1 ’ -ipp/r- Fiddling At City Hall It’s been a good many hundred years since ' Now it has been disclosed that the board of It would seem the city is in a bad position the Emperor Nero fiddled while Rome burned, supervisors and the C7C department of build­ legally if persons in the upper stories of any of but today we have an excellent example of ings both have a share in the responsibility for these buildings should suffer loss of life, or modern political fiddling at City Hall. It’s only property. sheer luck some serious burning hasn’t occurred the variances allowed. The board has even admitted that the variances it granted were il­ But far more important than the legal aspect hi Honolulu. of this situation is the human aspect. No one As a result of exposures by a salesman of legal,' since there was no provision in the new building code for variances. who has seen the terrible photographs of big fire hose, the city has discovered that at least fires on the Mainland, with charred corpses laid 14 structures built in recent years do not have The building department’s present head, out in rows like the carcasses of pigs will fail the protection from fire that the building code Ralph Inouye, excused the approval given by to realize the seriousness of any omission relat­ requires. The list includes publicized structures the department on the ground that they .didn’t ing to firefighting or fire prevention.. like the Finance Factors building and a 14 story get the published code until after it went into hotel in the Hawaiian Village. There are other effect • and that .it took considerable study to That such variances should have been allow- hotel-apartment buildings on the list. comprehend it. (from page 1)

L9-K-9 H npi[OTOH V (K) TI®S 5strep ssfjx -^y y Arejqn jo '.qua READ: OPEN FIELD The Newspaper Hawaii Needs FOR NISEI PAGE 8 VOL. 10, NO. 43 PRICE 10 CENTS THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1958 LET'S SHOOT THE MOON Burns Gives ‘Refined’ Views on Elected Gov. Local Push More Prison Grad Tells Court of "Quentin Suitable Than Treatment" for Delinquent Debtors National-DeL A scar-faced graduate of San old debt unpaid By STAFF WRITER Quentin and Oahu Prison ex­ The trouble all started, Leopoldo Jack Burns' views on an elective plained to the court of Magistrate testified, over $259.50 he once paid goverpor for Hawaii have not Ernest Ing Tuesday what the Paik to make a bond and which changed since he campaigned for "Quentin ■ treatment" is. , he never got backi He had made his present office, but they have But he said he didn’t threaten several unsuccessful attempts to become "refined.” Bondsman Edmund Paik with that collect and when he heard last Hawaii’s Delegate to the U.S. treatment — he only suggested to Wednesday Paik was leaving for Congress admitted as much.in an Paik’s assistant, John C. Cluney, the Mainland, he decided to go in interview sandwiched in Monday that it might “do Paik some good.” and make another effort to get among engagements that kept Magistrate Ing was apparent- ’ his money. him on the move most of the ly not impressed with the benefi­ Paik testified on the stand that waking hours of his three-day cial possibilities of the treatment, he didn’t owe the money and that visit here last'weekend. for he fined the man, Anthony when he told Leopoldo that, the A little greyer than when he Leopoldo, $25 on a threatening ' latter threatened him. He quoted was elected, but none ■ the less charge and put him under a $100 Leopoldo as saying the following:' vigorous of speech and movement, peace bond. ‘■TH give you the Quentin treat*- Burns explained the “refinement" Leopoldo smiled affably at the mept. I’ll cut you up so your this way: sentence and turned to Paik as family won’t know you.” ' '“If and when I become con­ soon as court recessed to try to Leopoldo, an articulate man( vinced we are chasing a will o’ the get the bondsman to post the acted as his own lawyer and cross- wisp in pursuing statehood; .1 will, bond. He did not succeed. § more oh page 7 8. go after an elective governor. I I do not thjnk it is a will o’ the FORELADIES CRACK DOWN AT LIBBY (more, on page 8) Traffic Safety Comm. Bounces Staff Demo Convention Speedup Pressure Returns as Over to Felix in Surprise Meeting Canning Season Approaches • In a surprise move, the C-C was not unopposed. Small, Brief, ’ Traffic Safety Commission As the canning season ap- lady said.-that she had told the Wednesday gave away virtually its TIE ON TABLING MOTION proaches .foreladies. at Libby are foreladies not to force the workers. staff to the custody of Traffic En­ Commissioners Joe Nobriga and Businesslike going back to the same speed up Another complaint of the work- > gineer ' Lawrence Felix because Harry Lyum asked why a special It was one year when the Demo­ and pressure .tactics that led to ers is that when the fruit gets Chairman Herbert Moniz said meeting should be called and why cratic . convention finished on a Walk out of the preparation de­ stuck as it comes out of the glna- neither he nor the commission is the change should be made, and schedule. partment there in February,' the ca machine the forelady tells the in a position to supervise the ac­ he moved to table the motion. There was little pomp and cir­ RECORD has been informed. first trimmer to clear the jam. ■ tivities. The vote on his tabling motion cumstance, no Hawaiian music This is work that was formerly was 8-8 with Felix abstaining. and there were very few delegates They are telling workers hot to done by the divider woman, whose Undecided was the fate of the Chairman Moniz then killed the at the-30th Democratic Territorial talk? “Don’t turn around. Don't job was eliiriin'ated o'ver union fleet safety contest which includes tabling motion by his own vote convention — fewer than at any shake your body, Hold your knife protest a year and a half ago. At 52 fleets of vehicles on Oahu and which broke the tie. Democratic convention in the past just at this angle.” that time the union accused .man­ which Closes for the present year The motion to shift the five decade/No more than 250 dele­ Women complain that ■ their' agement of trying to speed up the on June 30. This contest is spon­ employes Into Felix's division gates were counted at the con-: hands tire from the new position." women by eliminating one job sored by the commission, through passed with some votes to spare. vention at any one time, and most Foreladies also te.ll them that and requiring the remaining work­ its staff, and trophies are awarded The move affects positions of . of the time there were consider­ they must pick up the pine from ers to perform the same amount for the best safety records at a director of traffic safety educa­ ably fewer than that. the conveyor by sticking their of work. . dinner originally scheduled early tion, an artist, a statistician, and It was a businesslike convention thumb in. the hole, not using the Plant Manager Carl Struve, at in August. two girls who do stenographic and an economical one. Speakers rest of the hand. If they don’t do that, time told the women that The move came -at a special work. At present the top position, were- brief and Chairman Daniel , as they are told they will be dis­ they were not expected to do the meeting of the commission called that of director of traffic safety Inouye kept things moving. Dele­ ciplined, the foreladies haVe threat­ divider’s work. In case of jams, for Wednesday morning by Moniz education, is held by James A. W. gate Jack Burns timed his keynote ened. they should not touch the fruit, who proposed the shift of five em­ Duncan whose resignation goes contribution carefully to the 30 When ILWU leader Margaret but should call the mechanic, ployes to Felix’s command, but it 8 ipore on page 7 8 8. more on page 7 8 Damaso protested, the head fore- Struve said. — PAGE 2 HONOLULU RECORD MAY 22, 1958HISTORICAL ECHO IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII1IHM HSPA Was Anti­ INSIDE THE GOVERNMENT SERVICE

WORLD EVENTS Russian Sugar GOVERNMENT WORKERS who charter in Honolulu. The voters voted for social security are now will have a choice of approving fWWWWWWWWWWWVWWVtMWVWWWWWWWUWI Workers in 19^2 getting letters advising them that the charter drafted by the charter they may reimburse their retire­ commission; voting for 29 alter­ By SPECIAL WRITER ment system. accounts for the nates prepared by the board of “The wholesale condemnation of money taken out to cover social supervisors; and . voting against Compromise or Choos in France the Russians by the HSPA looks security. any charter. Washington is maintaining a pregnant silence on today’s crisis much like politics!” This is causing a lot of confu­ One of the 29 proposals of the This charge was made by F. L. sion. in France because the Department of State knows that as France board of supervisors covers Waldron, a member of the ter­ Maybe it’s because the form "Equal pay for equal work” for goes, so will go NATO, the strategic keystone in Europe of the U.S. ritorial board of immigration, in looks like the W-2 tax statement. all government workers. The pro­ nuclear race with the Soviet Union. 1912 when the HSPA said it was Workers are asking, “Will I be posed charter gives the new city Cause of the crisis is the militarized French colonial rule of 10 “not in favor of continuing the garnisheed?”; “How come, more council the right to set the pay of present system bf assisted Rus­ taxes? I paid my taxes.”; and “Db Honolulu government workers. million AraJ?s in Algeria (four times the size of France). The Arabs, sian immigration." I have to pay this money?” Under the board’s alternative pro­ started their present struggle for independence on May 8, 1945—the day The HSPA, according to the For the benefit of, government posal, the present system of hav­ World War II ended in Europe. Since 1945, France has freed five Star-Bulletin of July 10, 1912, said workers who are getting these ing uniform classifications and of its colonies—Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Tunisia (east of Algeria), that "only . 197 out of 2,000 Rus­ notices, here are the- answers rrrto uniform pay throughout the terri­ sians (imported as sugar workers) the questions. You will not be tory would be continued. and Morocco, to the west. remained on plantations.” garnisheed. You do not have to There are one million French civilians in Algeria which buys 13 Waldron said: “We do not want pay additional taxes. You are not ☆ ☆ ☆ per cent of all French exports and provides France with 7 per cent politics mixed up with the busi­ compelled to pay any money if RECENTLY THE RECORD of her imports. 'France- is depending more on Algerian oil and thq ness of the immigration board.” you don’t want to. headlined the dispute between the use of Algeria as sites for nuclear and missile tests. Algeria is strategic “The planters did not want any The letter you got (or will be HGEA and Omaha Mutual about more Russian labor,” he said, “but getting) simply means this: to France in maintaining her colonial power. $26,000. To many HGEA members, desired all the Portuguese and Some money was taken out of the Record story was the first To hold Algeria,- France, often using made-in-USA arms, has Spanish the board could bring in­ your retirement fund to give you time they heard about the disputed slaughtered Arabs by tens of thousands since 1945. The attrition by to the territory.” back credit in the social security $26,000. torture has increased. Her 400,000 troops cost France $2 million daily. (The infinlgration of labor for system. If you want to build up The current issue of the HGEA’s the plantations was costing the your retirement fund you may put The. Algerian Arabs have federated with the Arabs of Morocco and Public Employee devotes the edi­ board $300,000 annually circa 1912.) the money in. Note that the let­ torial column to the HGEA’s posi­ Tunisia—a grand total of 24 million nationalists. At Waldron's suggestion, the ter says, "if you desire” and uses tion on the $26,000. The paper’s Two weeks ago, a French military junta seized control in Algeria board sent a circular letter to all the word “may.” It is not com­ explanation confirms the Record’s pulsory. in defiance of Paris. The French Assembly closed ranks and gave the plantation managers;- asking their story of several weeks ago. opinions of the Russian workers. However, should you put this Pflimlin cabinet emergency powers with a postwar record majority Some managers "asked for Rus­ money in? That is entirely up to vote of 461 to 114. sians with large families, the larg­ you. If you are elderly and close The present government is shaky. Within France, the government er the better because the women to retirement it might be a good "The Quiet One" has 300,000 armed men, plus 280,000 hard-bitten riot troopers. If the and children did excellent work in idea, since it would mean a higher weeding and planting. The men retirement allowance. And if you Mental Health Movie, military junta in Algeria rebels against Paris, it would be cut from among the Russians are good to have extra money that you want the financial and logistic means essential to its grip. If Paris orders work teams.” The board found to deposit where it will be safe a military showdown with the junta, the Arabs would likely turn that "most of the Russians had until you retire, you may do so. Needles Uni. Audience to President Gamal Nasser of the Egypt-Syria bloc or even to the been tradesmen and not drawn The result of putting in the money "The Quiet One,” an authorita­ from the agricultural class.” (and remember it is only if you tive movie which deals with one Soviets for material aid. In the 1912 era, according to desire to do so) would be that aspect of mental sickness, was the Star-Bull’s columns, there was upon retirement you would draw a screened free before a capacity a drive on to “Americanize” the slightly higher monthly allowance audience by the University of Ha­ World Health for Peace Territory and a drive by the — roughly about a dollar higher waii’s psychology club last Fri­ HSPA. to counterbalance its Chi­ per month. day night. Medical experts of the 88-nation World Health Organization of nese, Japanese and Filipino work­ Like a clinical study, the docu­ the United Nations will meet for their 10th annual conference in ers with immigrants from Europe. mentary movie shows how a On Aug. 31, 1912, the Star-Bull OAHU UPW MEMBERS cele­ family breakdown in the awful Minneapolis, Minn., on Monday, May 26. said that the HSPA was consider­ brated the end of their first bowl­ environment of delapidated, over­ WHO is not a supergovernment. It has no power to compel. It ing league with a banquet at Le- ing a “$2.00 to $2.50 a month Roy’s last Saturday evening. At crowded Harlem, a Negro. and has organized international cooperation for war on disease because bonus for heads of European the banquet, awards were present­ Puerto Rican section of New York the health of all peoples Is fundamental to the achievement of peace families per child between the ed to the best individual and team City, compels a neglected boy to and security. ages of two and 14 or 15 years performers in the league. resent and rebel against his im­ of age, to build and keep ■ the Refuse department bowlers, Ken mediate fate. . Of the world’s 2,700,000,000 inhabitants, two out of three persons families on plantations and save When he damages parked autos are under-nourished and hundreds of millions are stricken with Suzuki and Pablo Maniapit, carried importing labor from Europe.” away several trophies for their ' and hurls a stone through a win­ malaria, roundworm, tuberculosis, yaws, trachoma, etc. individual high scoring play as dow, the boy, a sick person medic­ Today, WHO has a budget of only $13% million — the cost of a well as for their championship ally, becomes legally a delinquent Solon Raps Careless winning teams. and is sent for rehabilitation to an SAC intercontinental bomber — and 1,000 employes. Ten years ago upstate farm school where he it was just an idea. Individual high score award Cost of Living Index; winner Alfred Richardson, repre­ responds to psychiatric supervi- senting the City and County Jail . sion. Work Clothes Soar Unit of the UPW, walked off with Dr. Linus C. Pauling, Jr., a psy­ a handsome trophy, as did Ta­ chiatrist, led an audience discus­ U.S.