawaii agricultural Mokauca & Eluwene extension service. Oahu had 273 ROOM 10, KAPIOLANI BUILDING race, creed, color, religion or na­ PHONE 844245 tional origin. hog farms, Hawaii 83, Maui 65, 1010 Alakea St. (above Grossman Moody) Ph. 59935 Kauai 67 and Molokai and Lanai 22. ' ’’ THE HONOLULU RECORD Koji Ariyoshi . . . 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Published every Thursday by By W. K. BASSETT HONOLULU RECORD PUBLISHING CO., LTD. Here’s-MyEist of 811 Sheridan Street, Honolulu Fellow Travelers In Hawaii Dear Riley: Phone 96445 That little editorial in the Star-Bulletin Wednesday morning was a damned good one. If SUBSCRIPTION RATES: I were writing it and using the same quotes you did I would have made it a bit stronger in its I year (Oahu) _____... $5.00 final summing up. But you did a good job, never- 1 year (Other Islands) ______$6.00 theless^^ s —Inoludes Airmailing— ^-'"‘You say that what we need to fight Com- 1 year (Mainland) ...... !______... $5.09 A munism with is education about Communism. YThat’s going to be a hot ball for my friend, \ Edward Sylva, to handle out on the field. You say that what we need is “action against WHAT’S THE QUALIFICATION? the social injustices which embitter normally loyal Who’s qualified to investigate American­ American citizens and ' ■ ; ism? make, them easy prey” for Communist agents This question must have popped up in and, what you call, “gulli- the minds of many who sat through the ble fellow travelers.” recent hearings on bills which would create While in general I ap- prove of' your editorial, a legislative committee to probe into un- I want to do a little ar- American activities. guing on this “gullible Yes, who is qualified? Take some of our fellow travelers" I wish you would Senators, for instance. Their stock ques­ —write—aneditorialtell-— tion was: “How long have you been here?” ing just what you mean. and this query was seriously directed at by that easily-mouthed g haoles who evidently have come from the “fellow travelers." Be- —Ml Mainland in recent years. fore you write it, I want to ask you some ques- hjr BASSETT One of the Senators who asked this ques­ tions that may help you tion had been a principal in our school write it right. system for many years. We wondered As I get it, here in Hawaii, these people who whether he had ever heard of the man When Strikers Took Over Lahaina glibly toss around the words "Communists” and named Tom Paine. “Fellow Travelers,” mean people who don’t agree with them. • rqle. The master of the situa- Perhaps. no visitors to American shores (First of Two Articles) The truth, is that a Communist is a member of looked more subversive than Tom Paine, a When the sugar strikers at La.- . tion seems to be the interpreter, haina, two and a' half years ago, Kamido, who formerly had'been the Communist Party, or he is one who actually man with ugly features and burning ideas beat three supervisors who were forcibly expelled, from Lanai for believes completely in the ideals, intent, principles which he .disseminated as a pamphleteer, making trouble^ and he Is now and theory of Karl Marx. .This includes a com­ irrigating cane, the incident was plete elimination of the economic system we know j Not long after he arrived in America he the occasion of a series of hysteri­ dictating the policy. cal articlesin the-Advertiser.'What “I have been unable to see the as capitalism and, principally, it means the estab­ was stirring the minds of people in the op­ wouldn’t Ray Coll have made of compromise document and hive lishment of the dictatorship by the proletariat. pressed colonies, writing about the “rights ' the 1900 Lahaina-Olowalu strike! been told that the Japanese hold That’s a Communist and that definition makes the of man” and the necessity of fighting for the original draft and that there Communist brand so indiscriminately used in Ha­ waii quite absurd. independence from British rule. Flood of Stored-Up Hatred is no copy. “For months past the laborers .I sense that you know this perfectly well, and .' He wrote to the tired and frozen soldiers In. April, 1900, plantation labor­ ers all over the Islands were rest­ have ruled the overseers and oft­ you'would avoid this travesty, but T also have a at Valley Forge under General Washington, less. Territorial government was en drive them from the fields.” feeling that you stuck into your editorial the- that “These are the times that try men’s soon to be established and the con­ Element of Surprise'Gone words “Fellow Travelers” so ' that you; like others The Olowalu strikers came off who desire a weapon against those . who don't >. souls . . .” And the soldiers fought. tract labor system ended. Many agree with’ you, can fall back on this handyi epi­ ■ workers feared they would lose even better than their Lahaina No one argues the fact that Tom Paine their good-behavior bonus when comrades. They demanded and thet. gave inspiration for American indepen­ they! became "free” laborers. got "the discharge of all but one As I understand it, a fellow traveler is one who dence. Was Tom Paine American? At Pioneer. MUI excitement lima, a shorter work day, the pre­ does not belong to the Communist Party; does not was at an especially high pitch. viously mentioned $2.50 accumu­ openly, or even secretively,' attend Communist : MAY DAY Three mill hands had Just been lated bonus, $1,000 to cover ex­ gatherings or definitely assist in the affairs of the . crushed’under a collapsing sug­ pense while on strike and the aboli­ Communist Party; On the other hand, he does more than one way tion of the docking-system. They help the cause of the Communists by encouraging , There is of celebrat­ ar pan, and their friends laid returned to work but are doing them, defending them and generally subscribing ing .May Day. their death to. the manage­ ment’s carelessness. At th e about half as much work as for­ to their fundamental principles. , The Hawaiian Way is the Lei Day with neighboring Olowalu Plantation, merly." I consider this a good definition and, accept- ; garlands of flowers, hula dances and pa­ which the Japanese .called Oni- However, when the laborers at ing it as such, I believe that, there- an compara-. geants. ” waru (Bad