BIG REPUBLICAN PAYOFF The highest-paid head man in any of the Ter­ probably been closer to the contracting business the board and keep if. To get the $150 monthly ritorial smaller boards and commissions ap­ longer than any of the others. raise in salary after only, eight months of work, pears to be also the slickest politician. In a striking comparison, the Star-Bulletin all he has to do is talk the board members in­ He is Robert A. Shaw, long an active Repub­ last Friday listed salaries of other executives to it —■ a majority of the board members, that lican Party worker, and after only eight months of the smaller boards and commissions, and is. ' - of serving as executive secretary for the Con­ the closest was Theodore Emanuel of the Sub­ A contractor has to pay the board $100 for a tractors Licensing Board, Shaw recently got his versive Activities Commission at-$648 a month. license and there are plenty of contractors in salary bounced up from $750 a month to $900 No one has indicated that Bob Shaw has any the Territory. That’s where the money comes a month. special qualification for this job-besides being from for the salaries and for trips to the neigh­ Significantly, he achieved this miracle among an energetic Republican. Under the law creat­ bor islands. That’s where thb money comes government workers during the absence from ing the board and passed by the last session of from to pay for three investigators and a ste­ the board of its chairman, Dari (Dynamite) Ni­ the legislature,mo qualification is required. Bob nographer. shimura, and its vice-chairman, Q. C. Lum, the Shaw doesn’t have to know a shovel from a The Contractors Assn, of Hawaii wanted an. two members of the seven-man board who have pickaxe. All he has to do is -win the pleasure of (more on page 8)

READ: Fight For $1 Sugar Pay The Newspaper Hawaii Needs ' In 1909 VOL. 10, NO. 42 PRICE 10 CENTS THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1958 Page 8 Tree-of-Fee’ Proposal Startles Building Dept. POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS City, T.H. Moving Lydgate Said Dodging Fall Campaign; To Train Elevator City Attorney Chung States Inspectors-At Last Some Critical Of Craig's Survey By STAFF WRITER Position On Own Subdivision If present plans’of’the 0-0 De­ BEP. PERCY Lydgate of Maul, as the Republican most likely ,to About a hundred -people have A-l (7,500 square feet) residential partment of Buildings go through, called the City Planning Commis­ area. the toughest Republican the Dem­ succeed in the coming elelction, it will cost an owner of a build­ ocrats have tried to beat on the and he’s not exceedingly popular sion to ask why is H. T. Hayashi The Lum Yit Kee family sub­ ing $16 a year to have an elevator permitted to sub-divide a property divided the area in the 1830’s be­ Valley Isle, is rumored disen­ with the GOP party-liners. inspected, and a $15 inspection chanted with the whole political on upper East Manoa Rd. in small fore the area was zoned and the fee for the installation of; any non-conforming lot sizes, Accord­ non-conforming lot sizes are per­ picture and just about to remove ☆ ☆ ’ ☆ new one. himself from the scene, as well ROBERT CRAIG’S political poll ing to Leighton S. C. Louis, city missible. But if the plans of the Terri­ planning engineer. as from the pressures inside the of tendencies in the Fifth' District torial Safety Engineer go through Hayashi and some other build­ hard pressed Republican' Party. left a good deal to be desired, as Some months ago the Manoa ers ‘ are subleasing the area > from on schedule, the owner . of the Community Assn, asked the same Some very reliable sources report some Republicans saw it,- and building can get the same service City Attorney Norman Chung and' that’s-not merely because it didn’t question of the planning commis­ associates, who leased the parcel Lydgate has scheduled a; round- from his insurance company for sion. Planning Engineer Louis told the-world cruise to coincide with, show the GOP in a very favorable no charge at all. It is the opinion from -the Lum Yit Kee estate. The the (joining campaign and won't light. It showed that only 8 per the group that there was nothing builders are selling the houses of the Territory’s Safety Engineer irregular about the development. be around when the shooting cent of those interviewed felt Robert Ebert .that the insurance on 55-year lease properties. Prices starts. themselves "definitely Republi- inspectors will do a better job ^SUB-DIVIDED IN. ’30’S range from $19,000 to $21,000. That leaves Rep. Marquis Calmes § more on page 7 § for nothing than the city inspec­ Even today many are asking the Ground rental jruns from $.240 to tors have been charging fees for same question because the houses about $300 a year. 8 more on page 4 § are- built so dose and lots are City Attorney Chung and asso- Kaiser Alumni Growing; small (2,600 to 6,000) in Manoa’s g more on page 7g- Lewis Said Eyeing KHON Cuskaden Appeals Kahuku Turns in Truck Licenses; The purchase of KULA-TV by And a lot of people, either at Firing; Chief Liu Will Get Two-G Rebate Junie 30 Kaiser was inevitable, knowledge­ KHVH, or KULA ox both are ex­ Kahuku is thus far the only Others point out tha.t it may only able sources say—only a matter of pected to be joining the ‘‘Kaiser Oahu sugar plantation to take ad­ mean Kahuku ' management was time and price. But they also say Alumni Assn.” shortly. May Be Witness vantage of a gimmick by which more alert. to this gimmick than the total cost' to ■ Kaiser of the Aku After KHON? Officer’ E. L. Cuskaden is ap­ it may save some money oh. .truck other Oahu plantations. station will be closer a million Meantime, Hal Lewis, or J. Aku- pealing his dismissal from the licenses by “storing” its vehicles, Oh Big Island, Too bucks than the $650,000 mentioned head Pupule as his large radio police force following an incident turning in license plates to the From the Big Island comes re­ in the press. audience knows him, is reported . involving Deputy Chief Arthur C-C Treasurer, and claiming a port that some plantations have For one thing, a lot of KULA’s considering a dicker along with Tarbell three weeks ago~ when .refund for a quarter of the year applied for vehicle license' rebates equipment is said to be only par­ other parties to purchase _ Radio. Tanbell had clocked him allegedly in which the trucks are not in use. for the second quarter of this year, tially paid for. Station KHON, presently owned driving 55 miles an hour in a Kahuku on March 31 notified while others have not. by the General Motors heiress, 25 mllle-per-hour zone. Treasurer Lawrench S. Goto that ' Those who hear of the move For another, Kaiser’s liquida­ express surprise because in the tion of his own station, the pres­ Shirley Louise Mendelson, and Attorney Howard Hoddick has it had put its vehicles in storage quoted at an upset price of $50,000. been retained by Cuskaden to help as of Feb.. 19, and at that time past it was impossible to "store” ent KHVH, will not be without an automotive vehicle and avoid loss. Many in the business consider make his presentatiorf before the turned in its license' plates to the price a bargain for anyone police commission. claim a $2,634,15 refund at the ‘paying the license tax. There were But Henry J. is getting what who wants a radio station,’ and At the time of the incident, end of June. cases in which an automobile he hoped for—a hookup with the they figure Akuhead might have Cuskaden had /been off duty for But if it seeks to reactivate the “stored” for a number of years American Broadcasting Company the cash to swing it. The talk is some time and walking with the vehicles before the end of , June, would be purchased by someone system and a better spot on the he could cash in the unfinished aid of a crutch as a result of a hip no refund will be made. who would find himself stuck for dial, not to mention such good part of his agreement with Henry injury. He ■ has applied for a dis­ The action is interpreted by all the unpaid license. time. will, as KULA had. The new sta­ J. for something like $125,000, ability retirement, but police of­ some who know of it as indicat­ Two legislative sessions ago, tion is to be called KHVH-TV just which would leave him the price ficials say the dismissal' will not ing that the plantation manage­ however, the law was changed, to the same, according to reliable of KHON with a few bucks to affect that - application, regardless ment expects the strike, gone now permit such storage, quarter by report. spare. § more on pa’ge 7 g past 100 days, to last through June. g more on page 4 g PAGE 2 HONOLULU RECORD MAY 15, 1958 HISTORICAL ECHO 1912 Stock Car INSIDE THE GOVERNMENT SERVICE

WORLD EVENTS Races at Waikiki KAUAI’S COUNTY Attorney, HAWAII COUNTY has finish­ Toshio Kabutan, had a complaint ed the technical work, but has not when the territory’s' civil service put the new job titles and pay Ired Esthetes officials met at the Reef Hotel levels into effect. Members of the recently. Board of Supervisors have argued Showdown Mounts oh U.S. Doorstep By SPECIAL WRITER that Hawaii can’t afford the high­ According to Kabutan, there are er rates o‘f pay. The jolting of Vice President Nixon’s 18-day tour of eight Latin Last weekend “Hawaii Speed too many confusing terms being American republics is food for U.S. thought. Historically, the U.S. has Week” was celebrated by three used in connection with govern­ Last week, a committee of of­ supported and become identified with the region’s reactionary rulers, days of sports car races at Dilling­ ment workers’ pay and classifica­ ficials of the United Public Work­ ham Field and there, were the while it neglected the rising social and political aspirations of the peo­ tion. ers met with the supervisors to usual- stock car races at Honolulu “If you want to change your discuss the situation. The commit­ ple. Stadium. Admission charges ranged status, you can be either real­ tee consisted of Shosaku Nakamo­ from 50 cents to $2. to, Maui Division secretary-treas­ The Roman Catholic church, predominant there, last year saw the located, reassigned, or reclassi-, But, back in 1912, when the first fied,” he said: “If that doesn’t urer of the union, Henry Epstein, danger signals and the Pope created the Institute of Latin American auto races were held in Honolulu, work, you can be repriced. If you territorial director, and Goichi Ito, Studies to indoctrinate priests in a new Vatican policy of avoiding admission was free. They were can’t get a raise out o‘f repricing, Hawaii division business agent. held in unfenced Kapiolani Park. the stigma attached to the U.S. you can always be realigned,” lie It wasn’t ■ smooth cruising for added. The committee met with the the promoters, according to the Last month a top official (a U.S. citizen) of the Office of American “Yes,” added one of the com­ county’s finance committee for Star-Bulletin1 of Aug. 17, 1912, several hours on May 8. It also States, who has resigned his post, declared that U.S. relations with Latin missioners. “If this doesn’t work, which headed a two-column front­ you can always be reincarnated met with these county officials: America “are at their lowest point since the 1920’s." This situation is page story: • after you die and start all over the county auditor, personnel di­ rector, county chairman and coun­ reflected at the United Nations where the Latin American bloc does “Anti-Bill Boarders Attempt to again!” not automatically support the U.S. any more. ty attorney. Put Crimp in Auto Meet.” ☆ After three days of intensive It transpired that the promoters research, the UPW committee an­ Beset by political forces demanding better living standards, the had used billboards to advertise COUNTY ATTORNEY Kabutan has a point. Since 1955, a num­ nounced that there was enough Latin American governments — too dependent on trade with the'de- the meet which offended the eyes money available, to put the re- of local esthetes, the forerunners ber of new words have been added pression-plagued U.S. economy — have been forced to turn to trade to the vocabulary of government pricing program into effect no of today’s Outdoor Circle. The later than Sept. 1 of this year. channels elsewhere, notably with Western Europe and the