-Lutin American Ties Tangled Work trousers have increased sion of the movie. Diverse opin-. FDR created the “Good Neighbor" policy with Latin America tsuo Otaguro, for the Hawaii 5.7 per cent in cost since 1955; Housing entry. ions were expressed on such- ques- (20 republics;1170 million people). In 1943 Vice' President Henry Wallace rayon slacks only 1.7 per cent. Team members and . guests ■tions 1 as, are all juvenile ■ and toured the same countries as did Vice President Nixon recently. “Viva Work shirts have increased 5.7 per honored league officers, Roger adults delinquents mentally sick Wallace” throngs swamped him and, in shirt sleeves and suspenders, cent since 1955; business shirts, Kanealil, Jesse Maniapit, and Ken and what is normal? ' ■ 1.1 per cent.- A European in the ~ audience he tWd them: Suzuki for planning and carrying Work shoes have increased 12.7 out the first division-wide bowling asked, "Why the emphasis on "If great fortunes for the privileged and misery and poverty per cent; street shoes only 8.6 per league for the Oahu UPW. juvenile delinquency In America? for the people in general continue after the war, this sacrifice will cent. And overalls have gone up It’s not so in Europe.” have been in, vain.” 5.1 per cent and work gloves 3.2 ★ < ☆ ★ A Micronesian student, a na­ per cent. > tive of communal society, said Nixon represents the paternalistic Big Business era- of Elsenhower. FROM THE BIG ISLAND How the cost of these items comes word that the physical ex- that the conflicts of the U.S-. cul­ He experienced extreme hostility in Latin America where the majority commonly used by most working .amination program for ’ county ture, as he has experienced them except for the chosen few in cahoots with their U.S. counterparts, are- people has Increased more than workers is being revised. The in Hawaii^ are beyond his compre­ for clothes worn by white-collar county’s board of supervisors de­ hension. ridden with poverty and misery. AntirU.S. grudges run deep. workers was discovered by Rep. The Wall Street Journal says: “to have sent Nixon into that cided on May 7 to make changes Dr. Pauling called ‘the audience Fred Marshall-(Dem. Minn.) dur­ in the drive to have all police­ reactions “d\healthy and gratify­ •maelstrom out of ignorance is not readily, excusable.’’ It says the ing House hearings on the Federal men, firemen, and equipment ing sign.” .‘/The Quiet One” and anti-UJS. resentments can be “diminished only by altering the things cost of living index. operators take exams. similar movies are available, from The index is compiled by the Among other changes, the board the Mental Health Assn, of Hawaii that cause them.” Bureau of Labor Statistics which John Foster Dulles is scheduled to tour Latin America this summer. decided to have the civil service for screening before organization­ hasn’t been Including the cost of director consult' with the physi- . al meetings. work clothes in its estimations. clans to revise the examination Commissioner Ewan Clague of the form and have as many questions Growing Pains in Indonesia bureau admitted to Rep. Marshall: on the personal history form eli­ "The facts would seem to .in­ minated as possible. Congress Secrecy The civil war in Indonesia appears to-be nearing its end. The Chris­ dicate you are quite correct. We The board also decided that all don’t know any reason why this Statistics show that the U.3. tian Science Monitor has said, “Western observers tempted to cast a forms will be turned in directly to difference between work clothes the civil service department, in Senate closed 135 of its 490 com­ stone at the slowness of Indonesia's progress toward national maturity and dress clothes should be so order to protect the confidential mittee. meetings and the House might perhaps do well to remember the painstaking, often tragic course great.” nature of the reports. 280 of its 765 meetings in the first of their own countries' long efforts at nation-building.” Commented Rep. Marshall: three months of 1958. “This instance does serve to illus­ Joint committees of the House The 85,000,000 people of Indonesia, former subjects of Dutch im­ trate the importance’ of obtain­ JUNE 14 IS THE date for the and Senate closed 27 of 68 meet­ perialism for centuries, possess.; islands rich in strategic raw materials ing accurate statistics on what it election on the proposed new city ings to the public. (oil, rubber, tin, etc.). U. S. private interests have a $350 million stake costs the worker to live since his All told, this works out to Con­ in them purchasing power is important not • have been made by the index) gress closing one in every three „ . _ , , , ... , • , , only to retail business but to agri­ make it difficult to know just of its committee meetings. This President Sukarno -has charged that “a few of our people who culture what funds should be made avail­ 33-per-cent secrecy ratio is down want wealth and power” caused the revolt. “Inaccurate estimates (such as able for various programs.” from scores in previous years. THEY HAD NO UNION IN 1909 "Summit" Talks MAY 22, 1958 HONOLULU RECORD PAGE 3 In Sugar Begin "Woody," Waikiki Development Co. Japanese Workers At Palace Today Slapped by, Liquor Commission A “summit meeting” to make an The Waikiki Development Co. Huffman, that there would be effort to negotiate a settlement in came in for a blast at Monday’s table service of liquor, Kronick the sugar strike was called by meeting of the liquor commission snorted, “Table service! I don’t Struck For Equal Gov. William Quinn as the when Dwight B. Woodworth, pro­ see anything unique about that.” RECORD went to press, and presi­ prietor of the Woody’s restuarants, Woodworth was inclined to dent Harry Bridges of the ILWU told commissioners he had.' leased i bandy words with the commis­ was flying back to participate. a site and set up a restaurant at sioners, and he told them he’d Regional Director Jack Hall was the International Village with the built two of the finest restaurants Pay For Equal Work scheduled to represent the union tacit understanding he’d be able in town. along with Bridges, while industry to sell liquor. ’ < r “I haven’t seen any better and “Do you think you get a liquor you won’t either,” he told . com­ The following is a continua­ Oahu Sugar Co., which "dropped was to be represented’ by Boyd McNaughton, HSPA ■ head, and license the same way you get ’ missioners. tion of the RECORD’S chrono­ like a 'bomb in the camp of the gross income license?’’ asked,Com- ' logical report published last Agitator’s,” the Bulletin said. It Walter Cameron, second »vice president. Federal- ..Mediators missioner Harry. Kronick.incredul-.. .AREA SATURATED week on the 1909 sugar strike ordered Makino and 32 of his as­ ously. ., * sociates to stop picketing the plan­ Arthur Viat, George Hillenbrand which involved some 1,000 Ja­ and EarF Ruddy, who have been “Woody” made ’no' intelliglfc^ liut Chairman Carson explained panese on Oahu who struck for tations and that the Nippu Jiji reply. '’’ ' ■ n-: ■ -oc.!- 'that the commission feels the area pay and conditions equal ttf °*must' ‘fromyfthis date cease the interviewing both sides this week, were also, to be present. Kronick. and"' other- commission.*: " •is - already saturated and that at those given to Portuguese, Puerto publication of all inflammatory ers had such sharp words for the least one applicant for a license Rican and other sugar workers. strike articles.” Delegate Jack Burns, who offer­ development^ cqmpaqy that An- in the \village has been turned The strike ran from May 9 to ed his services to Gov. ■ Qtiinn HSPA “STUBBORN” -thony Hifakami, 'vifee-president of down because "bfierfe are already Aug. 4, 1909. ' Monday, said in Washington the new Woody’s restuarant, felt two there. -’-H (io i On July 12, the Bulletin asked, Quinn had neither - accepted, nor he had to defend. - Woodworth itbem asked a ques­ “Is Hawaii Ruled by Americans or rejected the offer. tion that stumped- the commis­ Japanese?” and “Is American law USING COMMISSION? to prevail? . . . that’s what Hawaii sioners. On June 14, the leaders were “How can yoir tell when a satu­ “re-arrested on new warrants has to decide.” The next day, the “Are they’-'tTjdhg'^-’io use this charging them with conspiracy.” Bulletin said, “If they keep it up Maui Libby Manager ration point hJrbatehed?” he asked. commission td- sell? real estate?”- No one even answered that- one Prosecuting witnesses Were the at the present rate, the Japa­ Kronick askedi angrily; clearly. Aiea, Oahu, Ewa, Waialua and nese associations ' will be telling Bans Strike Donation “No, no,”. Hirakami replied, “I When it became apparent that Kahuku sugar companies. They the government and police autho­ don’t think they’re- trying to do said the leaders “were inciting riot rities what to do and demanding Woodworth’s application would be Box From Co. Premises that.” turned down, Kronick ' expressed - and disorder, issuing scurrilous that it be done forthwith.” ^‘'Woodworth1'explained that he' threats against the Japanese work­ On July 14, the Bulletin was When Manager Frank. Feteira surprise that' he hadn’t checked of Libby, McNeill and Libby’s Pau- ■«w.as trying.,.to set up a “unique” with the commission’s staff about ing on the plantations,” etc. given the translation of passes is­ , plp-fje (/'Waikiki can be proud of,” On June 15, authorities pos­ sued by the strike committee to wela cannery, Maui,. refused to the likelihood of gettlpg a license allow on company property a col­ ‘arid said he had spent a lot of before spending a lot of money. sessed a copy of the Higher Wage those who wanted to cross picket money doing it. Assn.’s plan for the strike strate­ lines. The paper called it a "Bold lection box for donations of can­ But there seems little the ned goods an^ other food from When it was developed by restaurateur can?'do about it at gy. The Bulletin headlined its re­ Scheme to Control All Japanese,” Woodworth’s manager, David port, “Criminal Plans -Exposed in and said “the purpose of the Ja­ pine workers to the sugar ‘strike, present. c -r;:’. ■ Agitator Documents,” and called­ panese is to ignore, defy the laws cannery workers went across the street with their box. ' The manager’s action aroused BEYOND MANAGER TESTER’S HOUSE . . > , greater interest among pine work­ The 13,800 sugar workers now in their 104th ers in the voluntary contribution. Attention of non-cannery peo­ Strikers Tend Vegetable Garclen; day of the current strike have their roots in the ple was drawn to the collection struggles of the past. The strike front *is solid. tor sugar strikers since the box This is the second part of a two-part series on the was taken to the Kawaharada Watercress Gang Wade Up to Hips 1909 strike written from information taken out restaurant, a public gathering By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCEfor terracing, ^’iier' husband place. u of the Evening-Bulletin’s 1909 .issues. The facts "Blacky,” an expert bulldozer Pine workers called ' Manager Turn left as you approach the show clearly that in 1909 the sugar workers did Feteira’s action "just chicken.” operator, is aw^y. on . Oahu work­ big white house of Lihue Plan­ ing for. a contraqtdr. not have a union, that they were divided and not Support from pine workers to tation manager Keith Tester, with welded together into a multi-racial union like the the sugar strikers takes the form its-broad lawn and stately facade. The. lands all around are claim­ of cash and food donations. Pine ed by Lihue ; Plantation. People ILWU; and they lacked the present-day experi­ workers say that they realize a Two winding' red dirt wheel on Kauai say'that they were ac­ ence. Today’s sugar workers have benefited from victory lor the sugar workers will tracks curve ■between jungle hills tually taken .away from original (he experiences of the past. make it easier for them to w(n a to a little clearing where sugar Hawaiian owners, that they were belter deal when the pineapple strikers tend their garden. Among originally kulqana .lands. agreement re-opens this fall ror young banana trees, heat rows Of negotiation. beans, cabbage, radish; are being ■ worked by Benny Tabura and his it “the greatest scheme of criminal of the Territory, by violence if crew of garden duty pickets. . Mainland Business organization to hold, up an indus­ necessary.” try that has ever ’been brought On July 21, the Bulletin report­ in Makino’s store.” The Bulletin A jeep pulls ,up,, Union, time­ Failures Saar as to light in these islands . . .” ed that “K. Kiyose, a visiting Ja­ said Makino sh?d tears. It ran an keepers Motomu “Hattie” Onishi, The same day, Soga and his panese journalist,” who had been editorial headed,- ■’'‘Fanatic or Ignacio Mercado, and Jose Istacio Recession Deepens friends cabled Baron Kogoro Ta­ studying the strike, charged the Agent?” in - ‘ visit groups like this daily and kahira, Japanese ■ ambassador in HSPA with "unmanly” treatment On Aug. 5, i the- Bulletin an­ keep a record of the picket duty Washington, and complained about of Japanese workers and that the nounced, . “Strike En^eg. by being served by each member. “On- an average day in this re­ how the police