Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 331, 25 November 1891 — CHEAP LABOR. [ARTICLE]

CHEAP LABOR.

-i: 3 we anticipaied, a tew weekg ago, we hear, that a grand smash np in the pumping gear attached t > the Manmoth Pump on the Ewa Planlaiion. This break down is due eheap Asiatic labor emploje.l on the plan of economy as urg- • J <l l-v the ü baronslt appears T. :i i the eheap laborer has been M?t to work to steal knowledge of skilled mechanics, in about three «>r four weeks, with the view of supj)):inting the latter. - This has been done. and the re- j eult is as we state them above. and < omes under the head of expen--Bive repairs, to be done by skilled mechanics. What a pity that these "barons ?> are nol compelled, for thē s.ike nf economy, to go back to Chinese labor and primitive implcment3 of agriculture and wajrß of cultivation, so as to fully test the and profits whieh thev Iculate to receive from eheap lAhr>r.