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Show WANT PORTO 11ICANS. Hawaiian Sugar Planters Plan to Import Laborers. Chicago. June 6. A special dispatch to the Chicago Record from Honolulu. Honolu-lu. Mav 29, via San Francisco, says: A convention of sugar planters and other employers of labor in all parts of the islands has been called to meet in Honolulu June 4 to consider the question ques-tion of a labor supply. With the end of imported contract labor, together with the apparent probability that there will be legislation against the further immigration of Japanese into all parts of the United States, the planters have been led to look elsewhere else-where for a labor supply. . One proposition that will be brought before the convention is to import laborers la-borers from Porto Rico. It is thought that the Porto Ricans are accustomed to sugar cultivation and that the devastating de-vastating hurricane of a few months ago has created a surplus of labor there which can be utilised here. Outside Out-side of the planters ther is opposition opposi-tion to the scheme. Plans for the inauguration of Governor Govern-or Dole and the territorial government are well under way. June 14, the day when the territorial act goes into effect, ef-fect, has been declared a holiday. It is expected that hundreds of people will be here from other islands. The annual an-nual Kamehameha day races in Honolulu Hono-lulu take place Monday, June 11 and these always attract a large number of , people. |