had entered Ma­ HSPA. was mistaken in riot re­ Resolution Passed” by the. Higher Where a picket fails to turn out, cession period,’ 45 to 50 U.S, firms’ kino’s and others’ rooms ^-J&pd . ceiving strike delegations and in. Wage Assn, which had been, in union police visit him' to find out' clqse their doorS -ahd go * out of tak^i away, certain things.” not paying Japanese the same as conference from July 31. to- Aug. why. 1 J- ' ■ ; "• business,” sapst-l'the-J’H^n- News other workers. He called the 4. The conference resolved to in­ 1*116 road curves down to a flood­ and. World R$posh „> - STRIKER MARCH HSPA “stubborn.” duce “the strikers to return to ed, watery bottom "Where Masami "If '.tire pFgscmte rate- continues co OhiaJune- 16, the Bulletin said On July 27, the HSPA announc­ work,” to promote a. “big labor as­ Mukai, Lihue section garden chair­ through the year.” the magazine ' Agitators were to do in ed that 700 Filipinos were on the sociation, including all workmen, man and ,his..."Jyiajtercress gang”— Says, "more than 14,000 businesses Japan what they have; done here, way to Hawaii and that "the im­ on every island,” • and- that the wading up’ tb :,£lieir hips — are Will go to the’ wall — the highest they and' their literature would migration is well established,” witlv “head office of these associations clearing Away dense, shoulder- annual- total im B0 years. have been suppressed long ago.” "regular shipments” to come by shall be In Honolulu with- branch high panlcum ’ grass to enlarge “So far in 1018/ the failures 'are On June 17, 14 more “strike every steamer. offices on all islands and planta­ their -planting;; With. Jaim, wearing running 12 per^genL, higher than agitators” (all Japanese) • were tions.” shorts, ar.e,-I^prbiPur-utarl^ ta 1957 and . ^7, per, cent, higher charged with riot, and the grand STRIKE ENDED Suenaga, Htmu'iwamQtoand Ryo- than in 1956.' ”' , jury indicted Makino, Tasaka, Ka­ Meanwhile, the trials of the POUNDS “ALIEN” LINE jl HirokaWa. ’.... ’ .. ““In addition t„o t_h__e ’b_u_s_i_n_e_ss_e_s wamura, Negoro, Soga and Ya-' strike leaders were proceeding in In an editorial, the Bulletin said The watercress patfch was givdfi' going broke, others Tin- growing • mashiro "on the charge of con­ the courts. The juries- were •‘one thing in particular should over to the-uiiiion -by Vicente‘Lis -nmnbers sire closing down volun- spiracy to murder, and a second cautioned by the judges about not be forgotten: the past three sada, ,gn indigent welfare recipient"„ tarily, getting ..out while they are indictment for assault and bat­ being influenced by press reports. month's have been marked by the who used: to-earn a little from jt, still solvent. Many others, hard tery.” z i Defense lawyers successfully chal­ most flagrant violations of out­ but who his become' too' asthmatic pressed, at re .mer’ gi’ ng with com- ‘ Strikers from- • all plantations lenged and caused jurors to step laws .and by hideous schemes ''•to to keep it up properly. He donated petitors, hoping to make a go of "marched to town and cheered down when they admitted reading destroy not only independence of • seeds-too: r ■ . • ,u;,i -m-v ■ >- ’ -it. the jailed Agitators.” Big Island the Evening Bulletin. personal thought and- action, but The land belongs to Mrs: Louise “The increase in failures, in workers organized the Hawaiian the lives of. those'asserting such Holi, a benign, white-haired, Ha­ general, is- greatest among retail-? On July 31, 145 Filipino im­ ers.” Japanese Labor Union of 4,390 migrants, including 14 women and independence . . ." waiian woman who watfehns’ -the - - members. two children, arrived and went to, On Aug. 10, in an aftermath work from the lanal of her “11‘tile On June 21, the Bulletin carried Kahuku. The Bulletin described editorial on the strike, the Bulle­ house on a hill. A calap^h-qousln,, a headline, "Strike Leaders Pillage them as "good looking people who tin saW if as “the concerted action Pefer. Contrades, ^.plantation System,” and claimed "Japanese make a very good impression.” of 70,000 aliens in our midst, and workei*, also grows' ’taro there. 1 HONOLULU RECORD servants are forced to contribute On Aug. 2, the Bulletin said when those 70,000 aliens are Asia­ The Holls have owned -this land ‘ Published Every Thursday rice.” The paper said some 1,200 secret fneetings of strike delegates tics steeped in cunning, self-con­ for- over 100 years;: It, Is a ; royal by * servants aye employed in private from all Islands had been under tained, and with aii organization grant. They have put thpiy-sweat, Honolulu Record Publishing homes, and they swipe rice and way for three days without re­ at their command equal to that of into it to make it yield., Mr^.. Holi's _C_o_m,p_a_ny„. ._L_td_. “turn it over to the commissary leasing any statement. an army in action . . .” daughter, Mrs. Nishihata,1 works 811 Sheridan St., Honolulu 14, TJL dept, of the strike headquarters.” On Aug. 3 Editor Sheba of,the The striker's drifted back to a big Vegetable"garden behihd the -Entered as second-class matter On July 7, Judge ,W. J. Robin­ Hawaii Shinpo was stabbed by work. The Aala Park soup kitchen house where a broad area of level May 10, 1949, at. the Post Office son in circuit court issued an in­ Mori, a High Wage delegate from was closed. The trials of the strike land and surrounding hillside has at Honolulu, Hawaii, undej the junction, at the request of the Maui, who formerly was "a clerk leaders continued. been freshly cleared of hau bush Act rf March 3 18^3 PAGE 4 HONOLULU RECORD MAY 22, 1958 A Little Brains Goes a Long Way Sport Shorts By SKINNY ■•When I started in baseball, I had a million dollar arm and a ten cent head. Now I have a million dollar head and a ten cent arm/’ That thought, uttered years ago by a major league pitcher in the twilight of his career expresses the tragedy of many an athlete in many MAUI BRIEFS . . . Baldwin High won the Maui Interscholastic a different sport. Down through the years, the coaches and athletic Baseball League title for the second straight year. They went through directors of educational institutions have emphasized that minds are the season with a 11-1 slate. being developed by competitive sports as well as bodies. It’s true, of West Maui Community Assn. (Lahaina) won the CYO Open Bas­ course, but there are times when it seems the minds develop a lot more ketball League crown by handing Joe’s U-Drive a 57-53 setback in a slowly than the bodies. In sports, a little bit of brains goes a long, long special playoff game played May 14. way. As the aforementioned big leaguer noted, it sometimes seems as The Puunene Cubs, powered by three homers, walloped the. defend­ though. the body is worn out by the time the mind has comprehended ing champion Wailuku Cardinals 8-2 in the feature game as the 1958 the finer points of the sport. season of the Maui Senior Baseball League got underway at the Ka­ hului Fairgrounds on May llj The Puerto Ricans trounced their arch Consider, for instance, the on-side kick in football. Every line rivals, the Portuguese Phillies, by a 15-8 margin in the day’s other coach worth his salt warns every one of his charges to be alert on the encounter. kickoff that the enemy doesn't try the on-side kick and send the ball Ronald Nipp was adjudged the most oustanding performer in- the squirming and twisting in front of him, closely .followed by an eager Maui Open Weightlifting Meet held May 10 at - Wailuku. He defended ball hawk. Yet every season you’ll see that play executed successfully his light-heavyweight title by setting four new records in the 181-pound a time or-two, right under the noses of large stupid-looking linemen class. Allan Shimokawa, a Baldwin High senior, won the outstanding who act as though' they are the victims of some strange new type of teen-age lifter honors. larceny. The Statue of Liberty play was old back when James Thurber wrote ☆ ☆ ’ ☆ “The Male Animal,” and for years before. Yet you’ll see the thing run off next year a time or two, probably for substantial yardage. . PASTOR BARRO poses with his GARDEN ISLAND TIDBITS . . . The Crossroads team won the Ka­ 200-pound marlin caught for Unit paa Central Bowling League' championship. The team was honored at You’ll read how major leaguers have developed baseball into a 1, Naalehu, soup kitchen. a party held recently. Members of the team are: Henry Ichioka, Seiji science — how catcher’s signals are given and stolen — how managers Yamashiro, Seiji Ouye, Richard Apana, Sue Nakamasu, James Tom move outfielders three feet this way and that, depending on-the and Shizue Fujiwara. . 3 hitter — how every swing of every batter is controlled from the bench. The annual Jaycee 4-Ball Golf Tournament, sponsored by the Kauai Yet thinlr how effective such a simple move as the "Williams shift” New "Third Man" Junior Chamber of Commerce, will be held at the,Wailua course on was against Ted the first year or two it was tried. And remember what June 8. Shizuo Higashiyama is chairman of the fund-raising tourna­ a quandry the sport was thrown into when a major league team actually ment. Proceeds from the matches will be used to send Kauai’s Jaycee * put a midget in the game as a hitter and pitcher-hazard, following a Screens White titlist to the Honolulu Territorial tournament in the summer... suggestion written years before by James Thurber in his short story, The West Kauai Midget League opened its ’58 season last Satur­ “You Could Look It Up.” House Visitors day with doubleheaders at the Hanapepe and Waimea parks. Jimmy Okada is league president. Yes, a little brains goes a long way in nearly any sport. “So rapidly and unobtrusively Teams entered in the league are: Eleele Cubs, Wahiawa Red Sox, that few outside Washington have Take boxing and consider the case of our own Stan Harrington Kalaheo Cardinals, Hanapepe White Sox, Kekaha Indians, Kaumakani grown aware of it,” says the Reds, Kekaha Dodgers, and Waimea Senators. fighting Ramon Fuentes,, the Gravedigger and old trouper. Fuentes had Washington Post, “a 36-year-old some trouble making the weight, around 147. He had to go into the The Yankees are leading the Kawaihau Community Little League college professor lAs become the with a 9-1 mark. They defeated the Giants by a 6-5 count as the sec­ steam bath to do it and he felt a little weak. So he fought that night ‘Third Man’ in the White House. in spurts, varying an attack with periods of sitting back on the second ond round opened at the Kapaa Park. Other teams in the order of their "Robert Keith Gray has been standing are: Phillies, Athletics, Dodgers, Indians, and Giants. rope and taking a rest-. And as he told acquaintances afterward, Har­ elevated to a double role never Lihue Cafe won the Lihue 870 Bowling League pennant. The league . rington was befuddled enough by these tactics to go into long clinches entrusted to one man before. He celebrated its season’s conclusion with a chop sui dinner at the Lihue arid lean on the ropes along with him. not only screens all the White Cafe. League games were played at the Bay Bowl. Officers of the league House patronage, but all of Pres­ In the fight game, a thinking fighter like Archie Moore or Ray are: Spud Olivas, president; Bobby Tokunaga, vice-president and Ralph ident Eisenhower’s appointments.” Urabe, secretary-treasurer. Robinson is a genius. The Post says that Gray “has So, coming to another sport, one deals with the strange situation six secretaries working for him. ☆ ☆ ☆ in which men from several different countries, England, Australia, In an average 10-hour day, 6-day Czechoslovakia, Ireland, all ran the four minute .mile before an Amer­ week, they weed out as many as BIG ISLAND NOTES . . . Honokaa High lead the North Division ican, Don Bowden, made it. Why? It’s not necessarily because they had 600 seekers after presidential and Hilo High the South Division as teams in the Big Island Inter­ more brains. It certainly is, in most cases, because they had longer favors, and more than 300 appli­ scholastic Federation Baseball League opened their fourth week of play periods to compete. American track stars usually quit competition after cants for audiences with the pres­ on May 13. Both Honokaa and Hilo were unbeaten in three games. they’re through college. Thore’s no money to be made, in track, and ident. The Territorial Junior Golf Tournamqnt will be played in Hilo in they feel forced to get out and start to work making their pile. "Only D. W. Eisenhower and July. The champion will be sent to the Tucson, Arizona, National Cham­ Sherman Adams wield more power. pionships. Hilo hosted the 1955 tournament. ' Tn other countries, track men continue on with their sport for the Unless Ike or ‘Sherm the Firm’ The Pirates and Asahis are the undefeated teams in the Hilo Senior fun of it. The distance men of other countries are generally more intervene, which is not often, no Baseball League, in games played May 11, the Pirates defeated Puna mature and, have developed a much higher degree of mental discipline one gets to see either a job or Braves 4-1 and the A’s trounced the Hawaiis 3-1. In the other game of than is possible for lads in their early 20’s. But this sport brings to the president without the bless­ the tripleheader the Wanderers blanked the Crescents 8-0. its competitors more than most, the need for mental discipline — the ing of Mr. Gray.” realization that the mind is all-important in such competition. ■ Don Bowden, for instance, is quoted last week as saying, “It's a prob­ lem of prorating yourself over a distance. When you’re running all out STRIKERS' HARVEST FROM THE OCEAN — say a 1:50 half or a 3:58 mile — yourbody mechanism tells you you’re tired just when you have to run fastest. That’s when your psy­ chological preparation takes over.” Or as Alex Henderson, another American distance runner, puts it, “It’s a case of mind over body. My body is capable of a world record in the two-mile. I hope my mind is.” It may well be that college competition is not conducive to the same kind of mental development that’s possible in some sports where the competition is mainly non-collegiate. Consider weight-llfing. Only ■ recently have colleges accepted it as a legitimate part of physical train­ ing. The men who carried on the sport in this country were not con­ nected with 'educational institutions. They worked out privately and at YMCA’s, and they did so after hours from full time jobs. Yet any weight lifter of competitive experience will tell you the confidence and determination of a lifter are tremendously important to his .success. Like every other sport, there’s more to the iron- game than muscles. , But as we noted above, a little brains go a long, long way because there - are so marry athletes who haven’t been able to develop them.