Soviet Union. Star-Bull reported: workers. Newsweek magazine noted that “one visitor who was-not heckled and “Former Gov. George R. Carter “Repricing” started after the_ The committee’s report empha­ sized that repricing is , based on who frequently collided with Nixon was Mikhail Tarasov, a vice chair­ this morning withdrew his sanc­ 1955 session of the Legislature. tion of the automobile race meet The pay scale was expanded from “Equal pay for equal work” and man of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, heading up an imposing and at the same time withdrew 16 pay grades to 31. The personnel is not a pay raise program. delegation.” his entries from the races.” directors were authoriz'ed to make A promoter, Norman B. Courte­ changes in pay when they were ☆ ☆ ☆ It is from the student groups, which needled Nixon, that leaders of nay, told the Star-Bull: "A morn­ - justified. FOR TERRITORIAL workers, tomorrow will come, and that is why Nixon sought them out. They ing paper tried to dictate to us by Both the territory and the city the key word is “reclassification.” With repricing out of the way, aren’t "mobsters” and "communists." Smearing them only makes them saying that unless we tore down and county went into repricing on our billboard advertising, we would a big scale. The personnel direc­ the civil service commission is re­ more receptive to non-U.S. overtures. They told Nixon to “go home” get no mention in its colmns. We tors ' made changes, if workers viewing every classification in the because they see him as putty in the hands of Wall Street bankers, felt this was a trespass on our were not satisfied they could ap­ territorial service. the shadow rulers of the U.S. policy which Latin Americans know as rights." peal to the civil service commis­ Governor Kling assisted the com­ sions. mission in asking the territorial Yankee Imperialism. ■ ■ Two days later, the Star-Bull reported how “persons unknown” The . territorial repricing pro­ departments to lend personnel had “pasted brown wrapping pa­ gram went into effect on April 1, people to the civil service staff to per over posters advertising the 1956. The Honolulu ■ changes went assist with the work. . . J. Whirlwind in the Middle East auto races.” into effect in two parts. The work Department personnel officers Charles R. Frazier, president of of Mrs. Nesta Gallas, then per­ are assisting the civil service peo­ The destruction of U.S. facilities in Lebanon is another anti- the Pioneer Advertising Co., which sonnel director, was on the pay­ ple on a part-time basis arid the Western action by the same forces which drove out Anglo-French had prepared the posters, said: checks of March 16, 1956. The com­ review is moving ahead, Imperial interests from the Middle East. "This act is a trespass on private mission’s decisions started on property and a positive injury to Sept. 1 of that year. ☆ ☆ ☆. The vast area Is the home of 40 million Arabs who. have lived too legitimate business.” He took a REPRICING, reallocation, re- Many people have the impres­ alignment, or review — it all adds long In scml-slavcry and abject poverty under their Western-financed display ad in the Star-Bull offer­ ing $25 reward "for information sion that the. repricing program is up to long overdue changes for rulers. Today It is the world's greatest reservoir of oil. The oppressed that will lead to the arrest and designed to give government work­ the territorial and county work­ people want to benefit from the wealth. conviction of thp vandals.” ers a raise. That’s not true. It was ers of Hawaii. The Star-Bull gave front-page intended to provide for the switch The U.S. moved into the Middle East only 10 years ago. It estab­ coverage to the meet and ran four from 16 pqy levels to 31; to recog­ lished military bases and armed the rulers astridp the oil wells for news photos of the autos in ac­ nize inequities that have built up over the years; and to recognize U.S. Spent $200 Bil. private Western exploitation. tion under a headline: “Kodaks Get Snapshots of D,aring Drivers “Equal pay for equal work.” There have been raises under in The rise of Nasser in Egypt and his defiance of the West has made on Track!” Said the Star-Bull: For Arms 5 Years; “With a rapid fire rattle of ex­ repricing, but many jobs have not him a champion of ,Arab nationalism which is venting its anger in hausts, the first real auto' race been changed. 'Utterly Wasteful'-lke Lebanon. The Soviet’s invitation of Nasser to Moscow, and Washing­ meet ever held in Honolulu was ☆ ☆ ☆ Speaking to the American So­ ton’s about-face on its anti-Nasser stand, give more hope to the op­ successfully run off at Kapiolani Park.” NEIGHBOR ISLAND workers ciety of Newspaper Editors in con­ pressed Arabs. They have taken the initiative from the West. have the most to gain from these ference at Washington, D.C., There were no accidents, even President Eisenhower said: though the track wasn’t banked. programs because they have gen­ A big Palmer-Singer “Six” own­ erally received less than Honolulu “It; is hard to grasp the enormi- ‘ Nuclear Road to the Summit ed by L. L. (Link) McCandless won public employes for the same ty of our own military expendi­ both the five and 10 mile main work. tures. -In only five years, they are Maui is the leader among the almost $200 billion. This- colossal Before he went to the NATO meeting in Denmark, John Foster events. It was “stripped down to expenditure has cost us far more Dulles addressfed the U.S. Military Chaplains Assn. He saiej, inter alia, essentials, and with the exhaust neighbor islands. Maui workers ’ shooting from the side of tire have been reclassified and the re­ than dollars alone. that “our nation was founded as an experiment in human liberty,” and hood," the Star-Bull reported.' It pricing program, based on the “In a less threatening world, how that “we'must not accept an armaments race, as if to be the greatest was driven by J. C. Cluny. Me­ .work of tlie personnel director, much it could have meant to us. military power were a worthy or acceptable goal.” chanic was J. C. Nunes. went into effect last Dec. 1. Maui In private or public spending, this They did. the five miles in 5:57, workers also received 60 per cent $200 billion could have bought.: At NATO, Dulles faced the European policy of disengagement. The mins, and the 10 miles in 11.44 of the Back pay due them. "Of highways, the entire ha­ tion-wide Interstate /System; of Europeans, who are critical of the U.S. policy toward the Soviets, want mins. Further adjustments are needed That night the auto owners and to bring the Maui workers up to hydroelectric power, every worth­ to disengage from any move that might involve them in war. They fans dined together at the Young the levels set by the Honolulu while project in America; of hos­ will be secure, they argue, if the three nuclear powers ban such Rathskeller .and organized the commissions on appeal. This is pitals, our ""heeds for TO years to weapons. Honolulu Automobile Assn, with called “realignment” and is now come ; of schqpls, our next decade’s the following officers: Gus taking place on Maui. requirements’, including catching The NATO nations are well aware that a disengagement showdown Schaeffer; president; Sidney Jor­ The Maui 'civil service commis­ up on present shortages. is underway in Washington between President Eisenhower’s Science dan, vice president; F. W. Wich­ sion, met last Wednesday to dis­ "Clear it is that this armaments Advisory Committee and the powerful banking-industrial-military in­ man, treasurer; and W. Douthitt, cuss realignment' and many ap­ race — so terrible, so utterly secretary. - peals are expected under this, pro­ 'wasteful — has imposed tragic terests which back the all-out nuclear arms race of the Atomic Energy gram. penalties upon America- and all Commission. mankind.” The senior U.S. scientists, who advise the president, say that nu­ The London Daily .Mail reports ☆ ☆ . clear testing should be halted because the weapons of the future that it costs Britain $3,750,000 an­ KAUAI STILL has not com­ nually to maintain its embassy in "would not be substantially cleaner” than those of today. An adequate­ pleted all the work on the re­ Washington. Sir Harold Caccia, classification and repricing studies. ly safe-guarded agreement with the So'viets, they argue, would en­ the ambassador, draws $76,000 ex­ Changes for the per diem work­ ' HONOLULU RECORD hance the security of the U.S. and help to create trust at the' summit. pense money. ers stalled the changes, but these Published Every Thursday Failure to attain an agreement, the scientists feel, “could leave are about finished. by President Eisenhower’s 1958 tensions and, therefore, the danger of war more desperate than the For many' years, Kauai county Honolulu Record Publishing Economic Report shbws that, un­ employes were the lowest paid Company Ltd. absence of any agreement to suspend tests.” der his Big Business administra­ government workers in the Terri­ 811 Sheridan St., Honolulu 14, T.H. The president, reportedly, is veering away from the AEC line and tion, personal income from divi­ tory. This has changed in recent Entered as second-class matter Dulles is taking a less arrogant attitude toward sumrriit plans. His dends has increased from a grand years, and the repricing program May 10, 1949, at the Post Office total of $12.3 billion in 1952 to address to the military chaplains reflected his new stand. will completely wipe out the dif­ at Honolulu, Hawaii, undei the $18.8 billion in 1957. ferentials. Act of March 3- 1872 THEY HAD NO UNION IN 1909 MAY 15, 1958 HONOLULU RECORD PAGE 3 Japanese Workers Struck For Equal Pay For Equal Work From May 9 to Aug. 4, 1909, ers at Waipahu had struck. With some 7,000 Japanese workers were their Aiea brothers, they deposit­ involved in a strike against sugar ed $4,000 in the Yokohama Specie plantations on Oahu. Bank and set up headquarters They struck for wages and con­ with a soup kitchen in Aala Lane ditions equal to those of the in Honolulu. Portuguese, Puerto Bican and other sugar workers who were re­ THE DEMAND ceiving $1 a day and more while In letters to the plantation man- - the Japanese, doing the same work, agers, the strikers said their labor were being paid $18 for 26 days. “contributed to the growth of Before the strike, the discrimi­ the rich industry,” and they asked nation of the sugar companies for a “pay increase of $8.00 per against the Japanese had forced month of 26 working days worked, them to organize on each planta­ and the work day to be limited to tion, and each unit maintained 10 hours with overtime at 15 cents, contact with the Japanese High­ and double-time on Sundays." • er Wage Assn, in Honolulu. The The managers refused to dis­

