Show I PHILIPPINES TO GET I HUGE SUGAR FACTORY I IBy By lay Associated Press iress reu I HONOLULU T. T H. H Hf March March 10 I By Mail The Mall The Sugar Planters' Planters as association has agreed to build a sugar mill mm In the Philippines at an outlay oC of over O In tn addition mu much h I sugar land will bo be cultivated The is in the nature of oC a i j i reciprocal project sugar planters of or Hawaii to continue to secure unrestricted unrestricted labor immigration In return for their investment The planters are arc almost wholly dependent on the Philippines for lor their labor supply and without the Filipinos the plantations would find it difficult to operate Under th the Chinese exclusion act coolie cootie labor is not available Thousands Thou sands of Filipinos are Im Imported every year I This year ear the labor shortage Is acute acuto i j h because hundreds laundress of or Filipinos enriched en riched b by the unusually large sugar j I bonus bonus' paid the plantation laborers on Ithe i ithe the 1917 crop with sugar SUlar at ut better than an average price of or G 6 cents a al I pound have made mad their wn way to the J states or returned to their native land laud I This year C r the tho planters planters' association I l will raise n fund Cund of or for the theP I P Philippine project ct by a monthly assessment as I against members of oC 10 cents per ton of or sugar yielded li l i |