WHO Experts Eyeing New Medical Hazards . The World Health Organization, Service. He said: which was . founded as an agency "Thousands of industrial plants of the United Nations in 1958, discharge chemical wastes into the now has 88 member nations, as rivers and streams that provide compared with 82 for the UN it­ our drinking water. Hundreds of self. It is regarded as the most chemicals that have not been successful of UN groups. adequately tested for. their effect With a $13.5 million budget and on man are added to foods to pre­ OFF THE SOUTHERNMOST tip of the Hawaiian and make these hardy fishermen glance nervous- 1,000 medical experts, it is work­ serve, color and flavor them. ing on«a multitude of projects in "Each year we are swallowing chain, seasoned fishermen of Unit 2, Pahala, ply iy toward the shore—three to six miles away. The 180 countries. 14 million pounds of aspirins. Peo­ their skills and reap rich harvest from the sea. union fishermen who brought in 540 pounds of It has started work on “some ple who do -not appear to be happy From prancing home-made outrigger Canoes, bait­ the above marlin, kahalas, ahis and ^luas are brand-new medical hazards our either asleep or awake are taking ed hooks from 200 or more fathoms of nylon lines (1. to r.j Teichi Yanagawa, M.- Teramoto, H. Ito great-grandfathers never faced,” tranquilizing drugs to keep them according to Dr. Henry van Zile in between. How dangerous is this probe the murky depths. Huge sharks, almost equal ■ and W. Sasaki, —Photo by Buck Nishiguchi Hyde of the U.S. Public Health chemical miasma?” in length to the tiny crafts, sometimes linger about Through A Woman's Eyes | (jadaboiit | Echoes Of Hitler By Amy Clarke fessional men sounding off about women’s duty EDWARD HITCHCOCK, former Mainland horse races, but the to stay at home and give their Children a clear police captain and once in that chances are they’ll never find out. Should a family have a boss—and should it be “mother image.” capacity a member of the C-C Even if they did, it would be in a the father? Has the American man become merely Traffic-Safety Commission, is said rather higher social strata than “mother’s little helper?” Does a man really have to be “boss” to be a to be one of the possibilities to re­ they’re used to making pinches — good father? place James Duncan who recently a little like raiding the Commer­ Are broken homes and juvenile delinquency the gave notice of resignation from cial Club or the Pacific Club on results of our confusion over the roles of man Next door to me. lives a young Japanese couple. the job of director of traffic safe­ suspicion of gambling. anti woman? They have four children, all under eleven. The ty education. Hitchcock has been mother does not go out to work. She is busy about You can always find someone to answer “yes” the house and yard all day, cheerful and pleasant­ selling insurance since he left the ☆ ☆ ☆ to these questions. The latest is Dr. Bruno Bettel- police department. .Duncan has voiced with the children. I have never heard her heim, Professor of Educational Psychology at the scream at them. They are well-behaved, happy had several jobs offered him since WILD RUMORS about the ap­ University of Chicago. the news of his resignation be­ pointments of judges to both Fed­ youngsters. eral and circuit courts keep some— came public, but he’s going to In -a recent featured article in “This Week” The father comes home from work in the after­ work for Prudential—selling in­ attorneys continually steamed up -Magazine, Dr. Bettelheim called for a return to noon and works in the yard or on his car. The surance. these days: The latest wild one the old-fashioned concept that Father must be children obviously respect him. Yet he doesn’t was that Judge Albert Felix had_ the Boss.. ☆ ☆ ☆ got a call and taken off for Wash­ think it beneath his, manhood to ^ive his wife a ington over the weekend. But Children, he says, become confused when they hand if she has had a' hard day. Many times I have THE FLEECING CHARGE we see Daddy tying on an apron and washing dishes, seen him running the washing machine or hang­ mentioned last week didn’t get Judge Felix was in court doing business as usual on Monday. His or giving the baby a bottle. ing clothes for her. made, but the story isn’t finished. term is up in August and there The two local showgirls who were It’s even worse, he says, when Mommy takes a I think it is precisely this cooperative relation­ supposed to strip for a “stag” was speculation as to whether he’d job and becomes a breadwinner, too. The poor ship that makes both parents and children happy. show for $200 twice stood up the be more interested in saving his own job, via reappointment, or child won’t have a clear mother or father image Women today are not the subservient creatures guys who put up the money. They if both parents carry on the same functions. of yesterday. But we have not achieved full equality considered filing a charge of gross trying for one of the spots on the Federal bench. Dr. Bettelheim. spent a year in German con­ yet, either. And that is the main source of unhappi­ cheat against the pair, who said ness in the home. they "forgot” the date, but thought ☆ ☆ ☆ centration camps in 1939 before coming to the better of that. The embarrassment United States. It would appear that some of the Too many women have to work a full day in rising out of a case like that JUDGE CARRICK BUCK, in­ Nazi ideas of male superiority poisoned his think­ factory, office or store and then come home and could work both ways. But they’re cidentally, is again rumored "on ing. start in on the cooking and housekeeping chores. still burned up about being taken the way out. But Judge Buck has Listen to this: “The completion of womanhood Daddy comes home and, relaxes. His work is pau. for the two C’s, and the girls may survived many rumors of this Mama is lucky if she’s through by eleven. have a rocky road ahead. is mostly through motherhood. But a man isn’t kind before and, though a Demo­ fulfilled just by becoming a father. He needs to crat, seems to survive all the Weekends, to many working wives, are simply make a contribution to society so that the world extra working days -when they catch up on the ☆ ☆ vicissitudes of the GOP national will be a better place for his children.” administration. In fact, she seems ■laundry, ironing and scrubbing that has piled Up FRANK LOO, the young lawyer during the week. with the Taxas hat who was to survive better than some local And this: “There’s nothing wrong with women .chosen one- of last year’s most out­ Republicans. participating in such activities (community, church To inculcate children with the idea that it is standing young men among-Cham­ and political affairs). But the family leadership beneath Daddy’s dignity to pitch in when Mama bers of Commerce across the na­ ☆ ☆ ☆ in them should rest with the father.” has too much to do is stupid. It can only cause tion, is also just about the first . THE INTEREST AT THE UNI­ One more quote from the doctor: "If a father trouble for them when they grow up arid enter candidate to start .passing political a marriage relationship of their own. campaign cards. His is a rubber- VERSITY about the "Golden is respected, if his word is the law of his family, stamped piece of paper and he Rule” and its crew, pro and con, then automatically he will have a tremendous in­ The ideal marriage is a partnership, never a dic­ passed it out at the Democratic stirred up considerable sentiment fluence on his children. His son will want to tatorship, even a benevolent one. Oahu County Committee meeting on both sides of the question. Last emulate him when he grows up. And his daughter when officers were elected last' week an IMUA-like leaflet was be­ appreciating his strong masculine influence, -will Yes, there is confusion aKout the roles of men week. He’s running for the Senate ing circulated against the "Com­ accept his authority and trust his decisions. His and women — but it is mainly in the minds of from the Fifth District .'. . munist Peace Offensive,” with wife will likewise depend upon him.” men like Dr. Bettelheim who kind of like the slams being quoted from "official idea of being a “little king” in their home. • government documents" that look­ There are always reasons for this kind of article, ed very much as though they’d and they may not be connected with psychology. Flayjng “king” is for children. I suggest Dr. BOB SHAW, executive secretary been taken from IMUA stuff. But Perhaps the doctor wanted publicity for his books, Bettelheim get off his home-made throne and get of the Territory’s contractors it’s worth note that three Marshall or felt the need of a fat check. acquainted with the facts of modern American life. . licensing board,. deserves an apo­ Islanders and one Samoan were logy on last week’s front page edi­ Or possibly this is the opening gun in a Cam­ If he doesn’t’like what he sees, he can always inspired to join the suit against' paign to get women out of industry, in an effort to torial about him in the RECORD. all countries participating in atomic go back to Vienna. If they’ll have himi Latest I He was underestimated. Besides tests. Perhaps somebody should make the unemployment picture look brighter. heard, European women were looking at life with the salary of $900 a month, he al­ have had a few quotations from We- may be exposed now to a whole line of pro- new eyes, too. so gets a $150 monthly car allow­ Cyrus S. Eaton, the Cleveland in­ ance plus expenses when he trav­ dustrialist who recently told a TV els to the neighbor islands. audience on a Mike Wallace show that “Hitler in his prime, through from' Benny’s Liquors to Crown ☆ ☆ the Gestapo, never had any such Liquors. Interstate Ban Ike's 1952 Pledge THE LIFE OF-A VICE SQUAD spy organization as we have in As a "commissioner told Mrs. cop is- something of a trial at this country today. We're certain­ Heau, "You have two strikes on Reads Hollow Today times. Consider the case of Sgt. ly worse'in that' respect than the you already." On Booze Ads Larry Mehau who one night look­ Russians.” “Two and a half strikes,” put Today’s events in Washington, in Ralph Matsumura, Mrs. Heau’s which are spotlighting grave ed out of a restaurant window to ' Eaton went on tn list the agen­ see. several young servicemen twist­ lawyer. Urged by Solon weaknesses in the Eiseniiowef ad­ cies he meant, putting J. Edgar ministration, recall a speech made ing ftie aerial on his car radio. He Hoover and the FBI at the top Chairman Carson opined' he’d A bill (HR.4835) ■ has been in­ advanced on the scene and en­ seen a lot. of ball games, but never troduced in the House of Repre­ by Candidate Elsenhower at of the list. It all goes on in the Bozeman, Mont., on Oct. 5, 1952, gaged the party, rendering one in­ name of anti-Communism, Eaton a half-strike,. and a discussion of sentatives to 'prohibit the trans­ to a non-violent state and then big league baseball was almost portation In Interstate commerce when he was running for the said, though "there are no Com­ presidency. During the speech, he pursuing the others who took munists in America to speak of precipitated. That’s a portrait of of • advertisements of alcoholic flight. When he' returned to the the commissioners in an affable beverages by Rep. Eugene Siler said: except in the minds of those on “The things that have happen­ original location, the kid who had the payroll of the FBI.” mood. (Rep. Ky.). In speaking for It, the been “out,” was describing how he representative said: ed to us because we have had had been attacked by a bunch of ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ . ☆ ☆ "If we, as a' people, permit legal poor leadership are .obvious. We “local hoodlums,’’ and fought most advertising of any imagined value have no pqace abroad; - we have of them off successfully. He didn’t THE CROWN LIQUOR STORE, . ALEX SUMIDA, the late king of of a 25 per cent killer loose on great expenditure programs here;, even remember Mehau’s face. Mrs. Benny Heau proprietress, got Hawaii’s fleecers, once had to pay the highways, such as booze, then we have deficits in our budget; off with a notification Monday back about $6,000 he and a con­ we are very deficient, in cpminon and we have shameful crooked­ .after a case that had been laid federate- had clipped a Waianae wisdom an'd completely callous ness in high places and in low over once—a charge of selling a man for. A bondsman told the abdut the priceless value of the places in the Federal government. HARRY KRONICK of the liquor case of beer to a Roosevelt High story this week, • and he knew it lives lost. ■ . “All of that we must eliminate. commission was back on a pet youth. Although the lad had tes­ because' he surrendered Sumida “I am quite confident that when That is what we want men and theme Monday arguing that teen­ tified he bought the beer there after the incident. The victim got Judge Braude of Chicago stated women to coine to Washington to agers who buy at liquor stores and and identified the store and Mrs. Sumida out in a boat .^and told that 33 per cent ’ of child'delin­ do; to be themselves so incor­ bars should be arrested. He had Heau for the commission’s inspec­ him drowning would be his fate quency Comes from alcohol 'drink­ ruptible thdt there cannot- be cor­ a new scheme to catch them — tor, the lady said she’d' nev.er seen unless a confederate paid back ing, he knew whereof he spoke. ruption in Government.” that liquor stores might require him before, so she couldn’t have., the money. While the pair waited “Not for one moment would we purchasers to sign their names,- sold him the beer, could she? The in the boat, the confederate went allow some harsh hussy to adver­ when the dealers .are in doubt commission decided there was a and got the money and paid the tise the open door of her place of Iraq Women Get Vote about ages of the purchasers. It reasonable doubt, though Com­ victim off. When the bondsman prostitution, yet we permit the was pointed out, though, that the missioner Bob Kojima offered her heard the story, he surrendered worst of hussies, a promoter of The Iraq parliament has ap­ dealer, when in doubt, is not sup­ the chancd to take a citation, bring Sumida to jail and, his reasoning traffic deaths and child delin­ proved an amendment to the con-' posed to sell at all. And that was her lawyer into a hearing and was as follows — if Sumida had quency, to urge our boys and girls stitutlon, granting political rights the end of that scheme. prove her innocence. ■ Mrs.' Heau been drowned and the body to consort with her. to women with primary education. is a proprietress because her hus­ couldn’t be produced, he’d have "It surely is time to quash ad­ Iraq thus becomes the fifth ☆ ☆ ☆ band, Benny, lost his license last forfeited his bond. If the threat vertising of tills narcotic, ■ this Arab nation to grant women vot­ THE COPS would undoubtedly year for selling liquor to minors., had occurred on land,' the court hatchetman, this hussy, for the ing rights. Egypt, Syria, Tunisia like to know about the local bookie Mrs. Heau got a license later and might not .have allowed a sur­ sake of a better country and a and Lebanon have done so during who takes bets on all the big the name of the store was changed render. more salutary civilization.” the past three years. PAGE 6 HONOLULU RECORD MAY 22, 1958 SYLVIA PORTER SAYS IWILEI JAIL, 1909 . . . .iiniiiiiiiiiuniniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiM^ U.S. Dollar Now Chains, Sledgehammers Used to Worth Only 49c; Torment Strikers With Noise In Our Dailies The Honolulu Jail at Iwilei — Iwilei Jail as follows: Inflation Peril where the nuclear protest crew of “When about 40 fellow coun­ the Golden Rule was confined for trymen previously mentioned were “In the last 17 years of un­ contempt of court — has housed illegally confined to the Oahu IT WAS BIG BUSINESS as ments of senators who said the paralleled expansion to the U.S. usual — except for just one fleet­ $750 million fund they had voted other non-conformists, including Prison (Senda meant Honolulu economy, the United States dollar the leaders and strikers of 1909 Jail), the sheriff made some pris­ ing minute' — on May 15 for was NOT an anti-recession meas­ has declined to less than half its HAPCO’s cannery and plantation ure. and 1920 sugar strikes and the oners hit the steel cell doors very The mopey, they said, was to 1940 buying power,” says Sylvia Smith Act defendants. hard, several times, with sledge­ operations. Porter, syndicated financial writ­ hammers. The sound and echoes Tire operations were halted for be used, in “communities suffering Among these non-conformists, • from, chronic unemployment,” er. were extremely painful to the oc­ 60 seconds that day to “honor” “The dollar which .bought 100 those jailed to connection with cupants of the particular cells as (as the Star-Bull said) the mem­ that “the existence of such areas the 1909 sugar strike were prob­ creates, a nation-wide problem cents of goods and services in the well as their neighbors, because ory of James Drummond Dole, retail markets of 1940, now buys ably the most brutally treated. The the cells were lined up oh both HAPCO’s founder who passed and demands a nation-wide solu­ 49 cents worth,” she says. abuses of the Japanese were sides of the hallway, and their qway the day before. , tion;”.