STRIKE VICTORY GARDENS spotted through­ and Swiss chard. This garden, one of many in The 13,800 sugar workers now in their 104th out plantation communities provide vegetables for Central Maui, was being tended on April 28 by day of the current strike have their roots in the soup kitchens. This garden area—loaned to Unit the following pickets (I. to r.): Yoshio Yoshida, struggles of the past. The strike front is solid. 31, Wailuku, by Jitsujl Takamiya, a striker him­ Matsuo Horiuchi, Isami Toyota, Juichi Ichiyama, This is the first part of a two-part series bn the self, as of April 30 had given to the strikers’ food Minoru Toyota arid Kesaji OgaWa. They are har- 1909 strike written from information taken out table the following: won bok, 1,344 lbs., spinach, vesting: iron bok. In the background are beans of the Evening-Bulletin’s 1909 issues. The facts 50 lbs., lettuce, 113 lbs., string beans, 311 lbs., covering supporting poles. show clearly that in 1909 the sugar’ workers did. beets, 120 lbs., daikon, 313 lbs., and cucumber not have a union, that they were divided and not welded together into a multi-racial union like the ILWU, and they lacked- the present-day experi­ taken until . . . the attempt to were "giving free attendance.” Ha­ flammatory articles in his paper, run the sugar industry from the waiian Fisheries, Ltd. gave out free which are supposed to have been ence. Today’s sugar workers have benefited from office of Japanese agents and fish. largely responsible for the strike.” the experiences of the past. shyster lawyers in Honolulu has CHINESE COMPLAIN On. June 1, Tenney issued an­ been brought to a showdown.” other statement- which claimed By May 24, the Hawaiian and On May 17, the Bulletin pressed that “the average wage earned Chinese scabs were having trouble, per month of 26 days by all Ja­ leaders of the association were cuss the letters until the men re­ again for a statement from the the Chinese claiming they were newspapermen, hotelkeepers and turned to work. The Bulletin said, HSPA so that “the community panese men, women and children being discriminated against. Po­ employed at Ewa was $23,16. .In others from the Japanese com­ “Tills is a question of the Bludge­ should be set right.”' It said so lice used clubs at the depot. The munity. on vh. Decency, the Grafting Agi­ many strike breakers were seeking 1907 it was. $18.31 and In 1908, Bulletin noted that the “strike $21.01.” tator vh. the Honest Workingman.” work that "cattle cars were re­ breakers were patronizing only WSPA REFUSED quisitioned." On June 2, the Bulletin said On May 14, the Japanese at white and Chinese merchants.” The largest newspaper In Hono­ The HSPA summoned plantation Soga’s trial had been postponed lulu" was the Evening Bulletin, Ewa struck, making a total of It ran a feature story headed, until September. The Retail Mer­ “5,200 men on strike.” The Bulle­ “Strike Breaking Is Great Joy,” managers from all islands to a edited by Wallace .Rider Farring­ conference in Honolulu. chants Assn. donated $1,000 ton. It covered the strike with tin claimed that "a larger number and said that the mobs at the to the strikers and Said it of Japanese workmen on o’ur sug­ train depot were handled by Royal On May 25, Japanese workers ■"will continue to give its financial ar plantations are receiving more D. Meade of the HSPA, aided by met at Wailuku and formed a support;” On Molokai, 150 Japa­ than $18.00 a month, than are sons of Big Five families. “Meade Maui branch of the Higher Wage nese workers donated $400 and less.” placed his men all right/’ the Assn. and. sent “$500 to the Oahu “stood ready” to help more. Ja-\ Bulletin said. “They were real • strikers, with more to come.” panese all over were with the strik­ The .Bulletin called for “a terse, huskies, too. Two Walker boys, pointed statement by the HSPA ers. For 'example, “about 80 bar­ Frank Armstrong and George Oh May 26, the HSPA, after bers in Honolulu are determined (which) should clearly put before Fuller, and Jimmy Robertson to meeting with the managers; stat­ the people, of the islands the facts to see the strikers win their vic­ lend dignity to the occasion. Then ed, “It is the sense of this meet­ tory.” . in regard to wages. A declaration ing that the plantations make no of this sort will unify the senti­ concessions to the striking em­ Ori June 12, “Makino, Negoro, ments of all classes.”. ployes in the nature of increased Soga, Tasaka and Kawamura, the compensation.” five principal strike leaders, were On May 15, the strike leaders this morning arrested on warrants issued this statement at . a mass HSPA PROBAGANDA meeting: “The greatness of the planters and their control of finan­ On May 27, the Bulletin edi­ cial affairs should not be consider­ torialized that, "Su/tir plantation ed as a stumbling block in fight­ men will have to recognize- the im­ ing for our just rights' . . . Vic­ portance of public ppinion, and tory can be won as long as we tire necessity for supplying the stick together fearlessly and people with the facts . . . The day MR. MAKINO patiently. Let us, ■ however, respect of the transient laborer is passed. the laws of the land in which we The ■ conditions fire shaping them­ vigor and prejudice. Se6n through live ...” selves so that‘"there is a greater its columns, this is how the strike community of capital, and labor went: One speaker said: “They are interest . . . There will be more paying better wages' to other na­ Americanism and less feudalism On May 10, 1909, the Bulletin tionalities and are holding down in the sugar industry.” reported ' the Japanese said “this the wages of the Japanese be­ strike is brought about because cause they are Japanese. This is On May 28, evidently the Bulle­ the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ what I call unjust.” MR.- SOGA tin's stand bore fruit. E. D. Ten­ Assn, refused to acknowledge re­ On May 15, the Bulletin report­ ney, Castle and Cooke manager, ceipt of their letters.” In an edi­ ed. that “labor hustlers are. at there was Arthur McDuffie on the speaking- re Ewa plantation said: torial, the Bulletin said “this work in the city.” Strike breakers side, Harry Flint, and a big Ha­ “The Ewa labor statement for situation (must be resisted) to the were sent by train to the planta­ waiian plainclothes man as big MR. NEGORO last ditch.. . . the last to feel the tions. They scabbed for $1.50 a as a. house.” . r ' April showS'-the average earnings for that' month were $23.16 for pinch will be the capitalist.” day and were paid on the train By May 22, some 3,000'striker^ charging them with conspiracy On May 11, Castle and Cooke when homeward bound at night. each 26 days-labor performed . . . were being cared for by the Japa­ On April 30, there were 2,075 Ja­ and being disorderly persons,” the and Alexander and Baldwin were HRT ran' special street cars from nese Higher Wage Assn, in Jlono- Bulletin reported. Frederick Ma­ confident the strike, which start­ Kalihi and Waikiki to handle the panese on thb payroll. Of this lulu. The four leading Japanese number, 291 were working at the kino, a drug store operator who ed at Oahu plantation (Aiea), scabs. hotels were full and many strikers later published tire Hawaii Hechi, would not spread. The Bulletin $18.00 rate.”' /' - r:. SCABBING “GREAT JOY” lived in private homes. The as­ was clapped ifi jail. The ' High called the strikers “misguided sociation bought 2,500 bags of rice, On May 29, Yasutaro Soga, edi­ Sheriff blasted open his private workmen, who are being cheated The Bulletin also said that “the plus “several hundred tubs of tor of the Nippu Jiji, and a lead­ safe and seized "papers and docu­ and made the tools of selfish agi­ plantations are not opposed to a soy." Some of it was donated by er of the Higher!'Wage Assn., was ments.” The others were released tators.” general readjustment of the wage merchants. The strikers had $30,- indicted on i/i,, “disorderly. person” on bonds. On May 12, the Japanese work­ system, but not one step will be 000 in reserve. Japanese’ doctors charge for “piijilishing certain in­ , MORE NEXT WEEK PAGE 4 HONOLULU RECORD MAY 15, 1958 City, T.H. Moving STRIKERS7 HARVEST FROM THE MOUNTAIN iiiiHiiiiieiiiiiiininuiiiiu^niiiiiiwiiiiiioi^ To Train Elevator Inspectors-At Last Sport Shorts § from page 1 § these many years. The city’s chief building .inspec­ tor, Edward Fung, agrees that the city’s elevator inspector, Daniel Martin, is not specially trained NOT SO LONG AGO, baseball players in the local majors lasted for the job, but does it in addi­ well beyond the age of 30 and weren’t viewed as “old men” at 28 and tion to his duties as an electrical 29 as they are today. What changed? A couple of old ballplayers say inspector. He also agrees that in­ it was the times, the customs and even the economics, and maybe the specting elevators should be a order should be reversed. The days when Liberty House, Castle & highly specialized job. ' Cooke and other big firms used to support baseball teams and give the players jobs are well in the past, and in some ways* that s probably “We have asked the city'for a just as well. But it’s also a fairly sound reason why ballplayers, as they special elevator man ’again and grow older, have to give more time and attention to bringing home the again,” he says, “but we have bacon and less to their avocation, pleasant though it may be. never got one.” There are undoubtedly other factors, one of the more obvious being OLD ELEVATORS PLENTIFUL the lack of wide interest in local -baseball as' compared with a few years ago. We’ll have tnore on this later, and if you have any ideas, Meanwhile, inspectors in Ebert’s we’d be glad to hear or read them. office report antique, rickety and outdated elevators in many build­ ☆ ☆ ☆ ings of the city bearing the city’s CAN YOU IMAGINE two golfing aces on two consecutive holes. certificate of approval — certifi­ Clayton- Henry did it on the third and fourth, holes on the Sunset Hills cates which cost the buildings’ course at Chico, Calif., a couple of weeks ago. owners at present $5 per year. Just why they should cost any­ ☆ ☆ ☆ WITHIN SHOUTING distance of the timberline on the upper slopes DOWN IN TEXAS, a couple of schools recently tried out a theory thing at all is something of a mys- to shorten the time of a game of baseball, maybe speed it up and maybe tery, and why the city proposes'-to of Mauna Loa, where the cold wind bites into the flesh, wild pigs make improve the game. They were the University, of Houston and Sam Hous­ raise the fees is a similar mystery. their home. Jeeps take Unit 2, Pahala, hunters a long distance up the ton State and they played like this — two outs to an inning, two strikes The inspector is paid a salary by mountain side from the main highway. When the road ends, hunters the taxpayers to do- the job, yet were out and three balls got a walk. The longest half-inning was four begin walking in the shivering cold, quiet environment and up into minutes, and the University of Houston won both games. Then every­ a fee is charged of taxpayers when body decided the old way of baseball was better, according to Sports he actually does it. the lung-punishing' altitude. With their hunting dogs they Camp and “I guess it is tradition” says hunt wild pigs for the striking families’ food table. Hunting is hard Illustrated. Fung. "There are fees for inspec­ ☆ ☆ ☆ tion of plumbing and electricity work and it is picket duty for the hunting committee. Here are Noboru JOE BROWN, as you know, successfully defended his lightweight and elevators. I guess it’s a way Nakamoto (left) and Taka Fukunaga, two of Unit 2’s hunters with pigs title against Ralph Dupas in Houston last week, winning by a TKO of raising revenue.” their crew brought in. —Photo by Buck Nishiguchi in the 8th round. But you probably didn’t know that Rep. F. E. Hebert But the city’s elevator inspector (Dem.-La.) predicted the winner on the floor of the lower house of isn’t always anxious’ to make in­ Congress three weeks earlier. The real winner, Rep. Herbert told his spections. Some months ago when colleagues, would be the International Boxing Club. An old sports­ an overloaded elevator at the Ad­ Union Set to Guard writer, Rep. Hebert told how Dupas’ manager, Whitey Esnault, had traded vertiser building fell a short dis­ Old Relics Among a big percentage of his one-third to the IBC for a title shot. And Cham­ tance, he was called and he re­ Sugar Fields; Three pion Joe Brown is managed by an IBC “pet,” Lou Viscusi, Rep. Hebert plied that’ he didn’t want to in­ added, drawing a picture of boxing’s dirty business that should have spect. Elevators Bared impressed the congressmen-. Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson Mediators on Job is the only champion not under control of the IBC, the Louisiana Dem­ PAST WORKING HOURS ocrat reminded, and asked, who’s he fought lately? In Feb., 1957 News that the ILWU has put Fung, explains, “It was,jjast his pickets on “security police” duty ☆ ☆ ☆ working • hours and he lives at More than a year ago, the REC­ Kailua.” at all sugar plantations brought a WHETHER IT WAS SPORT or entertainment might be question­ ORD ran a story indicating how hot rejoinder Wednesday from able, but anyhow, the office girls at the TLWU building took off from The official attitude on eleva­ recent the Interest of the city in tors changed at City Hall in Jan­ elevators is today. In the Feb. 14, Philip E. Maxwell, chairman of behind their typewriters for the second time in three weeks and went the HSPA negotiating committee. out to play softball against plantation women and got beat for the uary of this year when W. E. 1957 issue, the RECORD report­ Melarkey, an electrical engineer, ed on a survey the Territory was second time in a row. This time the place was Waialua- and the score Although an industry spokes­ only 7-5. A couple of weeks ago, they played at Waipahu and lost by went to work In the building de­ making of Honolulu elevators. It partment on a contract basis. found: man earlier had apparently ap­ some astronomical score. Something else was added at Waialua after proved the Idea, Maxwell repudiat­ the game when the office girls had a couple of tries at a tug-of-war Melarkey set up an “Informal Ele­ against Waialua and lost those even more decisively than the ball vator Code Group” which includ­ • Two elevators at American ed that statement Wednesday, game. Ewa’s’ the next stop on the tour. ed Territorial safety men, insur­ Factors that date from 1899. saying he considered the proposal ance men and city inspectors, and an insulting suggestion against the ☆ ☆. ☆ which has held a number of dis­ • Three elevators at the Alex­ employers. . WHEN DR. TOMMY CHANG was appointed to the chairmanship cussions in the subject. ander Young Hotel dating from of the Territorial Boxing Commission, it marked the end of the first The ’$16 and $15 fees weren’t 1905. „ The purpose of the proposal had period in a good many years when the chair had been held by a Demo­ discussed, the Territorial men. say, • An elevator at Aloha Tower reportedly been to halt any ef­ crat. But that was Adrian DeMello who had been appointed as a Repub­ -but somehow they are reported in forts at sabotage in the sugar lican and then changed to run as a Democrat in the coming election. dating from 1925, subjected to an April 1 release as being the very heavy use. fields. The last Democratic chairman before that seems to have been Donovan result of thinking of the group. Flint, though Art Stagbar has often been acting chairman in the ab­ The Territorial men aren’t think­ • Seven elevators at T. H. Davies Meanwhile, following a request sence of some chairman or other, and he’s a Democrat. ing that way at all. They have an dating from 1920. by the union for Federal media­ amendment all ready to put into tion,- a three-man team of media­ the safety code that applies all • One at the Blaisdell Hotel dat­ tors arrived Wednesday. It was over the Territory, and it pro­ ing from 1912, which figured in comprised of Arthur C. Viat, head TO THE EDITOR vides for the certifying of elevator an accident. of the West Coast office of the inspectors, especially among in­ • Two at Mclnerny’s dating mediation service, and Commis­ surance inspectors. from 1916’and 1917.. sioners George Hillenbrand and Editor, Honolulu Record: the Triumph of Communism" is Some of these, says Ebert, have Earl Ruddy, all three of whom With no "chips in the game” that the Employers Council do already attended a special eleva­ • One at the Star-Bulletin dat- have had mediating experience in will the Employers Council ques­ nothing to fulfill (according to tor school. ing from 1915. the Territory. tion the Veracity and Integrity of Bishop Sheen, “Our Unfulfilled When the amendment is in ef­ Noting that intervention had Mr. Roy E. Brown who on Nov. Christian Duties").-I wonder if fect, and it’s expected to be in • One at Fisher Corporation 24, 1957 said: “A lot of Americans .-been sought by the union, -the Governor Quinn would- call the effect July ’ 1. the Territory will' dating from 1912. HSPA announced that it would do work now about 27% hours of foregoing; "Creeping (Commu­ test and certify anyone who passes The survey found some elevators their 40 hour work week to pro­ coopera te with mediation efforts, nism) Socialism?” Is that a good its tests. The insurance man will with no dates at all. It also found but reiterated its statement that vide food, clothing, housing, etc., question? presumably inspect elevators in­ that many, of the outdated eleva­ for themselves and their families. it would not, go abov’e its latest Imua, to which the Big Five sured by their companies and in tors were equipped with doors' no so-called 15-Sent offer. “The rest of the work week—a companies dole out huge sustain­ which their ’ companies have a longer considered safe by manu­ little over 1% days or 12% hours ing funds, has a slogan: "All that Likewiise, Jabk Hall, ILWU re­ monetary interest, and there would facturers. gional director, said the union.will goes .to taxes to pay the cost of is necessary for the triumph of be no regson for a charge. government.” Mr. Brown shows Communism is that good men do not relax its demand for a 25- “I will not inspect elevators,” cent hourly increase, but added, a chart: “Taxes 12% hrs., Transp. nothing.” says Ebert. "I don’t know enough heard about the , Territory’s plan 3% hrs., Food 8% hrs., Clothing The Big 5 and the Employers before. .“We will cooperate to the fullest about them. But . the inspectors we extent with the mediators.” 3 hrs., Med. Pers.- Care 2 hrs., Council, which represents the big certify will.” "Why don't they tell us these Recreation 1% hrs., Housing 7 hrs. interests, put up the boogy of things?” he asks. all others 2 hrs.” total 40 hrs. Ac­ communism which they say tackles DONE OFTEN BEFORE Another . problem that faces cording to Mr. Brown's chart: A unhealthy social conditions in its Inouye in-connection with elevators sugar worker’s 8*4 hdurs for Food effort to expand its influence, The idea of getting elevators in­ is the matter of testing operators. KAHUKU at $1.12 per hour — is only $9.24 while the Employers Council ■ and spected by the insurance compa­ At present, ■ anyone applying for a per week (7 Eating Days) or $1.32 the Big 5 team are not doing any­ nies most interested in their safe­ license to operate an elevator 1 ■ S from page 1 8 per day for food for his wife, 3 thing to positively Combat Com­ ty is new here, but not elsewhere, must come to City Hall and be children and himself. A family of munism. The positive way to com­ Ebert says. tested by Bill Miller, veteran quarter, with the owner of the 5 then has 26% cents per day per bat Communism is to eliminate "They have done it in New York operator of .the elevator at the vehicles applying for and obtain­ person 'or 9 cents per person per the exploitation of workers and to and California and 'Wisconsin ewa end of City Hall. But Miller ing rebates. Meal. If Mr. Brown’s chart and pay the workers a decent sub­ where I come from and in other will retire at the end of June, hav­ The application of Kahuku the foregoing is correct then the sistence wage, which is all that states for years,” he says. ing passed the mandatory retire­ Plantation for the $2,634.15 rebate Stock Holders should now start the workers are asking for. ■ As for Ralph Inouye, head of ment age of 70,' and the city will was signed by J. T. Waterhouse, examining their conscience. Be­ YObrs Respectfully the city’s building department, he’s have to train a new teacher and treasurer of the plantation com­ cause “All that is necessary for WM. H. CROZIER, JR. , a little irritated that he hasn’t tester. pany. gllHHIIIIIH«IIIIIIIIIIIIIH Through A Woman's [yes | Gadabout f Budgets In Trouble ■iiiniiiiiiiKiiiiiiiiniiHiiiiiiniiw By Amy Clarke * What happens to the budget then?

OUT IN THE SMALLER Koko linghams figure to do the dredging An important argument is going on between in­ Financial experts- say that even a $12,000 house may be beyond the means of a family earning Head crater, where C-C Engineer and construction of Magic Islalnd, vestment companies and government officials on Kunimoto wants to put a new re­ itself, of course, and it must be $5,000 a year. (It’s been a long time1 since Oahu fuse incinerator, a large trench recalled that the original Dilling­ the Mainland. has^seen any $12,000 homes being built.) was recently filled and leveled off. ham idea was to use Ala Moana Not many people knew what it Park for hotels and apartments Should the credit restrictions on home loans be The more children a family has, the less money was doing there in the first place, and build the reef island for a loosened or tightened up? Should the minimum it can spend for housing. If the family overspends park. But now that Magic Island though for a long time people down payment figure be lowered again, or main­ on housing, either it must skimp on everything have been throwing Odds and ends is being proposed' as an hotel and else — leisure time activities, education, food, into it. Believe it or n°t, that apartment site, it doesn’t mean tained at its present level? clothing, savings, icar repairs and replacement — trench was to accomodate mass for a moment the first plan has or it must get on the borrowing treadmill and be burials which the military thought necessarily been abandoned. There The builders’ concern stems from' the fact that always in debt. would be necessary if and when is good reason to fear Ala Moana home-buying has taken a downward trend for the the Japanese made more and Park may be wiped out entirely first time since the end of the war. However, most homes being built are in- the heavier attacks, pfirhaps even by so far as the people of Oahu are $15,000—$20,000 class, and it is not merely because land, early in World War U. You concerned if they don’t keep alert The most recent surveys show that a larger . costs in general are going up. People want houses know, they may be filling the thing and guard' against every effort to group than formerly now prefer to rent rather with a “luxury” look. We have been so influenced • up too soon, until they find out encroach upon it. than own a home. This includes couples whose by advertising that we tend to look down on a the true extent of damage done children have grown up and left home, and also house that does not have jalousies, a patio, colored by the atomic testing. And if you ☆ ☆ ☆ young families with children who are not certain tile in the bathroom, stainless steel in the kitchen, think that’s a pessimistic and de­ - THERE’S ONE ANGLE to the enough about remaining in a community to buy. and all the other luxury features. featist crack to make, what about liquor commission’s turndown of those jokers who had the trench the GEM application that should' With the price of land and houses jumping al­ The;e items are beautiful to look at, but they dug in the first place? cause the commissioners some most monthly, many families hesitate for lack of can become painful burdens if your budget can­ satisfaction. They proved Sen. Bill sound expert advice. If they buy a house at today’s not bear the weight of them. - ☆ ☆ ☆ Heen can’t get every application inflated prices, will they find their mortgage is he tries for before the commission. greater than the value of the property, if there is I certainly do not want to be accused of trying - THE RESIGNATION OF JAMES an extended recession? to lower anybody’s standard of living. But a way DUNCAN, C-C Director of Traf­ When Heen appeared to argue of life that is based on unbalanced spending and fic Safety Education, was accepted for the GEM application, Bob Stewart, Stewart Pharmacies, head, More important, will they be able to carry on borrowing is inevitably going to bog down. Monday by the commission “with the high monthly payments over the 20-odd years regrets,” and it is our guess the argued his presence was unfair of the mortgdgc? 