Honolulu Record, August 18, 1949, vol. 2 no. 3, p. 4

Gadabout

"THE TRUTH," a sheet sponsored by 28 sugar and stevedoring companies offers $100 to the ''first person who proves that any article in 'The Truth' is not true." Here's the way it, nevertheless, uses the truth to make a lie. In a story titled, "Honolulu Record Tips Un-ion Hand on Riot," it carries a partial quote from a Gadabout item as follows: "Scabs at Hawaii Stevedores, Ltd., had ample warning of the growing tension among union men preceding Wednesday's melee at 730 Ala Moana Blvd. From a point close to the picket line, a union spokesman warned the scabs by loudspeaker—"

The bosses' paper breaks the quote right there, after under-lining the last phrase. The implication is that the loudspeaker warning was that someone's head would get caved in, or some such. The rest of the sentence was— "that union men were burned up over the fact that there were some workers who would risk wages, hours, and job security for all, merely for the sake of making a few dollars now."

Then there's the distortion in "The Truth's" masthead about the 28 companies who sponsor the paper "for the thousands of employees who depend upon them for a 'living."

Wouldn't the reverse be more accurate?

At the Hawaii Theater

Saturday night the management found out it had no right to block free public parking spaces with its ladders while putting up signs proclaiming coming attractions. It was informed, in fact, by the police.

Said Gadabout's informant, "Also, a couple of hours more work was created for working men. But

don't give the police too much credit. They need a lesson, too, in courtesy. I'll bet they don't yell at Ben Dillingham when he makes a mistake in traffic the way they do at the ordinary guy. Come to think of it, that might be a very good rule for the cops to follow. Let 'em treat everyone the way they treat Ben Dillingham."

Capt. Herbert M. Rego, speaking of cops, has been the subject of much informal discussion " (mostly uncomplimentary) among taxi drivers, since he has chosen an easy way out of being blamed for the Bartholomew killing by seeking disability retirement. As police advisor for the finky Oahu Taxi Association, he never gave taxi drivers an easy way, they say. Instead, they insist, he seemed to adopt a premise that all taxi drivers were crooks and treated them in that manner. And there are still many conjectures as to why Rego, a sergeant for many years, suddenly won quick promotions to lieutenant and then to captain under Chief William Hoopai.

A 7 LB. GIRL was born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Marshall Davis at 8:41.Monday morning. The mother was reported to be doing nicely and "Frank-ly Speaking"' will appear on the RECORD'S editorial page next week as usual. 

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Maluhia Home, according to some reports, has been subjecting its employes to illegal work schedules of 45 hours per week (40 is maximum) and in addition posting notices asking the employes to volunteer for extra work cleaning up around the building.

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The Sewers Department may find itself in an equally illegal position if it tries to even things with 45-hour-week workers by paying them straight time, or making the extra hours up with time off on an hour-for-hour basis. Either method avoids the time-and-a-half which is due the workers who work more than 40 hours.

Penny-pinching by the heads of C-C departments is the practice by which they've made this kind of trouble for them-selves. They try to solve the short-age created by vacation periods by working all employes overtime so as to make up for their own vacations—without disturbing the budget. A solution that might be appreciated more by the workers would be that of hiring new vacation-period employes on a temporary basis, thus decreasing unemployment, giving regular workers a square shake, and making their own administrations legal. But it would involve spending some more money.

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The “Gerry” of the recorded telephone conversation in the story about amateur boxing in the Anniversary Issue should have been "Jerry," Ed Rohrbough informs Gadabout, asking that the correction be made. A spokesman for Al Schaff says Al doesn't deny being the mysterious "Al" of the conversation and says he'll give the RECORD the whole story one of these days. 

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Leo  Leavitt called a local official not too long ago and asked him if he wouldn't accept the secretaryship of the Territorial Boxing Commission. The official thought not, but said that if he did, there'd be no monkey business.