- ■ . “The dollar which bought 100 brought to the attention of the structure was such as to create Kamaainas saw it- as a two-bit •: There are 70 industrial areas in cents .of goods and services to the U.S. government by the Japanese the maximum reverberation. tribute to the man who pioneered 20- stages, the senators said, which wholesale market of 1940, now government. Hawaii’s $115 million pineapple “qualify for such help.” Sen. Clif­ buys only about 43 cents worth. “Furthermore, when the ham­ industry. ford ’P. Chase (Rep. N.J;) said “If you figure the total value of The victims of prison abuses mering of the steel doors was ‘These regions would' exist-’ when all goods and services to terms of were strike leaders Fred Makino, ended, iron chains were dragged ☆ A,...' ☆ today’s recession is forgotten.” then a drug store proprietor, Ya- around on, the concrete floor of 1940 dollar's, our gross national sutaro Soga, editor of the Nippu A COUPEE OF^^ONTHS ago product today is not the oft-puh- the hallway, thus causing the con- ☆ ☆ ☆ licized $433 billion. It’s $212 bil­ Jiji and Motoyuki Negoro, who finees to suffer the strange, the Matson Co. fan” Costly dis­ wrote “The History of Japanese abominable sound thereby created. play ads in the dailies devoted to SPEAKING OF ;,i?Aufo Buy lion. “Franz Pick, the international Activities to Hawaii, 1908-1909.” And this was followed by repeat­ self-praise about its research de­ Now,” a gimmick which the dailies ed hammering of iron bars.” partment. dropped as suddenly .as they bally­ currency expert in his new book­ Negoro’s book was published to But how much fdrepght have hooed it, demonstrations of un­ let, “The U.S. Dollar — Requiem the Japanese language. To this, the goveimment replied Matson’s research eggheads? A employed on the Mainland carry for a Dead Half,” says that ‘the that, although negotiation was go- couple of years ago, .'Matson put signs that say, .“Pay Days Make erosion to the dollar’s value can­ Besides these three, many other tog on with the -American gov­ the converted'liners Aiariposa and Buy Days.” not be, halted.’ ~ strikers from Waipahu plantation ernment, it was not the time to Monterey into the South Seas Commenting on President -Ei­ “Even the. men who still think were jailed and badly treated. make a definite statement about service, but it wasn’t long before senhower’s golf games, other-signs this recession is far from over Negoro sought $500,000 todem- - the extent of its progress. the service had to be revamped say, “Meat Balls—Not Golf Balls.” axe convinced . that inflation will nity from the U.S. government, with no call at Honolulu south­ jemerge as' our most devastating for the mistreatment and “illegal Negoro wrote that he and Ma­ bound. ☆ ☆ ☆ economic danger to the sixties. kino also made a personal protest “Right now, as we move to com­ confinement” at the Iwilei Jail/ to Hawaii’s Governor Frear. The latest example of Matson’s WITH THE EISENHOWER de­ His petition was sent to the Ja­ shortsightedness is shown by^ the bat the recession, we are'building pression in full swing, there’s a up news forces for a future infla­ panese government through Con­ Makino and several other lead­ decision to increase refrigeration lot of talk about holding or cut­ sul General Uyeno. ers of the 1909 sugar strike were space in the Maiiposatohd Monte- tion.” ting wages — but not a word about Negoro’s petition was brought charged with “a qonspiracy to :rey’ at a cost of $130,000 for each doing the same with prices and hinder the plantation •_ business,” ship. The r'esearch eggheads had before the Japanese diet in Feb­ dividends to curb today’s rigged ruary 1911 by Gunnosuke Senda. wrote Negoro. The “illegal con­ overlooked the possibilities of ex­ inflation. Sick Burdened by finement” was in reference, parti­ ploiting frozen meat,, eggs and He stated that two years had As every worker knows — es­ passed since Negoro petitioned for cularly, to the numerous Waipahu fruit exports from Australia and - pecially in Hawaii — living costs High Drug Costs, strikers who were arrested in­ New Zealand to Hawaii — a trade redress. He asked what had been continue to rise to .all-time record done on the matter. discriminately under false charges which is increasing' — when the levels. The dividends of compa­ But Industry Profits following the so-called “Waipahu costly conversion ,wa£ .done origi­ nies listed on Wall Street continue Senda described the - mistreat­ riot,” about which Negoro’s book nally. " to rise, too. In the first quarter of About 30 representatives of drug ment of Japanese strikers to the gives an interesting account. ☆ .☆ ☆ 1958, the cash dividend payout compapies ip Hawaii, each with totalled $2,179,860,580 — a first operational • headquarters, over­ ' BOB CONSIDINE, an Interna­ head, salary and expense account tional News reporter, said in 'his quarter record. OVER THE IRON CURTAIN The Eisenhower administration running to $1,000 and up, are ex­ radiocast Sunday that Pravda in amples of costs that boost the Moscow had de Vo ted two pages came to office pledged to end what it called the Truman-Roosevelt price of driugs In the U.S. •that day to Sputnik'in. He said The manufacturing cost of drugs U.S.-U.S.S.R. Culture Swap New York Pravda revealed that. "soon" Chi­ Inflation. But Ike's Big Business backers had othei/, Ideas, ns shown is 10 per cent of the wholesale na would send up' a satellite. Con­ price, according to figures of the sidine wondered1 'if the Chinese by today’s situation. What price drug Industry. Blockbuster; Likewise in Moscow would call it “dHdp'Suey-nik.” Ike-GOP pledges? The cost goes up because It is passed on to the patients by doc­ Since the signing of the U. S. changes the better,” and the Cliris- - ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ tors. cultural exchange agreement with tian Science Monitor said, “it LESTER PEARSON, the Cana­ Drug manufacturers send four- the Soviet Union to January, peo- should help Western and Soviet- CONSIDINE ALSO, reported that; ple-to-people amity between the bloc peoples to understand each J. Edgar Hoover, EBI chief, “who dian Nobel Prize winner, said last color brochures to ; doctors and week that today’s newspapers, .by numerous samples of their drugs. two summit nations is bearing other better and to submit their nev.er,. never gets mixed in poli­ fruit. differences eventually to the tests tics” — .publicly, ithat. is — joined and large, have becbinh transmis­ ' THE MILli'ARY services buy- sion belts for the mediocre, and tog drugs to'Hawaii are exempted of experience and discussion.” the throng at the Washington air- The Moiseyev troupe of Soviet port to meet Vice President Nixon not public enlightenment/, in their from paying the 3%. per cent gross Sen. Alexander Wiley (Rep. Wis.) frantic competition' for mass ap­ income 'tax. ClViffito hospitals to folk dancers took New York by on his return frpm Latin America. storm. Variety, the entertainment told the Senate that “the only Nixori‘'JConsidW said,- has won peal (advertising dollars). • ' Hawaii dr^' not exempted. type of guided missile, so to speak, - The local dailies looked like it trade paper, headlined its story: such ■ a windfall* totoe/sonal build- Dolors ha.ve been criticized for “Dazzled Plutocrats Cheer Moise­ we,.£yer want to send to Moscow, hp from the fiasco,‘of his tour when they gave -front page space their'aloofness, toward the cost of is ■ pjijipaan missiles who' will to how Zsa Zsa Gabor and Kim drugs. Many of them use name yev’s Perpetual Pep Troupe,” and that Sep; John F. Kennedy (Dem. added: go straight to the -hearts of the Mass.), whb may' be a rival to Novak have1 been ■ lavished with drugs when the chemical in­ Russian people.” Nixon in the.1960 presidential race, furs and autos' bry tfle "eldest son gredients' of cheaper drugs axe “A dressy crowd of American has demanded, “equal time” in of Trujillo, the Dominican dicta­ alike or almost exactly alike.. For bourgeosie yelled, shouted, and Variety reported that Bob Hope’s Caracas and'e^^wi^rel tor, a recipient qf! U.S. military example, Prednisone for arthritis ran out of expressions of . amaze­ recent visit to Moscow has “re­ and economic aid. wholesales for $170 per thousand. ment . . / The Russians were a vealed a veritable treasure chest of / * * The capers of tills Latin Amer­ Small companies sell the same tornado force contained within a Soviet attractions that can be ex­ ican married playboy (who has drug for '$100. typhoon.” ploited to the U.S.” It said, too, Speaking of hoover, m bis six children) hit the front pages that a Soviet movie delegation, Report/ last '.year on Communist at The same..time asWpe President The Christian Science Monitor now /to the U.S., is “reacting Party membership in the U.S., he .Nixon’s hot reception, south of boom for Itself. said: "With-this display of mutual favorably” to the idea of cooperat­ ■ claimed U? was 17,360, a drop of D^ninica, and (they ^shared- space, No wonder.. In the same issue of admiration, the historic Iron Cur­ ing with U.S. movie, producers and 14 pet: cent! ’This year he gave 'no atdp, with the crises-in Lebanon, the Star-Bull, Drew Pearson re­ tain has once again been rung actors an. making Soviet movies. figure in his annual report; Algeria and France.. ported how AT&T (the “untouch­ up on Soviet-American relations They ha’ra asked Kirk Douglas, evidently it was ludicrously small. able” ’ utility, he called it) has Hollywood^ star, to star . with a ; The Star-Bull, May. 14 added a feathered its nest with fabulous on the artistic front.” However, the ratio of Hoover^- &ap-iiappy item to Ite,garish front Soviet actress to a Moscow pro­ men to. communists is rising. The government contracts. Pearson ' Simultaneously, a 23-year-old duction of “Strogoff.”. new FBI budget calls for 14,025 page when it reported that its “four entries in the 32nd annual wrote: ' pianist from Texas, Van Cliburn, jobs. The number of communist "A total of 35 AT&T officials created a furor to Moscow by .win­ ’ Hdw this cultural amity has party members is estimated by Jumping Frog Jubilee” in Calif or- ■ have served inside tire Defense spread , to the industrial front was nip. had .departed safely by air— ning the finals of the Internation­ other Washington sources at Dept, alone during the Eisenhower al Tchaikovsky competition; The explained' by Sen.’ Hubert- H. about 5,000 — and of them, how a reassuring “all’s well with the administration. Some' have ■ been Humphrey (Dem. Minn.) to the world’’., touch for worried readers. New York Times reported that “he many are EBI plants? in and out of government like dazzled' the audience with a dis­ Senate. He said: \ „ Hoover claims today that the shuttlecocks, but as of today 14 play of technical skill that Rus­ FBI has “approximately 150” , A ☆ AT&T officials are still in the “For the first time in 40 years, sians have long considered their this coming August there will be known or suspected Communist HEADLINE HUMOR: "Chiang Defense Dept., ranging from Dep­ special forte.” ' front organizations “under investi­ Still Poised for Red China D-Day” uty Secretary of Defense Donald an • American, exhibit to the Sop gation.” Last year he listed 628 —the Advertiser, May 15, which Quarles down. This does not' in­ Van Cliburn, who stands 6 feet viet Union. That is a significant such organizations as being watch­ might have added “at U.S. tax­ clude the AT&T officials’ scattered 4 inches, was embraced by Nikita development. No other country ed. payer expense.” through other branches of the ad­ Khrushchev and the Russians will participate to it. ☆ ☆ A A A ministration." dubbed him Malchik or little boy. “The Soviets have made avail­ Then, to show how AT&T's He said, ■ “I’ve never known such able 250,000 square feet in Gorki “SENATE. APPROVES Anti- THE STAR-BULLETIN Apr. 17 “free enterprise” system operates, joy.” Park in the very center of Moscow Slump Bill” an Advertiser head­ reported how the American Tele­ Pearson specified a long list of and the Soviet Foreign Trade line said May 14, but the 'Tiser phone & Telegraph Co., world’s back-stage transactions that In an editorial headed, “The Ministry has set aside an alloca­ man who wrote it overlooked the largest company (assets $16 bil­ AT&T's ctoefully-placed men had Arts as Bridges,” the New. York tion of $15 million for purchases story which emphasized the state­ lion) , had reported a 1957 business swung. Times said: “The more such ex­ from US. exhibitors.” l|n|B|ll|B|»|B|ll|B|ll|B|ll|B|ll|B|ll|B|ll|B|ll|B|ll|B|l POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS ilillHllllBllllBlllIsIlllBlllIallllallllBllllBlllIalirlBll MAY 22, 1958 HONOLULU RECORD PAGE 7 Traffic Safety Why Eddie Tam Didn't Show at Demo Prison Grad Tells Court of "Quentin l|ll|B|ll|B|ll|B|ll|B|H|B|ll|B|ll|B|ll|B|ll|B|ll|B|ll|Bil tliitiriilaliilBliilaliilaliilBliilaliiinliilBliilBliiliili Convention; Abe Battles Co-ops § from page 1 § Treatment" for Delinquent Debtors Numerous familiar faces from running for the House of Repre- into effect at the end of this' § from page 1 § gone to an office across- the hall, past Democratic conventions were ■ sentatives. month. A successor to the post has and Leopoldo had found himself absent at the latest one, some for A couple of times friends told not been named. examined Falk ' but ran’ into talking to John Cluney, former one reason, some for another, but DeMello, "I always knew you’d Only one stenographer, Ethel trouble when he asked Paik if it captain of police detectives and none for a better reason than make a better Democrat.” Hiraoka, is left as an employe of wasn’t true the latter had "com­ assistant to Paik. He had told Chairman Eddie Tam of Maui DeMello’s candidacy jumped the commission and she is to bear mitted perjury” on the alleged Cluney the bit about the “Quentin County. Eddie didn’t get elected right onto the front pages when the title of executive secretary of debt in a previous court session. treatment," the defendant said. in his precinct club. Not only did Gov. Quinn teed off on him, with­ the commission. Judge Ing admonished the de­ “What is the Quentin treat­ he fail of election, Chairman Tam out calling him by name, at the According to report, Chairman fendant and told him he might ment?” asked Judge Ing. got only one vote. Thereafter, ac­ GOP convention, for changing his Moniz sought__to have the staff take the stand if he wished. “I have seen men killed,” Leo­ cording to stories from Maui, vari­ political affiliation in the fear put under the police department, Testifying at length, Leopoldo poldo said, "because they owed a ous friends approached Eddie and he’d be considered a “captive of but Mayor Blaisdell disapproved told how he felt cheated of the package of cigarettes.” told him, “I. want you to know I Big Business.” that suggestion. $249.50, which he had paid a little He admitted the phrase- and was the one who voted for you.” For a time, the police depart­ at a time from wages he earned the treatment came from prison. But it was air tongue-in-cheek, ft ft ft ment indicated a desire to run the at manual labor back in 1952. He Now he is rehabilitated, Leopol­ because every one of them had TOSHIO KABUTAN of Kauai function of traffic safety educa­ had tried to collect and had fail­ do said, and holds a better job the suspicion Eddie voted for him­ tion, but some years ago spokes­ ed, and had come down- the last than he ever did before. But in made one of the most impressive men Indicated the department felt self. pleas for development of the time when he heard Paik was leav­ spite of that, he had been in jail Noting Tam’s absence at the it was properly the business of the ing. for the, past four days, unable to neighbor islands, territorial or traffic safety commission. But he denied making the convention, a wag commented, federal. Kabutan, who is the make bail, Judge Ing wanted to “Eddie isn’t needed here this year. The staff of the commission was threat. know, why. not? Kauai County attorney, said he formerly under the traffic en­ “Without even striking him,” There are no compromises to be believes Honolulu is “overdevelop­ Because he got into trouble with made.” gineer, at that time Charles Welsh, Leopoldo said,, he asked payment Paik, Leopoldo said,* the other ed” by comparison. who is a member of the present of the money. He was referring to the last “Tourism, yes,”, said Kabutan. bondsmen refused to bail him out. convention when Tam stepped commission and who voted CLUNEY CALLED Later, after the court recessed, “There are miles of unpaved roads Wednesday to return it. aside “for the sake of harmony,” Paik