'If you have only a moderate income and a grow-, commission will feel even more use of political pressure. If so, it ing family,, it would seem best to pass up the regrets when it sets about trying appears the pressure didn’t work. All over the United States now, families are in alluring “package deals’’ and get a contractor to to fill his Job. Maybe it's time And by the way Sen. Herbert K. serious trouble because layoffs have cut off their build you a very simple house, solidly construct­ for somebody to make a study of H. Lee was up before the com­ monthly income. Unemployment compensation is ed, but without any frills that run costs up so fast. why a career employe like Dun­ mission Monday arguing for a re­ barely enough to cover food and daily necessities. can with 14 years of service on his tail license for a drug store in the Finance your own appliances or pay cash for job and 21 years of government middle of Kaiser’s Hawaiian Vil­ Many people face foreclosure on recently-pur­ them — don’t have them included in the mortgage. service in all should resign to seek lage. Let’s see how Sen. Lee makes chased homes unless the economic picture bright­ It may seem simpler to have the builder install outside employment. The tendency out. ens immediately. the range, refrigerator, dishwasher, etc. and pay is hitting the traffic safety' divi­ ☆ ☆ ☆ ’ a few more dollars a month, but this method is sion’s education department pret­ We can hardly call these unfortunate people much more costly. — ty hard right now, with Mrs. Mary ONE OF THE STRANGEST foolish, for if anything, the^over-buying of houses Sagawa being another who is fleecing charges we’Ve heard of in is even more widespread in Hawaii. For instance, if you financed $500 worth of ap­ leaving. Mrs. Sagawa has a con­ many a day didn't get made this pliances at a bank or credit union, the total in­ siderable period of service, too, and. week, presumably because the How many families take on a 25-year mortgage terest cost over 2 years might be only $60. she performs a job compiling data complaint was set straight/ Two on the basis of the fact that both husband and on traffic accidents that will take girls had made a deal to “strip” wife are working! With the combined income, they - But if you add the cost of these same appliances some special training to fill. The for some elderly male observers, believe they can pay $100 a month, plus main­ ■into your 25-year, 6 per cent mortgage, the in­ city is losing two valuable em­ according to the story. When the tenance and utilities without hardship. terests jumps to about $375. ployes in a division which, be­ appointed time came, the girls latedly; it has come to recognize as didn't show. So they were threat­ But the unforeseen must always be considered It is pleasant to have a beautiful, well-furnished Important. We've a notion it ened with a charge of fleecing If in long-term budgeting. There 9s always the pos­ house — but only if you can really afford it. woulldn’t happen if morale were they didn’t either kick back the sibility that one of the wage-earners must stop what it should be in the- division, money, or go through with their working, for a time or permanently. And who of us can, these days! though no -one is, throwing brick­ show on a second date. We under­ bats. stand the girls “made” a second ☆ ☆ ☆ .date, though somehow we can’t imagine the elderly gentlemen go­ NOTED JUDGE REPORTS EDMUND C. PAIK, one of' the ing through with making a com­ Each- Navy Ensign biggest bondsmen in the business plaint to recover a sum like $200. here, will be closing up shop short­ Suppose their wives found out. ly for a few months to scout Costs U.S. $27,872 Drug Addicts, Traffic Increase; around on the Mainland. He’s got ☆ ☆ his eye on some real estate proj­ Each Navy ensign produced at ects that would appear to be much THE FOCUS of news on Officer Annapolis cost U.S. taxpayers Problem Hits All Classes in U.S. better prospects even than a Cuskaden, dismissed recently from $27,872. cemetery in Rural Oahu. the department and appealing his The Navy gave this estimate in “The United States has more sellers of narcotics to persons un­ case, also brings focus on another testimony before a House ‘ appro­ narcotic 'addicts, both in total der 18 years of age shall be punish­ ☆ ☆ ☆ situation. Cuskaden suffers from priations sub-committee. numbers and in percentage of ed by. death, hi the discretion of an injured hip and he’s seeking a The dollar figure on a midship­ population, than any of the other the jury." j JOHNNY WILSON, the late disability retirement. That’s en­ man’s education was computed as countries in the Western world. mayo#-of Honolulu, is quoted in- a tirely incidental to his appeal case, Including his pay and allowances, The judge said that, in major recent ILWU publication giving but it should remind anyone of and instructional costs, mainte­ a slant on the Big Five. A protege the strange hazard cops face, in “In fact, the U.S. has more U.S. cities, arrests for narcotic nance, operations and services at drug addicts than all of the other violations had Increased from of Queen Liliuokalani, the mayor matters of compensation. To get the academy. told a Mainland newsman, “When his disability retirement, Cuska­ Western nations combined." 14,226 In 1954 to 16,621 In 1956. I look back and see a queen, be­ den (or any other cop) has to Most of them dealt with persons loved by her people, overthre^vn A notable authority on methods under 25 years of age. prove he received his ' injury in Miceli? H you thought Johnson of enforcing drug addiction laws for a two-cent increase in the line of duty, or during the eight . was a setup who turned the tables, price of sugar, I have lilttle rea­ hours he is directly on duty. But —Judge Henry Ellender Ellenbo- you might read a note from Ed­ gen of the court of common ap­ “The illicit traffic feeds on the son to trust their descendents." He's supposed to be on duty for die Muller,’s column Sunday truly fantastic profits which It 24 hours a day in that he’s on call peals, Allegheny County, Pa. — brings. Herdin purchased in the ☆ ☆ , ☆ in the S. F. Examiner. Muller made this statement in a recent all, the time. Any time he'sees an quotes Joey Giardello, the middle address on problems posed, by illicit markets of Europe or Asia DID YOU KNOW a man who's infraction, he’s supposed to go in­ weight contender, as saying Dave for $2,000 may bring as much as to action and make a pinch. Now narcotics. Other highlights from retired, on s' disability pension gave him- more trouble in the gym the Judge’s address follow: $600,000 when finally cut, packaged doesn’t have to pay income tax on suppose he’s driving along casually than Rory Calhoun did in the and sold in the U.S.,” he con­ during off-duty hours and sees it? Several oldtimers who didn't ring in their recent fight — which “Estimates of the number of tinued. know it found' out recently and a wild speeder. Suppope he takes Giardello won-. - out in a chase after the speeder drug addicts in the U.S. range all investigated to discover they have the way from a conservative 60,000 “As for marihuana, the profits substantial refunds coming, dat­ apd has a wreck, killing himself ☆ ☆ - ☆ are equally fantastic. Marihuana in the chase. No one knows he was to an outside figure of ope million. ing back a few years. THE LONE PICKET in Hono­ bought for between $10 and $15 on on duty, and he may even be con­ the Mexican market, retails, when sidered a "careless and heedless” lulu who marched in front of Ho­ "Narcotic addiction affects all ☆ ☆ ’Ar nolulu Jail in protesting the jad­ classes and all social groups. It rolled into cigarets, for about driver, himself, while his next-of- $j,200 at the price of $1.00 per DESPITE protestations to the kin do not get the benefits they ing of the Golden Rule crew didn't is so dangerous to the fabric of contrary by Vince Esposito and would If everybody had known he use red ink as reported in writing our society, and so productive of cigaref, 'The total illicit traffic is others connected with the Magic was on duty. Certainly there’s on his picket card, "Is 4here No, crime, that on Nov. 27, 1054, Pres­ estimated to be about $600 million Island project, the strong suspicion nothing fair about a setup like American Golden Rule?” He used ident Eisenhower formed an In­ annually.” persists in some quarters that that. fingernail polish, whlch"was quick­ terdepartmental Committee on- Henry J. Kaiser will be cut into ly -available for his spontaneous Narcotics. The judge said that “as in the the pie sooner or later to do the ☆ ☆ ☆ • action. case of adults, 90 to 93 per cent big developing Job of the tourist REMEMBER DAVE JOHNSON, H. H. Hedlund, the lone picket, “The spread of narcotic addic­ of juvenile addicts are addicted facilities to be put on the island, the lad who came from the Coast went to . the Iwilel jail directly tion among our youth has been to heroin.” He said that “all au­ itself, and maybe in Ala Moana to cop a decision from Stan Har-. from a meeting of Democratic- considered such a danger that the thorities agree that drug addicts Park, if that area can be wangled rington right after Harrington Party’s organization of district U.S. Congress ip the Narcotic become criminals and cause much from the parks board. The Dil­ lost his first pro fight to Joe councils. Control Act of 1956 provided that crime.” . PAGE 6 HONOLULU REOORD SECRECY UNDER EISENHOWER 1111111^1^110111111111111^^^^^^^^^^ Down Movie Solons Force Facts on Burning of In Our Dailies Lane Official Report on Farm Slump HiiniiiiiiiiiniiniiHiiaaiiH Vigilance by Congressmen has 20.4 million — an unprecedented Wlllllllllllllllllllllllll defeated a book-burning attempt drop. “BROTHERS'KARAMAZOV” is by the Department of Agriculture GOVERNOR QUINN was told alleged that the trustees of the a masterpiece fashioned by Holly­ to suppress facts' oh why U.S. The reasons for this huge flight (so he said at the time) by the Farrington' estate (Betty, Riley H. wood from Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s farmers are giving up. from the farms, Rep. Reuss said, White House to “humanize” his Allen and Paul L. McHree) are classic novel of Sex and Salvation were revealed by the farmers’ administration when he was “im­ “effecting fundamental changes in in the Czarist Russia of the 1870’s. The burning was ordered by comments which were in the posed” (to use another of the gov­ the S-B corporation.” They are the main themes that right-hand men of ISecretary of burned report. He read some of ernor’s words re his appointment) As an example, Mrs. Whittemore this two and one-half hour movie Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. them to the House. The following on the Territory. His immediate asserted that the Star-Bull’s hammers home in its analysis of This is how it happened: are samples: reaction to the topside order was board of directors, said to be domi­ prolifigacy and despair, divine law, to warble Irish songs and wriggle nated by the J?arrington estate passion in all its formp and, final­ Every year, the department pub­ “More and more farmers in our in Samoan dances on the local trustees, in January set Betty’s ly, a macabre patricide. lishes a report which tells how locality are moving away because glad-hand circuit. annual salary at $18,000 but in much farm population has in­ they can’t make a living for their April increased it to $21,000. A nice Richard Brooks directs his own creased or decreased and includes families. The small-and-medium- Amateur songs and dances are pay raise in anybody's book — screenplay. comments from farmers right sized farmer is a dead duck.” O.K. but they can be overdone but not a realistic way of dealing across the country. . especially when the islands are with today’s inflation. The brothers are the vain army “I have before me two dozen gripped by what the dailies call officer (Yul Brynner), the in­ Two months ago, the report for auction notices of farms selling an “economic cyclette.” ☆ ☆ ☆ trospective atheist-writer (Rich­ 1957 was printed. Then it leaked out. Forced auction sales have ard Basehart), the gentle semi- out that Don Paarlberg, an as­ have been terrific.” If our amateur aspirant wants THE DAILIES have been edi­ ■ narian (William Shatner), and the sistant to Benson, had ordered ail to win more than glad-hands^ torially silent about the Liquor bad seed, the illegitimate half­ copies of the report to be burned, Rep. Reuss said that “reading and contribute to the economic Commission's concern over the brother (Albert Salmi) of the and a new report prepared and of the burned portion of the re­ well-being of the mass of voters, sale of intoxicating liquors to teen­ three brothers. Their lives are tor­ made public. That was done. port — of the ever-greater con­ why doesn’t he get behind the Ha­ agers by retailers and dispensers. mented by their lustful father (Lee solidation by the big corporate­ waiian Supermarket Assn, and its Their “thunders of silence” treat­ J. Cobb) — he fathered the This censorship aroused Rep. L. type farmers — ’offers a clue as drive to import groceries via an ment of this grave community brothers by different women — in H. Fountain (Dem. N.C.), chair­ to why it was burned.” independent shipping setup? problem is prompted, of course, by challenging and absorbing^ways. man of the House Government the large income 'the-dailies get Operations Subcommittee. He ask­ Later, Rep. Reuss added another This move which encourages from booze advertising. Cobb (who played the psychia­ ed for a copy of the burned re­ chapter to this amazing story. He. competition will lower costs to While they publish such adver­ trist in “Three Faces of Eve”) port, but the Agriculture Depart­ pointed out that the 125 farmers’ local consumers who are burdened tising, they can’t very well bite a dominates and walks away with ment insisted all had been burned. comments (which were burned) today with the highest cost of liv­ hand that helps feed them so con­ the movie as he taunts, tantalizes Fountain got a copy by putting were selected by Agriculture Dept, ing under the U.S. flag. sistently. and frustrates his sons with Paarlberg on the subcommittee’s officials from 2,700 comments. He violence, despair and apathy. witness stand. asked to see the complete file. ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ The old scoundrel roars: “My field of battle is the bed, and Rep. Henry S. Reuss (Dem. “Tile acting secretary said I THE GOP-LINE DAILIES are IF THE PERIL OF WAR is as eventually I will die there.” But he Wis.) compared the original and real as the dallies allege, why may examine the comments but making the most of the antago­ doesn’t. He’s done to death by a substitute reports and told the must keep them confidential. nism to Vice President Nixon in don’t they spark a drive against' poker in the hands of one of Iris House these facts: public complacency toward civil That is, mot disclose them to the Latin America. Its part of the sons. public,” said Rep. Reuss. deliberate buildup of Tricky Dicky defense tests? Which one? The exciting who- When a simulated H-bomb at­ Of the 19 pages in the original . “In effect, the department ask­ for the 1960 presidential race, just dun-it angle isn’t answered un­ report, 15 were omitted from the ed me to join its organization for as they built up Ike as a moral tack on Oahu was held May 7, til the agonized aftermath at the civil defense authorities found new one. The four remaining promotion of secrecy and suppres­ crusader in 1952. absorbing movie’s end. pages showed that, during the sion of farmers’ opinions. I must that most civilians, the Star-Bull There are some awesome se­ past year, the number of people on reported, were “immune to air reject the invitation to member­ They are tailor-making Nixon, quences; Black bears guzzling vod­ farms ipll from 22.3 million to ship in such a club.” as the GOP's young knight in ar­ raid siren warnings, and because ka with patrons ' Th gambling mor — with the Stars and Stripes of. this much-confusion is'foreseen taverns; skating parties in valleys painted on said armor. They think in case of a real raid” and that of the vast hinterland;' a Russian THEY DON'T WANT WAR the idea’s a natural. people “could not remember spe­ Orthodox wake; distorted views Once upon a time, those Latin cific civil defense orders for eva­ of lunacy through cracked glass; American demonstrations would cuating.” and orgiastic scenes which make have caused U.S. gunboats to steam amateurs of the Romans. Yank Learns What Russians Think upon the scene. Today U.S. troops ☆ ☆ ☆ "Brothers” is many things on are flown to the vicinity and Wash­ several levels. It is like a wide­ ington says‘their services are avail­ KAMAA1NAS DWELT upon Of Their Own Country and the U.S. nostalgic memories of the wide- screen river flowing across the able for policing assignments in bosom of Mother Russia and as these foreign countries. open manufacture of oke here dur­ "The vast majority of Soviet Unlike 'Stalin, they said,, he gets ing prohibition days when the it flows it laps articulately, with Instead of being able to exploit infinite detail and compassion, at citizens is not greatly Interested around among them and knows the idea of “goodwill ambassador,” Star-Bull May 9 reported that in world domination—certainly them and their problems . ; . . Walter P. King, former federal the liVes within the scope of its not in achieving it by force—and Nixon has been given a taste of flow. international political reactions, prohibition administrator for Ha- there Is a good possibility the “Most Russians I met insisted wai, had arrived on a visit. The dialog of the grim narrative that Khrushchev was really for 1958 style. If he goes to Europe is bawdy and earthy, like ’‘Peyton Russian people ’will gradually ir- after this Latin American fiasco, The Star-Bull, after a flattering fluence their Government in a peace and for Improved relations reference to King’s' work, said, Place’1 and "Hot Summer” rolled more ‘live and let live’ direction." with the West. On this there was war-weary European students may into one — and then some.—M.M. practically no dissent . ... give him doses of more of 'the “There was relatively little boot­ This Is a conclusion reached by legging here.” That’s when ka- “Nearly every one mentioned the same. ☆ ☆ George ,S. Franklin Jr., who visit­ maainas smiled broadly —- and re­ ed the Soviet Union for 30 days, new freedom from fear—although called the wondrous oke era. they did not ball it that. A stu-. ☆ ☆ ☆ MOVIE PRODUCTION is rapid­ In a special article for the New York Times. He is executive di­ dent, with whom I spent a large THE SAME DAILIES are play­ ☆ ☆ ☆ ly expanding in China. Current­ part of three days, told me he ■ ly there are six studios operat­ rector of the Council on Foreign ing Sown the prediction of Paul Relations. Franklin, who speaks would not have dared to be seen ,M. Butler, Democratic national SPEAKING OF intoxicating ing in Peiping and Shanghai. They Russian, says:' with an American so freely under chairman, that President Eisen­ liquors, the Honolulu postmaster expect to produce 100 features this the old regime . . . . year. "I was permitted to travel with­ “On foreign policy, there was hower will resign after the con­ listed in the Evening Bulletin of out an accompanying guide. This gressional elections this year. July 9, 1909, a list of articles China also produces a' wide repeated reference to our bases variety of documentaries which gave me an opportunity to meet surrounding. the Soviet Union, our Butler says that the Big Busi­ which, he said, were “positively people at random—all kinds of ness interests; which financed the prohibited hr the mails.” The list: are dialected for screening in re­ espousal of German rearmament mote areas. Variety, the N.Y. trade people—and to talk to them freely ant> our non-recognition of -com­ buildup of Ike in 1952, are pouring "Intoxicating liquors (ardent, ■and informally." the pressure on Ike to step down vinous, spiritous or malt), cocaine paper, estimates that there are munist China—toward wihich the and turn over the White House to or deriatives thereof, poisons, ex­ 9,168 regular and ambulant thea­ Franklin visited 10 cities, from Russians seem to have a genuine Nixon so that he’ll be in the sad­ plosive or inflammable articles, live ters in China with attendances Leningrad in: the north to Tiflis brotherly pride. dle for 1960. That would be a or dead (and not stuffed) animals mounting to well over one bil­ In the south, and from Kiev In “Tire Russians I talked to were shoo-in, the GOP money bags and reptiles, guano or any article lion annually. the west to Alma Ata, only ^00 also keenlyNnterested in U.S. do­ exhaling a bad odor, must not un­ miles from the China border, in mestic questions, particularly in think, for the bankers and their the east. Following are extracts. industrial cronies who have reap­ der any circumstance be admitted ☆ ☆ the standard of living of the to the mails.” from his article: average worker , . . A Moscow ed record profits under Ike’s ad­ NOW. THAT MORE and more “On a vast number of questions school teacher said: ‘Well, you ministration. . movies, are being photographed on these people (and I am talking, were already an industrial nation But would it? U.S. voters aren't real Mainland and overseas loca- only of the people, not of. their In 1917 when we were just begin­ for Nixon as they were for Ike. "I'm Being Robbed!" 'tions, the decreas’nq demand for Government), have much the same ning and, of course, your produc­ Hollywood studio space, is caus­ human reactions as we do. Though tive capacity was not ruined in ☆ ☆ ☆ ing the big producing companies it is impossible to give a blanket the war as ours was’ ...... A talking burglar alarm that ' io sell many of their Hollywood characterization to any people, the "The Russian" people are, in my THE STAR-BULL DOESN’T calls the police for help in a loud acres. Russians as a whole seemed to me opinion, not only against war, but practice what it preaches. In its and clear voice and directs them 20th-Century Fox has sold 176 warm, friendly and easy to get ,when they meet an American the editorials on the current recession, to the crime’s scene is being acres of its 284-acre site on which along with. question most of them want an­ it presses the Eisenhower line of marketed by Protecto Device Co. a house and office building center "They are' not, as often charged, swered more than any other is: holding the line on wages, yet its of New,York. Price: $125. will be built. Universal-Interna­ a strange people who feel differ­ " ‘How do Americans feel about president, Betty Farrington, last When the alarm is tripped by tional is about to Sell 400-acres ently about human life and'human war?’ month was given a $3,000 pay opening a door or window, break­ for a housing development. War­ sufferings. "And they are visibly relieved— raise. ing display glass, tampering with ner Brothers has been approach­ “The great majority of the peo­ and Inclined to believe it—when This revelation was made in a safe or cashbox, etc., the electrical ed to sell its 2,775-acre ranch ple are fairly content with the told that the American people are representation to the Territorial stool pigeon cuts loose with tape- wnere .it used to shoot big out- present Government .... They against war, too. .... Supreme Court by Mrs. Frances recorded blasts of a police whistle ' aoor scenes, and M-G-M is con­ believe that Khrushchev is really "Again and again, these people Farrington Whittemore (a sister and cries of distress that can be sidering selling its 63-acre back Interested in the people and wants emphasized their horror of another of the late Joe Farrington) who heard two blocks away. lot. to improve their living standards. war.” STAR-BULLETIN COLUMNIST TALKS MAY 15, 1958 HONOLULU RECORD PAGE 7 CITY ATTORNEY CHUNG § from page 1 § plaining that he pulls no special Doris Fleeson Says Economy ciates have leased other areas strings ■ at City Hall. He, like from the Lum estate and the Planning Engineer Louis, denied * that the latter had any associa­ parcels include five-and-a-half acres near lolani School on Date tion with Chung in his real estate St.; an area by the American- developments! Depends on War, Not Peace Chinese Club on Kapiolani Blvd.; Louis said that he is in partner­ and an area fronting Kapiolani ship with .Chung, and Attorney Blvd, near Kaimuki High School. William Chee, in Bethel Co., Ltd., The RECORD here scoops the Star-Bulletin which a withdrawal of. defense expendi­ WANTS BIGGEB LOTS which owns a building near the runs Doris Fleeson’s column prominently on its edi­ tures. Honolulu police station. State The city attorney told this week­ Realty Co., which is handling the torial page. Here is Doris Fleeson speaking out on the "It is only possible to conclude ly that the parcels near lolani than no one in the government, sale of H. • T. Hayashi’s houses in Eisenhower administration, a view which the Star- School and American-Chinese Manoa, is located in the build­ Bulletin would blue pencil with a swift X over her copy. including the Congress, has either Olub were sub-divided into small confidence of peace or any sincere ing. The daily has not run what the columnist said, which lots for hotel-apartment develop­ Chung said that in his sub­ belief that any profound change ment in the 1940’s. His firm has ip the'situation between the U.S. leases, he has a provision that says is newsworthy |n these times. applied to the city planning