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Show SUGAR AUTOCRACY IN ISLANDS CHARGED HOXOLITLP. T. H., Doc. 16 (By tho Associated Press) That Hawaii is a ' kingdom" ruled politically and economically by a few a ipur i pltal-ists. pltal-ists. at whose mercv one-third of the islands' population exists, that there Is no laor shortage and that the importation im-portation of Chinese coollea for tho plantation would mean "reviving slavery in an integral part of the United Unit-ed States, " were some of the trenchant trench-ant paragraphs in a statement submitted sub-mitted to tho federal labor Investigation Investiga-tion commission by the Japanese Laborers' La-borers' association. 'rve commission which recently heard a statement from the Filipino Labor uniori, also denying the existence of a labor shortage, short-age, was appointed by the federal government to investigate the situation situa-tion in the islands following the appeal from Hawaii for permission to admit eontract Chlneso labor for stated pe-Irods. |