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Show BOTH SIDES SUFFER BECAUSE OF STRIKE HONOLULU. T IL. Feb. 19. (By jThe Associated Press ) Last spring's! 'strike of workers on the sugar plan- i lations of the Island of Oahu on I which Honolulu Is situated cost em-i players and employes approximately! $17;000.000. according to official and semi-official estimates from both sides. Leaders in sugar circles, who say their estimate of strike costs has just ;h-.-n completed, declare? that tho expense ex-pense of the strike to the plantations was SO. 50 per ton on tho entire crop, or about 112,000,000 The Hawaii Laborers' association, the Japanese organization whli h was1 the backbone of the strike', announced' recently that the workers lost M.OOQ,-iifiii M.OOQ,-iifiii In wages and bonuses, while ad- ministering the strike eost an ndeil-j tlonal $ 1,000,000. |