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Show JAPANESE STRIKERS STAND PAT Five Thousand of Them Are Out In Hawaiian Islands. Honolulu. With no prospect of receiving re-ceiving recognition from their employers em-ployers the 5,000 Japanese plantation hands on strike in the Hawaiian islands is-lands are politely but firmly standing pat and are quietly awaiting developments. develop-ments. the plantation strike in the islands, which was begun May 10, was the result re-sult of a determined and long standing stand-ing agitation on the part of the Japanese Jap-anese laborers on the sugar estates for an increase of wages from $10 to $22.50 a month. The Sugar Planters' association unwittingly un-wittingly brought about the agitation by flooding the islands with Japanese workmen toward the close of lastj year. |