had left his office and the RECORD approached bonds­ on Kauai and we have found that The fleet safety contest, built men to find out whether or not and backed Dr. Ernest Murai for a tourist doesn’t want to go out Democratic National Committee- up locally by Duncan, is affiliated bondsmen exerted that kind of in the mud.” with the National Safety Council. pressure. A rival of Paik’s strongly man. Kauai has also found it gets a But according to reports from Companies employing fleets of denied it. very small share of appropriations motor vehicles are encouraged to Paik told Leopoldo after the Maui, Tam’s poor showing at the for improvements. Oriental, Hawaiian precinct doesn’t worry him at all enter and compete for safety case that he should check the old Del. Jack Burns felt speeches of prizes, which are awarded both court records and he would find in regard to the campaign for the Kabutan, Reps. Stanley Hara and Girls Sought by Sec. county chairmanship. He figures fleet and individual participation. it’s another bondsman who owes Ray Adams were so effective that A number of the trophies were to him the money. plenty of Democrats and Repub­ he ommitted a similar treatment have been given by the traffic Service for Parttime licans will support him when he from his own keynote address. runs for reelection. safety commission. A report that Kellygirl Service, ft ft ft the firm that supplies parttime ☆ ☆ ☆ FRANK LOO, doing his best to secretaries, hires only haoles is SEN. KAZUHISA ABE of the tlon. The school bond issue re­ advertise his candidacy for the ceived a favorable vote, which re­ entirely and grossly false, Mrs. Big Island raised his voice strong­ Elizabeth Baker, an executive with ly against tax-exempt fishing co­ senate, tried to get a plank in the quires more than 60 per cent of Demo Convention platform to “earmark any moneys the vote cast, but Jimmy failed of the company told the RECORD operatives as a Demo platform this week. plank, but his was the only vote (sic) realized from the sale or de­ reelection. So you see, Bob, it ain’t cast against it. Like Tom Okino, velopment of the Ala Moana necessarily so. “Why we are looking for more § from page 1 g Abe is strongly suspected of hav­ ‘Magic Island’ reeflands or any Oriental -secretaries, especially,” ing financial interests closely akin other reclaimed reeflands in the ☆ ft ft said Mrs. Baker, “We haven’t been minutes allotted, for the purpose. to those of the big fish monopolies Territory,” to combat juvenile ALL ■ SORTS OF REASONS able to get enough. We need more Besides lambasting the Repub­ delinquency. He didn’t get any­ were being given over ’ the week­ Hawaiians, too.” licans, .pushing for more home who hold the fate of small in­ rule, and promising the utmost dependent fishermen in their where with that one, even though end and this week for the poor The report originated with an he spoke from the convention attendance at the Democratic unsuccessful applicant, but Mrs. energy for Hawaii in Washington, hands. To gain independence and one of Bums’ most interesting a way of pulling themselves out floor. The people interested most convention and what one speaker Baker said nq applicant is turned in developing Magic Island have openly admitted was the apathy down on racial grounds. statements was on the new dignity of an economic morass, the small Democrats have given the follow­ fishermen hav« sought the right ideas of their own os to how the of the delegates. One delegate "Many of them are married profits will be spent. thought there should have been women who have been away from ing of politics. to establish such cooperatives for Though the name “politician,” years and they have been crossed more women delegates and more the work for some time and have ft ft ft entertainment such as music .and become rusty,” the executive said. fell into disrepute in the 54 years up by Republicans and Democrats of GOP domination, the following alike. The plank’s in the platform THE ANNOUNCEMENT HASN’T hulas. Many felt there were plenty “We hire the girls we send out, been mode and probably won’t be of delegates whose participation and we guarantee the work, so we has gained new stature through now, but fishermen will probably the integrity of the Democrats, remain skeptical until they see made until after the sugar strike In sugar strike activities kept must test them,” she explained. is settled, but the best information them .away. Some felt it was the Many Are Service Wives Burns said. some action on it. Powerful sen­ Other speakers included Sen. ators dike Abe and Bill Heen have has it Billy Fernandes will again natural .consequence of moves by It is true that a very high pro­ be a candidate for 'the Kauai some professional politicians to portion of the girls now employed William Heen, Speaker of the killed it more than once in the House O. Vincent Esposito, Rep. past. ’ ' County chairmanship against ease labor out of— positions of by the firm are haoles, Mrs. Baker Manuel Baptiste. We were ad­ power in a trend that has con­ said, because most of the appli­ Stanley Hara, Rep. Ray Adams As adopted by the convention, and Toshio Kabutan. the plank provides 'for the forma­ vised, in fact, to bet $10 on it. tinued in various degrees since cants have been wives of service­ tion of cooperatives, and other We’d rather wait to see what hap­ 1950. One observer, something of men who especially desire part- Late Work on Platform' governmental aid to encourage the pens in the sugar negotiations a wag, commented that it was time work. Married Oriental wom­ Saturday night- - committees development of small business, first. because Burns got elected. If he’d en who apply generally seek full worked late to, form' 'a. platform,, farming, coffee growing, fishing, ☆ . . ft ft" been defeated, claimed this fellow, time employment, she said. though it turned out in substance ranching and other industries." MAUI DEMOCRATS have two Bums would have been gouging The doors of Kellygirl Service, to be that oftatewitears ago. candidates lined up. to run for the the party into action and his sup­ 1178 Fort St., are' wide open to One addltioaSBfes a plank ☆ senate, Nadao Yoshinaga and porters and his enemies would any girl who carigtype 45 .words a promising an -PBHKkw and aim— SEN. ABE took the convention Tom Ogata, but they’re still look­ have been at it hammer and minute, regardless of race, ac­ Ing to “preveriu^Hnmination" in floor to oppose a plank that would ing for a third. Marquis Calmes, tongs. The. comment was relayed cording to Mrs. Baker, though if rates of pajy, based 'upon race, kill the present "roll-back, pass- Republican, member of the house to Burns who chuckled and agreed anything they’re a little wider creed, color, or sex.” on” tax by merchants.. The plank last session will also run for the there, might be some truth'to it. open for Oriental girls. Another aimed to investigate would “require that the prices senate from Maui, and no one ft ' ' ft ft “apparently unreasonable freight stated or posted, whether by ad­ wants to run against him. Like­ rates.” vertising, price tags, or otherwise DEL. JACK BURNS, who flew Still another paved the' way for wise, Toshio Anzai, also a Repub­ in for the convention and flew but “NO WONDER, the Fifth Dis­ must be the total price charged lican and a former senator, is re­ government-aided cooperatives in the customer.” Although Sen. Abe again Monday, had a busy sched­ trict never geta anything,” Said ranching, fishing and farming. ported back in the ring and in ule what with visits to Democrats, a lady of Democratic persuasion Sen. George Fukuoka , of Maui was a member of the platform good health, and he still figures to • committee, himself, he moved to friends and .supporters, dinners, last week. "The people there are sat as chairman of the committee. be formidable. luncheons, '.coffee dates, continual never represented.” On the fluor Sunday, in the last delete the passage and, having What she meant was — the that motion tabled, rose on a point ft ft ft’ telephone calls and what not. He session, there was Utile argument, was approached on everything members of the legislature' who little objection, to the platform. of information to ask what good BOB DODGE, despite the small get elected in the Fifth District such a measure would do. Sen. from the Capehart Housing to Central committee members were vote he received as a mayoralty government publications on how don’t live there. Only two mem­ elected almost without dissent.’ Georgez Fukuoka, chairman of the candidate in the Democratic poll to make grass and flowers grow. bers of the house in the last ses­ platform committee explained that The only- question- rose when of committeemen, figures to run He attended a luau at the C-C sion from the Fifth actually lived someone discovered they were the committee wished to do away anyhow according to his own Board of Water Supply's new there, she pointed out,' these be­ about to elect a man who had with such misleading advertising statement. The talk Is that he building and ■ found his predeces­ ing Reps. George Ariyoshi arid been a Democrat only a short as Is now carried on by some mer­ hopes the proposed■ city charter, sor, Mrs. Farrington, among’ the Steere-Noda. The others ' actually time, less 'than the one year pres­ chants, and he reminded Sen. Abe will win by a good vote and some guests. Half an hour earlier, he lived in - the Fourth, she said, cribed by Democratic rules. He that all this had been said before of the popularity will rub off on had stopped for coffee at the Ding tracking down the residences of quickly withdrew and was replaced, in his presence in the committee him and makehlm a strong can­ Hau and cut up touches with the Speaker Vincent Esposito and , and still there was no. argument. room. didate. If it J;uYns out that the truck, drivers and circulation men Reps. Yasutaka Fukushima, Patsy By' four o’clock Sunday after­ ☆ ft, ☆ charter is that popular (by no from the Star-Bulletin, not .to Mink, and Philip Minn. Some have noon, the convention had been ADRIAN DEMELLO, personnel means a foregone conclusion) it mention a couple of guys named since moved to the Fifth and adjourned and neighbor island director at Hawaiian Pine and the still doesn’t necessarily follow that Joe who just happened by. By Minn is said to be 'running for , delegates were heading for the air­ most talked-of-candidate for su­ Dodge will draw the kind of Monday morning, with seven the senate, but the lady seems to port to return home. pervisor at the moment, was., an strength he hopes for. A few years hours sleep in the previous 48, he have a strong point. Are peqple “There is no controversy, “Sen. early visitor to the Democratic ago Jimmy Trask, while a super­ looked chipper'as ever. It had all who live In Kahala and reaf their Oren . Long had said, "and ' con­ Convention and encountered many visor, made a personal project' of bben a little hectic, Burns ad­ children there likely to. worry fidence breeds, apathy.” a friend from other walks of life. a referendum on a school bond is­ mitted, but not so much so as his deeply about whether or not the Whether or not it was bred by Among them was Al Mattos, sue. The vote was held on the first trip' back from Washington Fifth District gets Its JOng-await- confidence, ilo one could doubt ILWU unit head at Hapco, who’s same ballot as the general elec- last fall. cd park? there was apathy. Representation of Key Body Open Field for Nisei The confirmation by the Board of Su­ Burns7 Position pervisors of the mayor's four appoint­ By KOJI ARIYOSHI § from page 1 § weekend,” Burns says with a grin. ments to the City Planning Commission wisp. I think we have a very good Aoki, the delegate’s administra­ again resulted in status quo of narrow chance of getting statehood, tive assistant in Washington, . Out of the strife in the Japanese Chamber of ' representation of a key body in city gov­ though not in this session. But journeyed to South Carolina last Commerce, something apparently constructive ernment. before I would go for an elective weekend to attend an “apprecia­ emerged. governor, there would have to be tion day” for Congressman Men-- The planning body is extremely impor­ a rejection of statehood. There del Rivers from that state, and he The older leaders comprising -Issei and older tant for its decisions affect multitudes of has been no such rejection.” went as Burns’ official repre­ Nisei have finally withdrawn a considerable dis­ people from the rich to the poor, from big A push for an elective governor sentative. The south is not new to tance from their solid forefront position to in­ Aoki, who trained for World War business enterprises to workers. now, Burns believes, would “delay vite young ’ Nisei leadership to the front ranks. decision” on statehood. H at Camp Shelby, Miss. This change was forced upon the chamber by re­ The planning board’s behavior during It is one thing for people of And there’s another point. cent embarrassing events. The older group is not the Kalihi-Kai residents’ petition for a Hawaii to work for an elective "Beyond the matter of self-in­ expected to withdraw entirely. Their experiences, change, of location of a proposed govern­ governor on a local level, Burns terest,” Burns says, “we in Ha­ transmitted to the younger group through co­ says, and a desirable thing. But waii have the responsibility to do operative effort, would be beneficial. ment housing site demonstrated that city on a national level, since an elec­ everything we can to bring state­ planning activities concern all. tive governor is “an integral part hood about because we know as BIG CHANGE But year aftqr year, representation on of statehood,” the question ap­ Americans that Hawaii deserves pears in a different light, the it.” the planning board is generally made up of The stepping down of the old group marks a Delegate added. big and drastic change in- the Japanese community, real estate men, architects, engineers, CONGRESS DOUBTS DESIRE where the influences of the elders have been building supply house representatives and “There is some doubt now in No Job, Join Army strong. The area of their dominant influence and representatives of big land owners. Congress that .the people of Ha­ thinking, however, has been shrinking. The U.S. Army has issued a Even in Japanese-owned business enterprises, When housing is mushrooming in rural waii whole-heartedly, unreserved­ draft call for 10,000 men in June, ly want statehood,” Burns said. “I the AJAs are progressively taking over the man­ areas, and cutting into plantation sugar a decrease of 3,000 from the quota agership because this is good for business. believe that is partly because Ha­ previously planned. and pineapple land, it is high time that waii had representatives in the The army says that fewer in­ workers get representation on the plan­ past who went to Washington and ductees will be needed because of UNDESIRABLE ATTITUDES ’ * ning board. talked publicly for statehood, but an increase of jobless men volun­ who said privately they didn't teering for military duty. When the recent fight took place in the Japa­ Most of the planning board members want it now, and they preferred nese chamber over the election oF’its president, have their major interest in the Fourth things as they were.” the regressive status quo attitudes of the older Also, Burns said, the attitude of leaders became exposed. One undesirable attitude District. Fifth District representation is SOMEBODY BLUNDERED, of is the domineering behavior eft certain elements needed. many local people favoring state­ course, when capital punishment hood has become “defeatist and was abolished. Thus Rodney .Ya­ who have gained and maintained prestige through The planning board has much to say on an attitude of resignation I hate mamoto, alleged slayer of a Wa­ success in business and old-country ties. The‘pres­ to see.” Consequently, the pro­ tige of some= was highest prior to the last war when housing developments. It can, for example, hiawa woman, becomes eligible for key Japanese organizations in Hawaii had close bring about the development of residential statehood propaganda going from bail because there is no "capital individuals to Washington is not offense” in the Territory now, and dealings with and received counsel from the Ja­ areas through the utilization of raw, un­ as great as Burns believes it might the law excludes only persons ac­ panese consulate up Nuuanu Ave. In looking over used land, rather than allowing the with­ otherwise he. , cused of capital offenses from the history of these key organizations, I find that “But the opponents of statehood the resident consul always played a vital role in • drawing of productive agricultural land bail. But it’s all at the discretion their policy and activities. ' t for housing. Planning, employment, and are very busy,” he said. “They of the judge. write not only to Congressmen, health of the economy go hand in hand. Another undesirable attitude which