Do Star Ballroom Hostesses Get Raw Deal? s HONOLULU RCCORD fiMMOM Hawaii Needs Vol. 2, No. 51 | Y, 10 CENTS Thursday, July 20, 1950 Bare Britannica Mgr’s Bigotry Kauai Labor Dispute Bellflower' May Company Forced To Ad Reveals Bias Kekaha Needs "Superman”; Be Key To Tale Uaio" Against Unions, Longshoreman's Case National Groups Of Walter Berry If Richard Maluo, 57, longshore­ Demands 10 Do Work of 20 man, of -1471 Pele St., was not a By STAFF WRITER Of course, the management’s Who and where is Foy Bell- union man, he’d be facing life By JOHNSON CAIN . flower, age 34, onetime seaman, “Unemployed? You have no ex­ “Kekaha is out; that’s definite!” “efficiency experts” haven’t fig­ today with little prospect except cuse now unless you’re lazy!' Good, ured out yet just who they can height >5 ft. 10 inches, weight; that of. paying debts and earning That was the announcement fol­ 185 lbs.? pay for good men for permanent lowing a secret ballot among 85.5 get, short of Superman, to han- a living with a body which may work, 8 hours a day, 5 days a per cent of Kekaha plantation’s (more on page 7)- The name of Bellflower, hereto­ be permanently-disabled. week.” ■ more than 700 employes involved fore unpublicized in the many Because his: union, ILWU Lo­ That’s the lure put out by En­ in the so-called "wildcat” walk­ revelations of Walter Benry, un­ cal 136, pressed an action for,com­ cyclopedia Britannica, Inc., -last out. The announcement was made Is This Why Matson derworld figure serving b term in pensation which had been'denied week in a classified advertisement. following- a- majority “no ac­ Oahu- Prison, is one which may him by Castle & Cooke’s insurance but there are a number? of quali­ have much pertinence in the Berry: company, his hospital and medical ceptance” vote by members of the Dropped Airline Plan? fications. One is that you have bargaining unit Tuesday, July 18, case. It is the name thaf was in bills will all be paid and he will to be either haole or“J apanese" in answer to a “return to work on the seaman’s black' : book, Berry receive $35 a week indefinitely— Another is “non-union.”- ; From inside Matson comes complained hSd been taken from until the Workmen’s Compensa-_ ■ our terms or no arbitration” edict the- story of why the shipping Of -course, theEncyclopedia . handed_down by. assistant manager him, the RECORD has :. learned. tion Board has ruled otherwise, or ; Britannica doesn’t' put 'ita name a- company, after investing thou- Furthermore, it is the name of an until he has received, $7,500. , Ri. C. Williamson for Kekajia man­ 5 sands of dollars in a prospective agement. — - factual. person—not Berry—t h e Victory came tor Maluo last airline, abandoned the venture. RECORD has also learned. But w__ee_k_ _a_f_te_r W.... _M_._ _D_o_u_g_l_a_s_ of the Kekaha’s ■ workers “walked out” After it had gone to much ex­ the above statistics, known to be ' > Workmen’s Compensation Board Friday, July 14, following the ac- pense on the Mainland to ar- accurate fan .Bellflower, do not ap- . tion „of. 10 cane-hauling, truck \ < rapge. Jts_setup, says a man on . drivers in 'pfot&t: against a man-> ' the inside, Matson began getting scribed as 19 years of age, brunette man was represented by Attorney . agement "cut-back” and “speed- : ? queries from Congressmen about and of slender build. James. King, ILWU lawyer. a up”, program which transferred - the best . and. cheapest, ways of perm. wont. t nrs. wy.j.Myra Berry Can’t-Talk At .Lurline’s Dock : 10 of an original 20 drivers to.un- taking trips to Hawaii. Despite Report until noon .Rm. ■ designated departments, reducing the fact that some of the in­ Perhaps it was the story of Foy Maluo’s injury, judged presently the number of personnel'by half, quirers were men who figured to Bellfiloweir 'that Berry wanted to- to be partial paralysis of an arm ? but doing nothing toward lessen­ have influence with the Civil tell the RECORD. On Wednesday, ■'and a leg, occurred last Dec. 5, on ing the volume .of work normally Aeronautics Commission, the he called the RECORD office and a day the Lurline was- docking. performed by -the-original 20. Matson official in charge didn’t said he had new revelations he After working earlier in the day . Short of Superman catch wise that complimentary (more on page 5) at Piers 2 and 9, he was assigned trips were in order. - to help another longshoreman,' The "improved” system means Alfred Kaanehe, catch one of the to an advertisement like that— that the one driver now remain­ That was bad. But it was Lurline’s ■ six lines as they were it might