Show GOOD WORK FOR CHINESE LABOR wellington june P sargent general of immigration na returned to washington from a long tour of inspection of stations in the west including honolulu and the canadian frontier at honolulu mr sargent found a scarcity of labor on the sugar plantations experiments peri ments have been made with uese porto kicanas and negroes from the united states but all of them firoved unsatisfactory the planters sn mt that the ideal laborers in the cane fields are the chinese the japanese make fairly good field hands and some of them ultimately become what is known in thia country n skilled workmen however they are bof as satisfactory as the chinese to work for a reat length of time in the mud and water 0 the cano field many of them drift into the towns and villages where they get employment as blacksmiths carpenters help era and drivers the native hawaiian complain of this and say tha japanese are gradually usurping their places in employment the chinese however stick closely to their work in the fields are reliable and in nil way satisfactory they get about 50 cents a day including a good house to live iti and wood for cooking pur posen the planters will continue their efforts to secure from congress a modification fi of the chinese ric limion act alch will allow them to bring to the eslanda a sufficient number of Cliine so to kiosk their plantations at a profit |