SANDWICH ISLANDS

Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 4, 1 May 1913, Page 2

SANDWICH ISLANDS

A Rebel in the Hawaiian Islands writes:— Fellow-worker, — We received initial copy of paper a week ago. Glad to say it is the real thing, and you may expect a few orders from the “Paradise of the Parasites.” We expect to follow your example and get out a sheet here soon. There hasn’t been much organising done here yet. I came here from ’Frisco and managed, during the first three months, lo sign up over a thousand members. and, incidentally, got thrown in the can twice. We don’t believe in paying fines, or working on the chain gang, so I got some agitation on the stiffs inside. Last month I was on the island of Moui, and we now have a local at Wailuku, and a camp delegate in every town and every plantation in the island. We need literature in about a dozen different languages, and we are handicapped by lack of funds. The hardest slave to get hold of is the Jap, but he is a good fighter. Wages here are from 65 cents to 100 cents a day for plantation work, and 1 dollar 25 cents to 1 dollar 50 cents for good slaves in the city. They have the usual trimmings—road tax, hospital fee, etc.—so that the slaves don ’t get away with any of the bosses’ money. ALBERT Y. ROE. Hilo, T.H.