queer sales among fam­ ing on the 11 p. m. to 7 a. m. night worse, says the insider, when Police Lose Again thrown by seamen to the docks to ilies who are neither hade nor shift must work an entirely unin­ the Democratic National Party be made fast. “Japanese*'and ft might'irritate terrupted eight-hour grind, eat hit Matson for a $50,000 cam­ His next job was to help hoist any of .the thousands , of .union. while driving (because there is no paign fund contribution in 1948 On A & B Charge the passenger gangplank to con­ . men who axe- interested , in buy- . time allowance for lunch), drive and got turned down. nect the second story of Her 11 ing books to help their children two trucks alternately all night, It was . no- mere: coincidence, with the boat deck of the Lurline, get an education.' connect and disconnect trailers the insider continued, that Mat- and it was while’working at this But the • address where appli- for both trucks at starting and son began to fold the air.opera­ By 'Move On'^op unloading points, and keep both . tion up after the national Dem­ (more on page 7) of them running without interrup­ ocratic victory. Stupidity’s div­ The Police Department lost tion in order to obtain the highest idends had become painfully . another case rjsing from 'the measure of “productivity.” obvious. “move on” policy Tuesday when Judge Joseph Akau acquitted Fe­ Manila Policy Returns Many Wives, lipe Cabradilla, 50, of assault and battery against police -Foot Patrol­ man Clarence Hurley. Students, Officials From U. S.-Aliate Civil Service Manual Said Delayed By The incident occurred at a Bere- The sudden return to the Phil­ carry out the austerity .program tania St. poolroom on the evening of the Philippine.government. - Price's Unauthorized $675 Boost of July 3, after Hurley ordered a ippines of military attaches, stu­ , He did not comment when asked number of men of Filipino extrac­ dents studying abroad on gov­ ’ about reports' that > Carlos Romulo, What was the motive of C-C civ­ technical staff, the RECORD has tion to move on. All but Cabradilla ernment-sponsored programs, and il’ service examiner Aubrey N. learned, and that request was for obeyed. After the order was. re-. secretary of foreign affairs, is Price in boosting a requisition to the correct amount, $300... But ’ peated, Cabradilla complied, step-.. wives and other dependents of planning, a shake-up of the.Philip­ the board of supervisors from $3b0 later, another request, without any ' ping ' into' the poolroom, und it is consulate staff members has start­ pines foreign service. to $975? authority from the commission, believed his:hesitation was a re- ed various reports and rumors in Locally, no changes are con­ the local Filipino community. • templated,- Mr. Alzate said. He Price is believed to have ex­ went to Mr. Keppeler from Mr. sult of difficulty he has under­ added that he has been asked by plained to the civil service com­ (more on page 5) standing English. t Consul General Manuel A. AI- his home office to remain here as mission _ that it was because he Didn’t Understand : zate informed the RECORD that consul general for the Hawaiian “thought it was better.” But his Hurley, on the stand, testified he has written his home office in Islands and the Marianas Islands; explanation has not been accept­ U. of H. Prof. Won't that he had entered, the poolroom Manila- for his government’s ed, it is said, at face value by the to explain to Cabradilla the rea­ policy on the particular matter commissioners who passed a mo­ sons for ordering him‘to move, of returning dependents of the Not In Matson's Bed, tion June 3O to ask the board for Deny He Was Informer but that he still had difficulty consulate staff to the Philip­ $300—not $975—to finance the making the man understand.. pines. preparation of a civil service pro­ Against Alien Seaman 1 When a number > of other men If an emergency should arise, Pacific Transport Lines cedure manual. gathered around the pair, Hurley he said, travel facilities may not -At the June 30 meeting it was Jose Bradshaw, alien * seaman said, he thought.-he could explain be available and families of-the Executive Coppel Says ascertained that only $800 re­ who has been held by the U. S. better outside, but when he asked consulate employes, would be mained in the fund available to Immigration Bureau here for Cabradilla out, he still could not stranded. “The Matson Navigation . Co; is the commission for such purposes, three months, was recently or­ get his meaning across. Even today, he commented, he fighting us tooth and nail.