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Show JAPANESE HANDS IN HAWAII STRIKI X WITH NO PROSPECT OF RECEIVING RECEIV-ING RECOGNITION. Discontented Laborers Demand Increase In-crease in Wages Are Quietly Awaiting Developments. Honolulu, May 16. With no prospect pros-pect of receiving recognition from the employers, the 5,000 Japanese plantation planta-tion hands on strike in the Hawaiian Islands are politely, but firmly, standing stand-ing pat and today they are quietly awaiting developments. The plantation strike in the Island?, which was begun a week ago, was-the result of a determined and long-standing agitation on tho part or the Japanese Jap-anese laborers on the sugar estates for an increase of wages from $18 to $22.50 a month. The Sugar Planters' association unwittingly un-wittingly brought about the agitation by flooding the islands with Japaneso 1 workmen toward the close of last year, j It was not long before these same workmen, whom the planters had imported im-ported in ordeV to solve, as they believed, be-lieved, the labor problem, surprised their employers by "beginning a spirited spir-ited compaign for the improvement of their own condition. Their discontent with existing wages took definite shape last December, when the canefleld workers held a mass-meeting, having supplied themselves them-selves with statistics purporting to show that while the planters reaped enormous profits from the land and held down the price of labor, the cost of living was increasing steadil'. 1 In their demands the Japanese workers work-ers were supported by the NIppu Jlji, . a radical newspaper "which aided the discontented Nipponese by calllug attention at-tention to the fact that tho Portugese laborers were paid $22.50 a month in addition to being supplied with an acre of land and house for each man. The only answer given by the planters plant-ers to the demands of their employes was to secure a grand jury indictment of Y. Soga. editor of the paper, on the ground that he was a dangerous and disorderly person. Mennwhile Hie. planters "diligently continued the importation of Portugese. On May 10 the Japanese, after having hav-ing been' refused many limes, compliance compli-ance with their characteristically noli no-li demands, walked out In a body, "practically "prac-tically tielng up all of the sugar plantations. plant-ations. Last Saturday seme of the mills resumed operations in a crippled condition with the aid of about 600 , Hawaiian. Portugese, Porto Rican and I Chinese strike-breakers. |