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Show JAP SUGAR LABORERS TO REMAIN ON STRIKE HONOLULU, T. H., May 25 A number num-ber of prominent Japanese commercial and professional men, meeting as the Japanese Current Problems Investigating Investigat-ing assdclation, recently appointed a committee of three leading Japanese to investigate the affairs of the Japanese labor organization which late in January Janu-ary instituted the strike of workers on the sugar plantations. Desplto tho announcement of the planters that, as far as they are concerned, con-cerned, tho strike Is over and the places of tho Japanese who walked out have been filled, tho Hawaiian Federation Feder-ation of Labor, formerly known as the Japanese Federation of Labor, asserts it ia proparod to carry tho fight for higher wages to a finish. Originally about eight thousand Japanese Jap-anese and Filipinos went on strike. Most of the Filipinos have returned to work, but figures from Japanese sources indicate that about five thousand thou-sand workers of that nationality still aro holding ouL |