com­ subleasees shall not ask for any and the Soviet Union will take mission for a change in the sub­ zoning or other variances of the Doris Fleeson, a nationally- “Respect for each other’s mur­ place in the foreseeable future. division plans in 'order to create syndicated columnist who is fea­ derous potential may keep both city. Being a city official, he said, bigger lots. He said that the off- he doesn’t want any request of tured by the Honolulu Star-Bulle­ of us (the U.S. and the Soviet “This becomes even clearer • street parking quirement calls tin, has to trim her views to suit Union) in a state of nonwar. It this sort to come up -before city when we look back to the efforts for bigger lots. * ' authorities, for there might be in­ the bias of her subscribing papers would take more than respect; it made during World War II to For example, he said, the five- — particularly those which cover would require trust to achieve ference that he is in" a position to cushion the shock to the economy and-a-half-acre parcel by lolani exert his influence for the peti­ up the failures of the Eisenhower peace . . . which was expected when the war School was subdivided-into 32 administration. tioner. ended. You may remember that lots, with a road running through Some months, ago Chung came “The intimate collaboration Henry Wallace wrote a book, 60 it. .He has asked for the deletion in a speech before the annual which exists between the U.S. and under criticism. He. recommended Million Jobs, pronounced hope­ of a proposed master plan road that the city pay $33,000 in ap­ convention of the National Farm­ Western Germany, between France lessly Socialistic by many of those and dividing the area into six and Western Germany, would praisal fees to Y. T. Lum for work ers Union, Miss Fleeson did not who now feel that any words of lots, with five, one-acre lots and done at Waikiki. At that time have to consider editorial bias. Ex­ have seemed unthinkable a dozen caution about boom times are a one half-acre lot. He has asked Chung and associates were in the tracts from her speech follow: years ago. The friendship and gospel of gloom and doom . . . the planning commission to con­ mutual self-help which exists be­ process of leasing the Lum Yit sent to changing the subdivision Kee estate which includes the par­ “Today, we live in a world tween the U.S. and Japan today “The U.S. today is in fact total­ plan for the area near the Amer­ would have appeared totally un­ cels mentioned above. Chung was which, because media of commu­ ly unprepared for peace . . . ican-Chinese Club from lots °of criticized for giving big appraisal nication have multiplied so believable 15 years ago . . . 6,000 square feet to 20,000 square enormously, the opportunities for “It could be that the cost of jobs to Y. T. Lum, a principal fig­ propaganda have become infinite­ “There is a very real question, such temporizing will be high. Fat, feet. ure of the Lum family that owns Both these requests have not the estate. ly greater. carefully avoided on all sides in rich old nations, like fat, rich old been approved, although . they the Eisenhower administration and men. — and women — tend to Chung defended his position, de­ have been before the. planning claring that Lum was the best ap­ “The New York Times chief for some reason never mentioned overestimate their powers . . . body for three to four months, by the Democrats. That is whether praiser he knows of locally. In correspondent in Washington, The Soviet Sputniks surely deSr Chung said. James Reston, wrote recently: the economy of the U.S. could not troyed the myth that we are answer to board of supervisors Now, he said, “We intend to members who said the $33,000 fig­ ‘This administration is more in­ tolerate a genuinely peaceful necessarily ahead in everything withdraw the request;.” terested in the appearance of world situation. and that nature has a special in­ ure was too high, he said Lum’s, leadership than in leadership it­ “We are spending $45 billion a terest in the survival of Amer­ NO SPECIAL STRINGS appraisals stood up in court and self, more in the appearance of year on armaments . ... vastly' icans.” He mentioned the above in ex­ his work was reliable. power than in the reality of power greater than all the money spent on relief and pump-priming dur­ “Certainly no American govern­ ing all the administrations of ment has used the means and FDR. It is within shouting dis­ POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS tools of propaganda to quite the tance of the military budget for same degree as the present one. It a hot war . . . has for some time deeply troubled "There can be no question what­ B from page 1 § Quinn’s in Washington “to push and excited ‘— after drowning observers who see in it a denial ever that since the start of re­ Hawaiian legislation,” according Woolaway’s Republican talk with of tile processes on which a free armament program that the U.S. can," as against about 20 per cent to the newspapers. Now just what his strong voice that almost boom­ society must be based . . . economy has become more and use do you suppose he is there? ed as far as Kamehameha Ts more dependent on huge appro­ who felt themselves "definitely Democrat." But Craig interviewed What could he be there for except statue. Crozier, a Republican, said “Our real-danger is that we may priations for defense. Wo have to take credit for anything that’s that he accused and denounced be trapped in our - own propa­ actually seen the spectacle of the service personnel families and ap­ parently paid little attention to passed and rate a story or two Woolaway, the GOP braintrust, ganda inventions. It is bad enough • President saying that he looked in the GOP-minded dallies about for “double-crossIng” the secretary that the American people have so for their increase to cure the pres­ whether or not those interviewed were registered voters. It was felt how it took him to put it across? of Hawaii. little opportunity to distinguish ent recession ... Remember how Sam Kling tried between the real and the unreal. “It cannot be that the econ­ by some also that the method of determining houses to be “polled” to get in position to take the credit Crozier accused Woolaway of It is far more frightening that omists of. the administration are for what looked like the imminent Trying to force Turner to run for few of out leaders manage to es­ was something less than scientific, unaware of the dangers which will passage of statehood a few years delegate to Congress. cape the contagion of their own have to be faced in the economy if Craig’s’ people would cut a deck of cards (stripped of picture cards) ago, headtag a road show of local propaganda .... there comes a period in which a officials toward Washington? And He asked Woolaway, “Do you marked reduction in defense ex­ and ihterviejy the number indicat­ want Turner to lose his job?” He “It is perhaps the most remark­ ed. If the card were a four, for remember how angry the Farring­ penditures might be justified. Yet tons were at King for that one also told Woolaway that the’ Big able fact of our time that in the neither in the executive branch instance, they’d call at. every fourth house, or if it were 10, for years? Well, of course, the Five' supported and will support face of a universal desire for nor in the Congress controlled by Jack Burns and Turner doesn’t peace and hope for peace, that they’d call at every 10th house. Farringtons and Kings were all the Democrats has a single step Republicans, and Joe had helped have a chance. the best we find our leaders search­ been taken to soften the shock of But reporting a low proportion of ing fojjs a state not of peace but “definitely Republicans,” Craig’s get Sam the job. This time it’s Woolaway interrupted Crozier of nonwar. in a' fine position to claim credit if a Republican governor against a and asked, “Are you accusing me the GOP puts up a good show in Democratic delegate, and he pick- too?” • ed a good time for it — the period “Why is it that a state of non­ Magazines Refuse to the election. “Yes, you tool” boomed Crozier. war, with all its costs and all its just before -the Democratic con­ tensions and all its wastefulness Publish Liquor Ads ☆ ☆ vention here when Burns is sched­ Woolaway asked Crozier to and dangers seenis preferable to uled to return. prove it. Crozier replied that' In a state of peace? More than 200 nationally cir­ THERE’S' A STRANGE political the last election the Republican culated magazines, Including 17 note in the latest issue of- Sports ☆ ☆ ☆ Party on Oahu backed only Mayor with circulations over one million Illustrated signifying we know not Neal Blaisdell, Governor William what. Anyhow, it’s in an article A DOLLAR BILL is scotchtaped Quinn who-then was running fqr each, adhere to a policy Of refus­ to a cardboard, about 10 x 18 ing all alcoholic beverage adver­ about Doberman pinscher dogs the senate jmd Representative and tells how Seeing. Eye tried to inches, on the wall, of Secretary of Hebden Portous. Cuskaden Appeals tising. use Dobermans for guide dogs for Hawaii Farrant Turner’s office. Among those with more than the blind,- failed, and — but you Over and under the bill is a mes­ Turner who was listening to this Firing; Chief Liu one million circulation are: read it: sage-written by Arthur A. Woola- "exhange left his office in em­ Reader’s Digest, Saturday Eve­ “There Was one -blind newsdeal­ way — former territorial Republi­ barrassment and headed for his ning Post, This Week, Ladies’ er, thoug’h-, who refused to give can chairman and presently. its" secretary’s office. ■Home Jotirnal, National Geogra­ braintrust. The message from Woolaway said he was working May Be Witness phic, Good Housekeeping, Seven­ up his Doberman. It seems the newsdealer was not among Gov­ Woolaway says that the dollar is for Turner’s best interest. Crozier § from page 19 z teen, American Home, Parents, the first -contribution to Farrant - asked if forcing him tp run Better Homes and Gardens, Wo- ernor Dewey’s fans. Unfortunately for the governor, he often bought Turner's candidacy to delegate to/ against Burns only to .be'defeat­ of the outcome of his appeal. mqn’s Day, Mechanics and Scho­ his paper at this newsstand. When Congress. Woolaway’s name is ed—and subsequently not be re­ Cuskaden was dismissed follow­ lastic. printed on the card. appointed by Washington to his ing a scene at the police station he did, the dealer sicked the dog present job—is working for Turn­ when he was booked on suspicion on Dewey. He’d never had a guide In the presence of this mightly er’s best interest. of drunk driving, later dismissed. U.S.