was brought but also to newspapers and or­ to public attention, especially by the crusading Ha­ The price of land can be boosted by deci­ ganizations all over the country.” waii Hochi, was the bigotry of the Issei group. sions of the planning board. Burns is strong in denouncing Open Field for Nisei Whether or not Sadao Asato was discriminated The mayor’s re-appointmnet of real es­ a concept held widely locally — against by the dominant group in the chamber • that the Dixiecrat South is an im­ (Continued from right) when time for choosing the president came'is still tate man George. Centeio. and Lewers & movable block in the path of Ha­ an interesting subject. This was an accusation and Cooke executive R. Gibson Rietow, and waiian statehood. Whatever that to determine if the young AJA's there appeared to be strong support, of it; par­ attitude has been in the past, ancestors were of the eta caste in new appointment of Tyler Harr, an en­ Japan. ticularly because the Japanese who came from the gineer, and Cyril W. Lemmon, an architect, Burns believes the South is chang­ main islands of Japan have shamefully discrimi­ ing to favor Hawaiian statehood NEW THINKING NEEDED nated against and looked down upon those who show the need of greater interest by peo­ ■more. I have observed this man’s in­ humanity to his fellow people came from Okinawa. '. ple on the plantations, by people who arc SWING IN SOUTH intercsteil in buying residential lots or practiced with ritualistic ardor The current situation in the Japanese commu­ "We have 50 or 60 editorials and belief among the Japanese in nity can be appreciated, for example, from a re­ packaged housing deals, and by small busi­ from Southern papers favoring Hawaii, more so in the past. port of a chamber meeting in the Hawaii Times nessmen. — so that they too would get statehood for Hawaii,” the dele­ I am not ’ saying that the Issei of April 1. At the chamber board of directors’ representation on the planning board. gate said. "The last one was from leaders in the chamber harbor meeting, according to the Times, Susumu Yoshi- a paper in Rocky Mount, North such prejudices.. I am saying that kami said that “during his recent visit to the is­ Carolina, inserted in the Congres­ overall, new thinking of liberalism land of Hawaii, he was asked many times' by peo­ sional Record by the Congress­ and brotherhood must prevail. ple from Okinawa prefecture why Asato was not The Charter and Home Rule man from there.” What "transpired in the chamber elected president.” The intent of the proposed city charter Sen. Russell Long was only the after the' resignation of Asato forerunner of a number of South­ points to' many lessons that must The Times reported further in its Japanese sec- ... is to bring the city government closer to ern Congressman who have come be learned by people in the Japa­ tion that Chikato (Ralph) Honda “pointed out the. the people but the completed work of the to favor statehood, Burns says. nese community. fact that persons of Okinawan extraction have charter commission shows that confidence Others have included Reps. Cooper The taking over of the leader­ been writing ‘Okinawan’ as their race in applica­ of Tennessee and . Lanham of ship in the Japanese chamber by tion for government jobs. And he said, ‘This prob­ in the people was lacking by those who lem became known in aU the islands because the wrote it. Georgia who died last year. Some AJAs shows a definite transition. others Burns hesitates to name It must not be a break, because Honolulu Record copied the Hawaii Hochi articles, • The special treatment of the water board publicly since, for all the change, the past and what the old Issei exaggerated them, and distributed them through­ which would largely function independ­ a stand favoring statehood for leaders can offer, have consider­ out the Territory through the ILWU organization. ently under the charter detracts from Hawaii, can still be a political is­ able good that must be absorbed Therefore, at this time, it is absolutely necessary sue in campaigns at' home. by. the younger generation. to clarify the facts and let them be so known to home rule. The decisions and function of Burns cited one Congressman The struggle in the chamber the members and the general public.’ So Mr. Yo- the water board are important because from a Southern state who as­ that finally brought in AJAs to shikami made a motion to set up a fact-finding whereVer water goes land appreciates. The sured him of his Individual vote save-an embarrassing situation for committee.” control of the supply of water determines for Hawaii, but warned that he the Issei-led group is the second big struggle in the Japanese com­ But after discussion, Yoshikami withdrew his the development of land and on Oahu, might put out a lot of strange- motion. soundiilg talk before the vote. . munity over-the matter'of lead­ where residential subdivisions and deve­ “My opponent, is already using ership. An investigation of the prejudices of the Issei lopment of business sites are at a rapid it against me that I’m for Hawai­ The first major fight took place group would have been healthy. The RECORD'S pace, the people should have a more direct ian statehood,” the Congressman during the organization of the stories have brought abdut-f^ity Hall investigations, explained. ■ Central Pacific Bank. There too, resulting in improvements. \ say on the function of the water board. as in the chamber, the Daizo Su- The police commission, under the char­ AOKI IN SOUTH CAROLINA micja-led group bucked the new Honda talked through liis hat and gave the ter, would not come under the city but its But the. South Is no more uni­ tide. The supremacy of Sumida, RECORD undue credit on this matter, The Hochi members would be appointed by the gov­ form on statehood thqn on in­ the king-maker, was successfully sharply focused public attention of the injustices " tegration of schools. challenged then and even his close' to Asato and started the turmoil that crumbled ernor — who. is a political appointee of “I’ll be interested to See what associates among the Issei fled the old. .edifice’ of Issei leadership in the chamber. Washington. If the charter members con­ Dan Aoki has to report to me this his ranks. .The RECORD did a translation of 'Hochi and sidered the clement of graft and corrup­ Times articles. tion, they must have realized that only after the commission was made responsible ATTITUDE MUST GO . . . to the governor that the worst police graft FIDDLING AT CITY HALL Furthermore, ^.JAs of Okinawan ancestry who, scandal shamed the city in the 1940’s. as Honda says, are identifying themselves as “Oki­ (from page 1) nawan” are doing so because of the long history ed in Waikiki in tourist resorts is almost incredible. The of discrimination and insult by the Naichi people Illllllllllllllllllllllllllllll ears of people all over the Territory have resounded for years who believe in the fiction that they are superior. Honolulu Record Publishing Co., Ltd. with echoes of the drums upon which is pounded out the This attitude must go! . And another prejudice, 811 Sheridan Street, Honolulu, T.H. message of how important tourism is to the Territory. that against the eta? must go, too. It is ridiculous, PHONE 96445 Are the officials mad that they are willing to risk this in this day and age, for an Issei to trace back into the family line' of a prospective groom or MRinlaind $5.00; Philippines $7.00 allegedly vital industry on a variance that permits a builder bride who would become a member of his family Oahu $5.00; other islands $6.00 airmail; to reduce protection from fire? Or is it merely another case KOJI ARIYOSHI—EDITOR of irresponsible fiddling at City Hall? Continued at Left Sugar Strike Supplement HONOLULU

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Volume X, No. Thurs. May 22, 1958 ABILITY TO PAY The issue in the present strike is wages. When the sugar workers asked for 25 cents across-the-board in­ HSPA Cancels crease, 'the employers said it would cost them from $8 to $10 million. Medical Plan The union declared that the wage proposal would cost the employers The Hawaiian Sugar 'Planters Association noti­ Plan Agreement Reached—Union Agrees to Keep $3.7 million a year, after taxes. The employers have not disputed this fied the Sugar Negotiating Committee of ILWU Community Services Going.” in public. Local 142 on May 14 that it was terminating the The employer bulletin, said, “Jack Hall, union medical plan agreement as of May 31 because: spokesman, said the union was signing the new Since the start of the strike, the sugar employers have lost millions. “Sugar companies will not further subsidize the agreement ‘under protest’ and that before any sugar strike by continuing to provide, to striking basic agreement was reached, the medical plan Early reports said that the employers talked of a short strike, which employees, medical services below cost.” would be brought up by the union.” would put them ahead because they need not pay wages while the sug­ In replying to the employers' letter, Chairman "It is apparent to us” Shimizu’s letter said, “that ar cane grew. But now mature cane is not being harvested and succeed­ Mitsuo Shimizu of the Territorial Strike Strategy for some reason you are trying to ‘harden up” the ing crops are not being planted. Committee declared that on the matter of medical strike situation, taking advantage of illness, arid plan cost, the union had asked the employers prior injury over which the workers and'their families • Certainly the employers must have calculated that the losses sus­ to the strike for figures which are available to have no control, in order to divert public attention tained from a prolonged strike would pay for wages asked by the work­ them—but which the employers refused to divulge. from the only issue involved, a decent wage in­ ers many times over. Shimizu stated further: crease.” "We'understand that prior to the strike several The lei ter continued: "The few dollars you have On May 12, for example, Oahu Sugar Co. employes now on strike companies were nearly breaking even on the em­ spent, if any toward providing medical services to received letters from American Factors, Ltd., the agency which reaps ployees contributions and without any cost to your employees during the strike may be termed a themselves even though most employers in Ha­ ’subsidy' by you but then how much more has- the profits from the plantation, which told the strikers that 100,000 tons waii pay at ‘least 2/3 of the cost of medical plans the union ‘subsidized’ the sugat companies' ability of the Territory’s 1058 sugar quota was alloted to other producing areas and that with the increased dues, in effect since to prolong the strike” by: by the U.S. Department of. Agriculture. the strike many companies are making a profit on Maintaining experimental plots of cane; turning i he operation of the plan ...” over engines and motors to prevent their deteriora­ The AmFac letter said, “If this had been produced, the plantation The medical plan the employers are canceling May tion; permitting capital coristruction with the use would have received in excess of $15 million- which would have been 31 is now costing the workers more than it did prior of outside labor so that production , could be quickly to the’strike. Just prior to the strike the employers resumed after the strike and permitting refining . used' for wages, taxes to the Territory, -supplies, etc.” proposed to raise, the rates for single men from of foreign sugar at Crockett so that the employers, $1.65 per month to $4. Employes with spouse or could maintain “some semblance of your mainland In face of such losses, the Big Five prolongs ithe strike. Are they children paid, under the old plan, $1.40 for the market.” fighting the ILWU in hopes of weakening it, just as they took on a worker, $1.10 for the spouse And $1.10 for each Chairman Shimizu's letter to the HSPA negotiat­ losing fight in 1949? At that time they refused to arbitrate the long- child, up to $6 maaxiimum. Under the new plan the ing committee stated before closing, “We would shore wag^ demands and refused to agree to a substantial wage in- rate is a .flat $6.50, where in the past a couple paid .like-to remind yo.u—because you seem to ■ have $2.50 or a couple with a child paid $3.60 a month. forgotten it—that this is the year 1958. It is not crease when their shipping interest was paying 42 cents more on the Now the employers have gone so far as to cancel 1909, with those frame-ups and imprisonments of West Coast to ILWU longshoremen there, for doing the same work. this plan forced on the unibn. strike leaders, phony dynamite plots and mass The ILWU Reporter, the union’s newspaper, In- deportations; it is not 1919-20 with hundreds The Big Five cannot now argue inability to pay sugar- workers. formed the membership that “The union refused of evicted strikers .and their families dying in in­ Prior to negotiations that deadlocked and resulted in the current strike, to.sign any agreement which would bind its mem­ adequate shelters; and it is not 1924 with Hanapepe ‘ Alexander G. Budge, then president of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ bers in tire future- to such highway-robbery con­ murders. You will not be able to turn back the ditions. Yet it could not leave its members, wives clock to those ‘good old days.’ ” . ASgn., told the Rotary Club of Honolulu that the sugar wage bill had and children unprotected.” FOR A CONDENSED HISTORY OF THE SUG­ jone up from $48,174,000 in 1947 to $56,239,000 in 1956. Louis Goldblgct, . Tire employers in its news bulletin No. 10 issued AR WORKERS' WAGE STRUGGLE FROM 184> iLWU. International secretary-treasurer, challenged this figure. Some­ Jan. 31, headlined the medical plan- story: “Medical .TO 1958, TURN TO PAGE 2 . . . ) time later Budge sent a letter of correction to the Rotary Club, stating' ae had inadvertantly given erroneous figures. The total wage bill had lot gone up. From 1947 to 1956, the wage bill for sugar workers in the bargaining unit went down from $48 million to $37 million. This dif- STRIKERS' KIDS -rence would pay the 25-cent demand three times over. ARE ON THE BALL Budge has said too that the sugar plantations are almost dfebt free, if lei spending about $114 million for mechanization during the past WAIPAHU PARADE—Child­ lecade. Consequently, productivity lias shot up and cost of production ren marched with parents las gone down. The $114 million represent capital Investment. in a massive parade through On many plantations, during mechanization, ILWU members co- the plantation coinmunity, iperated with the companies, took small wage increases and even wage carrying picket signs that :uts. These plantations are now making money and the term “distressed” said: “WE CAN’T- MAKE io longer c[in be applied to them. And after mechanization these com- ENDS MEET’’; “MY DAD’S lanies laid off employes left and right. ON STRJKE; SO AM I”; “4 CENTS? NUTS”; '“ILWU IS The American Factors’ let er to Oshi Sugar employes says, "The HERE TO STAY.”- Pablo To­ inion leaders know full well that the plantations cannot possibly meet .. lentino, a field ground-crew heir demands. The attitude of these leaders is destructive.” man marches with the Who’s attitude is destructive? youngsters. 