Ke Kiai, Volume I, Number 5, 18 September 1902 — Page 8
8 THE SENTINEL, SEPTEMBER 18, 1902
FOR CHEAP LABOR.
The labor question now being agitated by our local press and placed before the Congressional Commission is one of the vital questions pertaining to the welfare of Hawaii and should receive our earnest and proper attetion.
It is an undisputed fact that without asiatic labor our two great and principal industries—sugar and rice—will suffer considerably. Each day without it drifting them on to the verge of a general collapse and bankruptcy.
We admit that the sugar industry does not suffer as much at present as the rice industry yet it needs cheap laborers. With the present low prices of sugar and at the same time high price of labor it will only be a question of time when our main support will have to give way and with it our prosperity.
The cry against the importation of Asiatic laborers has come from our citizen mechanics and artisans who are making an effort to protect themselves. We support them in their attempt for self protection but not in the stand they have taken to the detriment of the two important industries mentioned.
It is the duty of every loyal citizen during these hours of our crying need and business stagnation to devise ways and means to solve this great problem of the need of cheap labor. The sugar barons are clamoring for cheap labor while our mechanics are protesting against the importaion of any more Asiatic laborers, and in the meantime the two industries, which are the mainstay of this Territory suffer.
The SENTINEL suggests the following solution providing of course both planters and mehanics will meet each half way.
First—Her congress enact a law permitting the importation of Asiatic with a provision in said act that they are to be employed as field laborers only.
Second—Under no circumstance would any such field laborer be employed on any skilled labor.
Third—Any Sugar Plantation Owner, Agent, Manager, Luna, or any one connected or who has authority tto employ laborers for said plantation, if he or they should employ a field laborer on any skilled work, should be punished by a fine the amount of which should be as high as possible to prevent the evading of the main intent of the law.
Fourth—Such owner, agent, manager, luna, or any one connected with the plantation when the term of the field laborer first agreed upon is up should see that such laborer is sent back to his own native land. For every such field laborer who is left on Hawaii and not returned, the plantation should be made to pay a daily fine to be agreed upon by congress until the field laborer is returned.
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