-Japan Trade dog' which responded so violently . dollar which some Republicans Woolaway then said Turner Remarks Cuskaden addressed to to Republicans and he wasn’t hope would move Turner to run, might be appointed governor. To Tarbell at that time constituted Japanese businessmen have or­ about to part with him.”' for delegate, some' frank Republi­ which Crozier said, if and when the basis for the charge of insub­ ganized a private commjttee to can talk took place last Saturday that happens, he would be the ordination upon which the dis­ promote trade relations between ☆ ☆ ☆ noon. first to support him. abled officer was dismissed. Po­ Japan and the U.S. Members of GOfV. BILL QUINN, in the eyes ☆ ☆ ' At that point Crozier pointed to lice Chief Liu is reported to have it are drawn from Japan’s Federa­ of some political observers, is to­ • Woolaway’s dollar scotchtaped to been present during a part of this tion of Economic Organizations, day pulling the same kind of polit­ AFTER WILLIE CROZIER came the cardboard on the wall and scene and it is expected he may be Chamber of Commerce and the ical trick on Del. Jack Burns that out of the secretary of Ha- ' declared, “I’ll put my support called as a witness at the appeal Trade Commission. A trade survey Sam King, when governor, pulled wall’s office where the GOP talk right ,up there to boost his gov­ hearing. group is to be sent to the U.S. on the late Del. Joe Farrington. took place, he was still agitated ernorship.” Big five and Wage fight Vengeance On Jim Dole Hawaiian longshoremen who have for BIG GOP PAYOFF By KOJI ARIYOSHI ii|C!ii|anna|ii|B|ii|«|ii|«l!'l«l»l»l»l«l"l"l»|B|"l"!UiammiuiB|ii|g|ii|B|ii|B|ii|B|ii,B|ii|a|ii|»|ii|«|iiiw a long time set the pace for the workers on tildiilaliilaliila!iilaliiTaiiilcriilaliilalnTBliiratiilHliilBlMBliilBliilBliil B|iilaliilBliirahitaTiitiriilBliilBri The shipping monopoly of Matson Navigation the wage front are now getting five cents (from page 1) Co. is being challenged. It appears that the Pacific less than their West Coast counterparts Far East Lines which Matson has been fighting to and in June this year they will get a two official body set up to regulate the construction industry, to eliminate irresponsible, fly-by-night operators. Whether keep out of West Coast-Hawaii shipping may cut cent boost in their hourly pay, thus clos­ deeply into Matson’s age-old privileged position. ing the differential gap to three cents. or not it wanted to pay $900 to a man because he’s an ardent Republican is another question. The big supermarkets which bring in the major West Coast longshoremen are now nego­ Bob Shaw’s juicy job and his quickly “earned” $150 supply of food on Oahu are behind PFEL which tiating for 16 cents aut they may well constitute land. The supermarkets have formed a hui and other areas of their contract. A wage in­ the most blatantly ill-advised. Imagine" the thoughts of announced that they will use PFEL cargo facilities, crease on the West Coast now applies hundreds of government workers all over the Territory who including the liner Leilani. PFEL will now make a automatically to wages of Hawaiian long­ waited through years of political stalling and legislative strong bid for Maritime Board approval. shoremen. fumbling to get a pay increase. Imagine the thoughts of REVOLT IN HAWAII The long discriminatory Mainland-Ha­ 13,700 sugar workers striking now for more than three This new move is a big blow to the Big Five’s months to raise a basic wage of $1.12 to $1.37 fighting their shipping firm. And this ougfit to teach the Big waii longshore wage differential will be Five a lesson. While the Big Five does not own wiped out in 1959. * way through a life of soup kitchens and picketlines ta win - a wage hike. Matson entirely, 43 per cent of the shipping com­ The Big Five-controlled dailies now write pany’s stock is voted in the Territory. And the v Imagine the thoughts of the contractors, themselves, Big Five must be upset now -because the revolt of longshore wage increases in routine ' especially the small operators who have to shave their bids against Matson’s methods has erupted here at manner, without bitter emotion. Since ne­ in competition to get jobs, and then cut all conceivable cor­ home. gotiations do not take place here as in ners to make a profit. Some months ago the supermarkets protested the past for Hawaiian longshoremen’s Recession? There’s no recession for the energetic poli­ Matson’s most recent request to the Maritime wages but on the West Coast for all ILWU tician who has a pull with the “right people.” Board for a freight rate hike, saying they would stevedores, the dailies and employer fronts The case of Bob Shaw illustrates perfectly the old, cyni­ be forced to raise commodity prices.'The food stores asked for a hearing. They didn’t get it. like IMUA aren’t shouting about “Reds” cal saying: “It’s not what you know, but who you know.” and “Communist plots.” Matson declared it was not making enough How the Big Five employers whipped vice president, resigned prior to money. And with the help of Washington offi­ the election and this matter was cialdom, where Matson spends money for good up hysteria in 1949 during longshore wage Nisei Take Over ■public relations — with money earned from charg­ negotiations here and during the strike is not reported by the' other officers to the membership at the meeting ing islanders high freight rates — the shipping now clearly apparent in the quiet environ­ where the election took place. company gob its demands, at the expense of the Japanese Chamber people of Hawaii. ment that has existed since the storm of Asato’s resignation stirred strong 1949. The employers said they couldn’t af­ feelings among many because they SPECIAL PINE RATE ford the 32 cents an hour demanded by Leadership Posts felt it came as a result of the age- old discrimination of an Okina­ This didn’t sit well with people who read news­ longshoremen, when they were paying 42 The Issei-led, faction-torn Ja­ papers. Last year Senator' Neuberger fought Mat­ panese Chamber of Commerce wan by other Japanese whose geo­ cents more per hour straight time for graphical background is the main son’s general cargo rate increase of 13.2 per cent elected an all-Nisei slate of offi­ while increasing pineapple shipping rate 6.9 per longshore work on the Mainland to ILWU cers and the new president, Ed­ islands of Japan. Asato is an dock workers. Okinawan. cent. The Oregon Senator said the pine rate was ward N. Yamasaki said his ac­ preferential, set by negotiations through Big Five’s ceptance of the top post would be The Hawaii Hochi was first to The ILWU dock workers here proposed draw community attention to the interlocking board of directors. Castle & Cooke, •justified if he could bring har­ Ltd., biggest Matson shareholder (18 per cent) arbitration and the employers, obviously mony and cooperation and erase slighting of Asato, who had been wanting to force a strike, declared arbitra­ approached by the nominating holds controlling interest of Hawaiian Pineapple the “misgivings that threaten to Co. tion was “Communistic.” destroy this organization.” committee to run for president, The new officers include both then told after he had accepted The Big Five argued that increasing the ship­ The employers wanted to take on the AJAs of Okinawan and Naichi the proposal, to forget the re­ quest. ping rate of pineapple would hurt Hawaii’s pine ILWU longshoremen in 1949, in the same .(main Japanese islands) origin. industry on the Mainland, since selling price must manner that they offered four cents be­ The chamber came through a The new Nisei officers are Ya­ be increased. Even after Senator Neuberger > ex­ fore the present -sugar strike, when the period when its "dominant ele­ masaki, president; Kenji Goto, posed the Matson-Big Five shenanigan of loading ments” comprising Issei leaders Robert P. Sato and Susumu Yo- demand was 25-cents across-the-board, higher freight rates on islanders by holding down came under lashing criticism for shlkami, vice presidents; Dr. pine rates, Matson did not request the Maritime and forced the present strike. their conduct of an election which Theodore T. Tomita, secretary; Board to up the pine rates. But the board was Hawaii’s sugar workers are. the highest Ignored the normal practice of Hideo Kawano, treasurer; and forced to boost pine rates. elevating a vice president to the Harold K. Kometani, Robert T. producing sugar workers in the world, thus presidency. Sasaki and Albert T. Teruya, au­ This bleeding heart concern of the Big Five for cost of producing sugar is lowest per ton Consequently, Sadao Asato, the ditors. Hawaii’s pineapple industry is as shallow as theiw- on Hawaiian plantations. The total wages dollar motive. They wouldn’t give a damn if the paid sugar workers in the bargaining unit pine industry fell to pieces—if they didn’t own it. went down from about $48 million a year Vengeance On Jim Dole DOLE’S EXPERIENCE 10 years ago to $37 million prior to the (Continued from right) “rate war” will be offered Isthmi­ Now, let’s back up this statement. strike. The employers are inaking money CPC for the first time in 1931. an-which had in a short preced­ —Remember back in 1931 when James'B. Dole, and their last annual reports make this Dole also had learned that U.S. ing period trebeled its service to the founder of Hawaiian Pineapple Co., was pres­ clear. coastwise ships that were not un­ Hawaii and agreed to cut pine ident and manager of the company and Castle shipping rate. & Cooke was eyeing the Iwilei operation with great Hawaii’s prosperity depends on the • der U.S. coastwise laws had of­ fered to haul Philippines pine for Hawaii’s Big Five never forgave interest? ’ ’ amount of money that is circulated. High­ CPC to Gulf and Atlantic Ports all Dole and the following year, dim­ —Remember the ’high shipping rate Matson er wages mean more money in circulation. the way from the Philippines for ing the nationwide depression, was charging for bringing in cargo to Hawaii and Hawaii’s longshoremen in this light have $10 a ton—the same rate Isthmian they didn’t turn their hand to help for moving’ cases of pineapple to Mainland ma.dd tremendous contributions to the agreed to haul Hapco pine from him, when Dole needed ’financing. markets? • Hawaii to the same market areas. Instead Castle & Cooke moved in economic health of the island community, All this brought to light the high and Atherton Richards became —Remember how in May 1931^Dole, negotiated and so have the sugar workers now strik­ rates charged by Matson for the new manager. . with Isthmian Steamship Co. to’'sHi'p'‘]’)ine at $4 ing for higher pay. bringing in consumer goods to After that, Matson neutralized a ton less than the $14 rate charged by Matson? Isthmian’s ’ competition. . With President George Sumner of American Hawaii, although this never be­ Hapco up to then was shipping pine on Matson came an issue. Hapco buying most of the cans ships to the West Coast, then transshipping to Factors and Alexander Budge of Castle & Dole’s successful move resulted produced by American Can Co.,— Gulf and Atlantic Ports through Panama Canal. Cooke who draw, $60,000 a year and more in Matson’s agitation of .West owned by U.S. Steel which owned Isthmian lines contracted for $10 a ton to carry in salary, exclusive of expense accounts, Coast big business interests for a Isthmian—Castle & Cooke nego­ pine to Gulf and AtlaTitic ports. • At that time tiated and became Isthmian’s know that 50 per cent of the sugar work­ fight. William P. Roth, president Hapco, Libby, McNeill & jLibby, California Pack­ of Matson, went to the East Coast agent here on Jan. 1, 1935. ing Corp., and Baldwin' Packers shipped about ers (7,479 out of 13,894) earn less than to confer with James A. Farrell, The present revolt of the ’su­ ' three-fourths of their annual packs to Gulf and $2,389.56 a year in hourly wages, before president of U.S. Steel Corp., permarkets recalls’’ the fight put Atlantic Ports. ■ .. taxes. The Heller Report says that $5,593 which owned Isthmian line. up by James Dole. Such aggres­ dole turned Down is necessary to maintain “commonly ac­ sive move for shipping competi­ NEVER FORGAVE DOLE tion helps the people of Hawaii — Hawaii’s Big Five which, fought for preferential cepted standards” for a family of four. Meantime, on the West Coast, for. two-thirds of the food and freight rate for pineapple last year blew their top Cost of living here is higher than on the a San Francisco Chamber of Com­ over 90 per cent of consumer items in 1931 and was out to,bust James B. Dole, al­ Mainland. merce official said it all depends are imported, mostly from the though Dole had performed • a public ■ service to ' Hawaii. . ‘ • A family earning $2,000 a. year spends on Roth’s message whether a Mainland. Continued at Right The Big Five leaders frothed with anger when about 70 per cent for food. For the health of the family and Kenneth B. Barnes, vice president and secretary overall economy—the sugar workers must win a substantial of the pineapple company, declared publicly that • the new, arrangement will result in cheaper pine- wage raise. ■ ' x , apple, better distribution of the commodity and Honolulu Record Publishing Co., Ltd. As far as the employers’ ability to pay, they have said an increase in demand. 811 Sheridan Street, Honolulu, T.H. in the past, as in 1949, that they will gO' broke, and the de­ Dole had. asked Matson for reduction of freight P1HONEJ6445 mands w.ere unreasonable. They used the same argument rate and had been ref used. Dole anticipated com­ Mainlalnd $5.00; Philippines $7.00 when Japanese and Filipino strikers demanded equal pay petition from Philippines pineapple produced by Oahu $5.00; other islands $6.00 airmail; on suga.r plantations with other workers of. different na­ KOJI ARIYOSHI—EDITOR tional background. Continued at Left