Devil) Plantation, Kihei, a little farther down the tively few fellow travelers in Hawaii; prqbably labor nursed years of stored-up coast, decided to follow suit on not as many as there ' are actually working' Com­ To millions of people throughout the hatred from their cruel treat­ April 30, the element of surprise munists. But I do not believe you would accept world May Day has deeper significance. It ment under Manager August was gone and the Central Maui this deflnition of mine—you and' hundreds of is a milestone that marks the forward planters were ready for them. The Hanneberg. Kihei strikers, reported Peterson, others who like to have at hand a scathing term march of-mankind to win dignity and de­ On April 4 the Japanese labor­ "were herded into Wailuku. There, with which they may brand all who; do: not agree cency. And it is American, or more cor- ers at both places struck, the stop­ on a charge of leaving work they with them—everybody who has liberal thoughts* rectly, of American origin. page lasting until the 13th at were fined and ordered back to on the Intent* and purposes of democracy. Lahaina and the 18th at Olowalu. work and upon refusal many were You would have it this way: Sixty-three years ago our country was Dr. O. A. Peterson, inspector of employed on the roads” to work If a person believes in absolute practice of civil going through a period of unirest, with immigrants, was dispatched to out their jail sentences. . rights and is not a Communist, he is afellow travel­ growing unemployment, increasing strikes Maui to report on the strike. He reported the situation well in hand How long interpreter Kamido er. If he believes honestly and completely in no . and lockouts and great suffering that pre­ —of the 'victorious strikers and bossed Manager Ahlborn the rec­ discrimination against others because of race, an- . vailed because of a cyclical recession that especially of a certain Kamido. ords do not show. cestry or'the color of their skin,, and he is not a followed the crisis of 1873. Laborers! Win Demands Cdhimunist,. he is a fellow traveler. If he believes1 At Lahaiija,\ wrote Dr. Peterson, (Next week: “Harsh Treatment it is contrary to the democratic principles of our Workers labored from sunrise 'to sunset, ‘.‘the strikers for 10 days- contin­ and Pig-Sty Quarters at Olowalu government as set forth in our Constitution and 10, 14 and even 16 hours a day. - Plantation”). Bill of Rights that big business concerns should ued to meet, to parade the town not combine to destroy small businesses and free On May First of the year 1886, in vast under Japanese\flags, to drill, and enterflHSBjW£‘he is not a- Communist, he is a fellow numbers of industrial centers, workers even, unhindered by anyone, de­ MONOPOLY ON molished the house and property traveler. struck for the eight-hour day. The strike of a store clerk who would not give KAUAI TOO If he believes that under the intent and pur­ movement was most widespread in Chica­ them credit. The town was ter­ “Hawaii’s New Monopoly—Comic poses, of a democracy the strength of . money should go, where it resulted in a blood bath when rorized by their threats and pres­ Books" (RECORD, April 14) writ­ not dictate and determine •the social condition and ence. Not a warrant was sworn ten by Edward Rohrbough has general welfare of those who have a scarcity of it. police attacked striking workers at the Mc­ if he is not a Communist, he is a fellow traveler. Cormick Reaper Works. During the ensu­ out or any move made to restrain rung the bell oh Kauai also, ac­ them. cording, to Tony Kunimura who If he believes that the opportunities for owning: ing battle, seven policemen and four work­ “Finally Manager Ahlborn as­ visited Honolulu during the week­ land and improving it should not be so pre­ ers died, and four labor leaders—innocent sented to their demands and end. dominantly limited to the few and denied the of the crime—were railroaded to the gal­ agreed to discharge the lima, time, "There is no magazine stand in many, if he is not a Communist, he is a‘fellow lows. keeper, doctor and interpreter, to Koloa because the Hawaiian Mag­ traveler. . pay $500 to the consul for the rela­ azine Distributors of Honolulu gave. These characteristics, ideas, theories and prin­ Several years later, when trade union tives of each of the victims of the Yamada Store a bad time,” Mr. ciples of a man are considered to be an assistance representatives from various countries met accident, to allow a 9-hour day Kunimura said. to the spreading of Communism throughout the in Paris, May First was chosen as the day and to pay 10 cents per hour for The largest magazine distributor United States. Therefore, the man who possesses themes a fellow, traveler furthering the interests of .mass demonstration -'for an eight-hour .extra work, to pay the accumulated in the Territory, with almost no " $2.50 bonus immediately and to competition after it bought out the of Communism. , daiy. employ the interpreter they wished, Pacific News, the Hawaiian kept Now it is my contention that you’ve got the Since that time May First has become an paying hirii $37.50 per month and sending various unpopular titles wrong man; that the man who believes these annual labor holiday. the laborers paying $37:50 per which Yamada Store did not order. things is not furthering the spread of Commu­ month. The Interpreter himself, In other parts of Kauai, Mr. nism; he is not helping it; he is not giving it Today, the demands of the workers are says that Capt. Ahlborn gave him Kunimura said, magazine stands consolation. He will, to the contrary, if his ideas, not for an eight-hour day, but for jobs and $800 for persuading the men to go are (also loaded, with unpopular theories and principles are successful and con­ security, for peace and against war. The to work. So the strike ended for' titlesXand some proprietors have summated, actually cut Communism in America struggle for a better America, for a better; the time. informed him that the' feature off at the ground. ; “The men are doing as little story-in the RECORD hit the nail But there are in the United States, and par- world, goes on. ’ work as possible and practically on the head. < (more on page 7)