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Sugar Workers’ Struggle For A Continuous Uphill Fight. Wages In The Past 117 Years 1841—First known sugar strike will combine to keep wages high) among laborers, and the employer Farmer-Worker Solidarity in the Hawaiian Islands. Hawaii­ "but let immigrants come here in on the whole obtains better dis­ ans then were paid 12cents for large numbers and the market •will cipline.” a whole day’s work and workers break, so to speak. John China­ will have .to work or 1885, Feb. 8—City of Tokyo struck a Koloa, Kauai, planta­ man brought in 943 Japanese contract tion for 25 cents. After eight days starve laborers, to work ,for $9 a month their strike was defeated. "No sugar country in the world, (with food), or $15 a month 6f 1850—More unrest of Hawaii­ except Louisiana, pays as high 26 days., without food. Pay for an workers at Koloa reported. wages as we do, and there is no women was $10 a month. Hours Sugar planters organized their reason why this state of things were 10 for field workers and 12 first association to firm up their for mill workers. position. This union was called Hiroshi Goto arrived with the the Royal Hawaiian Agricultural K workers as a commercial observer Society (1850-56), and its purpose and championed the interests and was to recruit and maintain a SOLID GAINS rights of his countrymen who were • supply of cheaply-paid laborers— bonded servants. He spoke English. because the Hawaiiains resisted The struggle of Hawaii’s sugar workers for their share low-pay sugar work and revolted DESERTIONS against exploitation. of the fruits of labor goes back to the earliest days of sugar production—goes back 1889, Oct. 29—Goto was hanged CHINESE CONTRACTED beyond the first recorded in Honokaa, Hawaii, from a tele­ strike of Hawaiians for 25 phone pole, his hands and feet Jan. 10, 1852—First group of cents a day 117 years ago. tied. His murderers were haoles Chinese laborers; from Amoy During the period of the connected with a plantation. The brought in on five-year penal lynchers were caught ■ and sen­ penal contract system that FARMER-WORKER cooperation during a strike struggle is demon­ contract. Pay was 12’2 cents a followed, the demands were tenced—nine years being the day, or $3 a month, or $36 a year. for a more humane treat­ maximum penalty—but they all strated by two truck loads of head cabbages donated Maui sugar strik­ The planters paid an estimated ment. “managed” to escape from the ers by Kula farmers. Tons of vegetables from the farm area keep soup $48 a year for food, housing and islands. clothing. A total of 180 Chinese Until 1937 the HSPA re­ The period up to 1900 was that kitchens well stocked. Loading 'cabbage are Unit 32 (Pioneer Mill, La­ laborers .arrived. fused to bargain collectively of labor unrest, protests and re­ haina) strikers from the West end of Maui. They are (back row, 1. to r.) 1866—Pay of contract workers with sugar workers. It used volts against brutal treatment, the divide-and-rule system, H. Yap, M. Secretario and T. Aoki. J. Medeiros, Jr. is at front. —Photo was $4 a month of 26 days. poor or no medical attention, scar­ by Keiso Miyamoto 1868—Forty-eight Japanese con­ and even paid some national city of water for home use, scar­ tract workers arrived, on three- groups less than the others, city of firewood. Strike for higher year agreements at $4 per month, The lowest paid groups wages was "out of the question for with food, shelter and medical struck for equal pay. Work- contract laborers. care. ers finally organized into a 1890—Records of this year alone 1882—Sugar planters up in arms one big, inter-racial union, show there were 7,612 contract because Chinese laborers would The great tradition of the laborers on sugar plantations. Out not tie themselves- to contracts- struggle for a better life is of this number 5,706 were arrested after their old contracts expired. carried on today, and gains for deserting servitude, mostly be­ Chinese free of contract began, won by sugar strikers im­ cause of cruelty by management, arriving from China and spread prove the livelihood of not and there were 5,387 convictions. themselves through the Territory, only plantation workers but 'To counterbalance the Japanese offering themselves for labor at the economy of the Terri­ who were making demands for from $20 to $26 a month. Planters tory. better treatment and conditions, began looking for a new source of the sugar planters imported Chi­ contract laborers since the Chinese nese from 1895-98 in large num­ would not accept two-year con­ bers. Just prior to annexation tracts at (1) $10 a month with should continue. Wages through (1898) when further Chinese im­ $50 in advance, or (2) $8 a month these Islands should be cut down migration was expected to .be with $50 'bonus. .Planters organ­ to at least one-half of the present stopped, the planters hurrriediy ized the Planters’ Labor Supply & rate.” brought in more Chinese workers. Supply Co. 1883—Planters’ Labor & Supply “DIVIDE AND RULE’ STRIKES BEGIN Co. report signed by S. T. Alex­ HUNTING COMMITTEE members of Unit 7, Hakaiau, hauled back butchers prepare meat ander (son of a missionary and The Planters’ Monthly of Feb. 1890s—Average monthly pay for 10 sheep from high up Mauna Kea, and watch co-founder of Alexander & Bald­ 1883, in one of the earliest sugar men under penal contract was for cold storage. Shown above are (1. to r.) Fred Castro, Richard Paiva, win) , N. G. -Wilcox’. (also of a industry’s declaration of divide Albert Vierra, S. Furusho^and F. Souza. —Photo by Lody Reyno. missionary family), William O. and rule policy, stated: “By em­ § mare on page 3 8 Smith and A. Unna declared: ploying different nationentips, (Some say that the Chinese there is less danger of collusion

FOOD FROM THE SOUP KITCHEN at Wailuku, Unit 31, is distributed to central point and served, since the camps are scattered. This dis­ tribution point is Keichi Kato's garage at Fishmarket Camp. Youngsters, strikers and oldtimers, who have lived through many strike Struggles for a better living, come for their main dish, soup and vegetables which they take home. Rice is rationed to every household by the unit. Shown above are (I. to r.) Mrs. Kenneth Watanabe, Junichi ,Ka- COOKS STIR FOOD cooking in huge pans over families. Shown above are: (L to r.) Lorenzo 'Ca- bato, food taster. Aurelio Luna who is catching midoi, Hermengildo Tacdol, Seimo Oshiro with daughter Alma, Mrs. wood fire. This scene is typical of soup kitchens Fujio Uradomo, Miles Watanabe, Michael Okazaki, Dale Watanabe, ■ food he will soon taste, Seishi Matsumura, Ma­ Mrs. Y. Hiraoka, Sueko - Nakahishi and Catherine Kato. —Photo by , throughout the sugar plantation communities sayoshi Yoshida and Felipe Andres Via. ■—Photo Lucas Reyes where soup kitchens prepare food for strikers and by Lucas Reys MAY 22, 1958 HONOLULU RECORD PAGE 3 Whole Families In Wage Fight Federal Law Frees Workers From Penal Contract Bondage from page 2 housing and a workers’ committer conspiracy frame-up. J. B. Cooke, to look into any discharge of president of HSPA, gave the word $12.50 for 26 days, including quar­ Japanese workers. A letter was to the acting governor of Hawaii ters. sent to the Hawaiian Sugar Plant­ to pardon the four after they had 1900, Feb.—Olaa

From page 3 19 cents an hour.- tations, $1.06 an hour. Contract ignored. HSPA ignored it. Among 1945, Jan. 12—NLRB declares negotiated, providing a base pay the demands was one for an 8- sugar workers, except for field of $1.12 on March 1, 1957. Nego­ hour day. hands, are covered by Wagner Act. tiation concentrated on problems 1945,, May 22“Little Wag­ of shrinking job opportunities and Oct. 25—The Waialua Young ner Act” passed, becomes effective lay-off through mechanization. Men's Buddhist Assn, called on .all July 1, guaranteeing field workers New contract also included sepa­ YMBAs on Oahu and in the Ter­ the right to organize and bargain ration pay or pension benefits for ritory to struggle for a wage in­ collectively. workers leaving the industry and crease. The Plantation Laborers’ free transportation to native •Supporters’ Assn., led by Japanese 1945, Aug. 1—First industry­ country for aliens newspaper editors and profess­ wide sugar contract signed, esta­ 1957—Base pay on sugar planta ional self-employed, was formed. blishing a uniform wage system. tions, $1.12 an hour. It conducted a speaking tour of Pay upped 7 cents. the plantation districts, raised a 25-CENT DEMAND strike fund and mobilized support 1946 STRIKE for the wage demand. • 1957, Sept. 26—Union proposed 1946—Sughr workers demanded 25-cents across-the-board pay The Federation of Labor, with 65 cents, plus perquisites, union increase and classification adjust­ memberBhip on all plantations, shop, 40 instead of 48-hour week. ments for higher labor grades, suceeded the association, formed Employers rejected demand. thus raising the base pay of $1.12 by non-plantation workers to SOCIAL DANCING brings strikers and families together at Camp 7 1946, Sept. 1 — First industry­ to $1.37 and maximum pay of support the demands which would Hall, McBryde plantation, Kauai. wide, inter-racial- strike of sugar top grade group from $1.79% to improve the economy of all those i- - workers, involving '28,000 on 32 $2.46% an' hour. Sugar employers dependent on sugar workers’ nando, Cebu, in an affidavit de­ HSPA hired and paid for . the out of 34 plantations. First1 major rejected the offer immediately. trade. clared that all government wit­ government's prosecution attor­ strike won Nov. 19 (Pioneer Mill, 1957, Nov. 7—Negotiation* begin. Aug. to Dec.—Filipino Labor nesses were paid off by the HSPA. ney. Jan. 2, 1947). Perquisite system 1958, Jan. 28 — Union . in an Nev/ trial was denied, however. eliminated, wages raised a mini­ Union organized, headed by Pablo INTER-RACIAL UNION effort to avert a strike offered to Maniapit. Sept. 9—Police attacked strikers mum of 25 cents per hour cash, settle for “something less” than at Hanapepe, shooting from the with a guaranteed net increase of 25 cents an hour increase. Plantation workers during this not less than 19 cents an hour for SECOND BIG STRIKE heights into the banana patch period began hearing from sea­ area where strikers were camping. single and 23 cents for married 4-CENT OFFER men, from the Voice of Labor and men — after deduction of pay-- 1920, Jan. '9—Filipino plantation Sixteen strikers and four police­ its successor, the Herald, Hall workers struck, followed by Japan­ men were killed during the “Hana­ ment for former' perquisites. Mini­ Jan. 29—Sugar industry in. first ese workers. The strike, as in 1909, pepe massacre.” mum pay upped to 70% cents an offer made since negotiations was restricted to Oahu with out­ hour. started proposed 4-cents across- side island workers supporting 1925, March—Strike broken. Employer propaganda attacked the-board increase plus progress­ Oahu strikers numbering 8,000. ILWU, and started heavily finan­ ive differential pay hike to high 1932—Maniapit returns to Ha­ ced red-baiting attack against labor grade workers, thus offer­ Feb. 7—Maniapit ordered Fili­ waii. With Epifanio Tank and the ILWU. ing the majority of sugar workers pino strikers to return to work. Antonio Fagel, he organized the who are in the lower grades four Part of Filipino strikers return. Filipino Labor Union on Maui. T IGHT J OR SECURITY c?nts an hour or a few Cents more. HSPA, refusing to bargain, He left for the Philippines shortly Jan. 30 and 31—Sugar workers spent $12,110,317 to break the thereafter. 1948, Oct. 10 to Dec. 16—Olaa throughout the islands on 26 strike and its race-baiting of Sugar Co. locks out employes to plantations rejected the employer Japanese had no holds barred.. UNIONISM SPREADS force 17 per cent wage • reduction offer by 11,300 to 190 vote. “Bolshevism” was a line used by and to weaken ILWU. Union wins. HSPA and Big Five-controlled 1934—TLWU organized on the 1951, July — During the midst of 1958 STRIKE dailies in their propaganda. West Coast. sugar negotiation, Jack Hall, 1935, Nov.'4—First issue of Voice ILWU regional director, arrested Feb. 1—13,700 sugar workers Strike was lost July 1 and work­ of Labor which helped bring union under the Smith Act. Sugar strike 26 z plantations. Union re­ ers returned to their jobs. consciousness to the islands was workers’ negotiating committee turns to original 25-cent demand. 1922, March 4 — Fifteen 1920 issued. It was succeeded by the met with Hall . in Federal court Two Federal mediators arrive Japanese strike leaders convicted Herald and continued through building where the latter ' was to meet with union and employers. on charges of conspiracy to dyna­ 1941. held in custody prior to posting Mediation subsequently fails.- mite J. Sakamaki's .house in Olaa April 22—Sugar industry offers- during the 1920 strike. Hawaii Mid-1930s—Period of close con­ bail. Labor Assn, folds up after dis­ tact between workers in Hawaii 1953, Feb. 14 to May 27—Wai­ a two-year contract proposal. The agreement ‘among Japanese in and merchant seamen, especially alua Sugar Co. locks out employes union analyzed the 15-cpnt pack­ Hawaii on the question of forming during West Coast maritime over speedup dispute. age offer and declared it came to either a multi-racial labor union strikes when seamen were beached 1953, May 15—Arbitrator Wil­ 7 cents an hour under its most or a Japanese community service here. Organization of Hawaiian liam Cobb ruled Oahu Sugar Co. dberal iriterpretatipn. longshoremen begun. cannot make unilateral changes May 5 and 6—Strikers .reject organization. The sugar workers in incentive, speedup plan. the employer offer by a 11,060 to wanted a union. The Japanese 624 vote. consulate which had been on the HSPA MEETS . . . A HULA SOLO by Sally Ann De­ 1954, March 25—iSugar workers los Reyes of Puukolii was - a big win two-year contract, including a May 7—Sugar workers offer a employer’s side during the strike two-year\ agreement of 16-cent- was against the continuation and 1937, April 20—Maui sugar plan­ hit at. Unit 32 (Pioneer Mill, La­ pension plan with $75 maximum, broadening of the labor organiza­ tations struck by 4,000 members of haina) talent show. —Photo by excluding Social Security, a medi­ an-hoiir • raise effective immedi­ Vibora • Luviminda led by Antonio cal plan and wage increase to ately and seven-cent-an-hour hike tion. Masumi Fujimoto on Feb. 1, 1959. Proposal included Japanese plantation workers Fagel. $1.06 base pay, retro.active to Sept. 1, 1953. upgrading of top-bracket trade became disorganized and as a Vibora .Luviminda was’ the last edited on Oahu and Kauai, of the labor grades. ■ group made no more militant 1954, April 22 to August 28^- of the single nationality planta­ need of union brotherhood, inter­ Hutchlnson Sugar Co. struck after May 8—Employers rejected .new' struggle for pork-chop demands. tion labor organization. Its strike racial union and a one big union union proposal. 1922—During the fall of this workers failed to get1 anywhere was the first successful major for all. with authoritarian, hard-boiled May 14A-Three U.S. mediators year.iO’he Higher Wage Movement plantation strike in Hawaiian Organization of Kauai planta­ arrive for sugar talks.- - of Filipino laborers-was organized. policy of management. Workers history. It won a 15 per cent pay tion workers begun. tagged the policy “Beattyism,” Sugar industry announced can­ Key demands were increase of increase, the first ever won by a cellation of workers’ and families’ basic wage from $1 to $2 a day, 1940, Oct. 24 —U CAPAWA-CIO after Manager Beatty. direct result of a plantation strike. wins NLRB election among mill 1956—Base pay on sugar plan- medical plan as of May 31. without bonus. On the planta­ The strike which ended July ,19 tions the lowest-paid workers, was a turning point in labor­ hands’ at McBryde Sugar Co., I those receiving $1 a day for 10 followed by first written contract management relations. .The HSPA in sugar industry, Aug. 6, 1941. . hours of work were Filipinos. for the first time met with labor’s 1941, Oct.- 18—Wage-hour bill Filipinos demanded equal pdy for representatives. With the New inen and women doing the same signed, providing for 48-hour i Deal administration at Washing­ week and minimum wage of 25 }dnd of work. Notably, most Fili­ ton and employer dirti-labor pinos were single men and this tactics being investigated" at hear­ cents on Oahu, and 20 cents else­ demand showed advanced labor ings in Honolulu, HSPA’s attitude where. consciousness. 1941, Dec. 11 — World War II. changed. Plantation workers frozen to their Vibora Luviminda.strike was the jobs for as little as $1.50 a day FILIPINOS STRIKE ; first major plantation strike where workers themselves took the lead­ when defense ’workers were earn­ 1924, April 1—Filipinos struck. ing responsibilities and the first ing $1.60 an hour. In some in­ Pablo Maniapit claimed 12,400 in. which representatives of stances, plantation workers loan­ were out on 24 of 45 plantations. foreign governments were not ed for defense work laborered side Actually about 3,000 were on strike. called upon for help by non­ by side with defense workers who Cayetano Ligot, Philippines resi­ citizen workers. Instead, during were getting many times their dent commissioner, worked hand the strike, for the first time pay. in glove with HSPA, was exposed island sugar strikers received ILWU ORGANIZES for accepting money from HSPA. leadership assistance from Main­ which he told the Star-Bulletin land unionists. 1943, Dec. — ILWU launches was only a “loan.” . This came from a few seamen drive to organize agricultural and The strike hit a new high of who helped the Filipino strikers related industries/ It wins 150 arrests and criminal prosecutions. on Maui. Among them was Jack elections between June 1944 to end Maniapit, a lawyer, and Cecilio W. Hall, 23-year-old deck ' hand, of 1945, covering 26,000 workers. Basan. an editor, were framed up who had gotten off a ship two Hawaiian sugar plantations had on perjury charges. . Maniapit years before at Honolulu to de­ an inter-racial union for the first served minimum time- in prison vote his time to organizing work­ •time. and was sent away to serve his ers in Hawaii. July 16—Hawaiian Employers MARUIANO VISTACION and Serio Otlang play at talent show at parole on the Mainland. During the 1937 strike, Fagel . Council organized and soon took Camp 7, Unit 74, McBryde plantation. The teenage duet of “Chop Suey Pantaleon Enayuda, chief prose­ and nine others were arrested on over . all bargaining for employers. cution witness, later at San Fer- charges of kidnapping a scab. The 1945—Base .pay on plantations— Rock” went over big.