| Volume 2 No. 2, August 11, 1949
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Honolulu's rent control commission has a soft heart for the landlords, and tenants like us pay through our noses How come?" The quiet, middle-aged man, who preferred not to be named, asked this question and said he and his friends just can't understand why the commission awarded an increase in rent to their landlady for their dark, poorly ventilated, ten by eleven room, from $12 to $25.50 early this year Charged Hotel Rates The rooming house where the man lives is registered at the Rent Control Commission as the Tin Can Alley Hotel or "Lani Rooms Annex" Since February 1945 to February this year, by order of the Rent Control Commission, rent per room per month was $12 if one adult occupied it; $18 for two adults and $24 for three. The rooms were to be fully furnished, with linen service. Sometime this year the landlady, Mrs. D. K. Lee, without the knowledge of the Rent Control Commission began charging hotel rates, although she had no authority under, the law to do so. As a hotel, she charged some tenants $18, and even as high as $24 per person per room, the variance depending on the degree of opposition. [full story]
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SIU Members Get Pressure to Stay on Board Ships
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Behind the return of crews of the Seafarers International Union to the S. S. Steelmaker lies a story that has not been told in the daily press. It is a story of the pressure of some officials of the SIU against seamen who felt, and still feel that it is wrong for them to stay aboard ships behind the ILWU picket lines. Alter the men had walked off the Steelmaker, in sympathy for the striking ILWU longshoremen, a roving representative of the SIU appeared and began to threaten them with loss of their union books if they did not go back aboard. [full story]
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Last Friday a man stumbled into the office of a local lawyer to half-sit half-lie on the attorney's desk while he told a story that is part of the aftermath of the stevedoring disaster at Hilo Feb. 7, 1943, when seven men were killed and seven injured in an accident. The visitor was Camilio Rodrigues, 37, one of the "less seriously injured" in that accident, which occurred when a loaded sling struck an ammonia-pipe in the hold of a ship and loosed deadly fumes on the men working there At the time, Rodrigues was hospitalized for four months at the expense of the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Insurance Co., which handled the group insurance of the stevedoring operation for C Brewer & Co., the employer. After that time, in which the company computes its expenditure at $335, Rodrigues was discharged and told, he was all right. [full story]
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By Koji Ariyoshi Ex-ambassador to China Major General Patrick J. Hurley, this week blamed the "pro-Communists in the state department" for causing the overthrow of the Kuomintang regime He says the foreign service officers he removed from China actually engineered the government's downfall And he adds they are now 'presumably writing alibi white papers." The former ambassador fails to take credit that is due him. He was one of the principals that precipitated the policy which overthrew the corrupt Kuomintang government. [full story]
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The name of Honorio M. Aria, 1225 Pua Lane is missing from the corporation exhibits of three Philippine firms filed at the Territorial treasurer's office. Yet Mr. Garcia has bought shares totaling $650 m these companies. Just one of many such cases among our people," says Romualdo S. Manuel, dealer in men's clothing at 1369 Liliha St., who is helping Garcia and numerous other Filipinos to recover money paid for shares in various Philippine enterprises. [full story]
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"The legislature has, by its act, broadened the fight in Hawaii to a fight that now threatens all labor in the U. S. If this method can be used in Hawaii, it will become a pattern all over the U. S. It's a real fascist step," Harry Bridges told the RECORD Wednesday, a few minutes before he entered Iolani Palace to confer with the Attorney-General's office on the new law by which the Territory has entered the strike. This is the worst and most vicious anti-labor law that has ever been attempted in the whole history of American labor," he added. [full story]
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The real cause of the incident at Civic Auditorium Tuesday night, when Al Schaff, boxing promotor, allegedly assaulted Joe Rose, radio sports commentator did not appear in the Star-Bulletin's front-page account. "He got the idea I wrote that story," Rose told the RECORD, "that one your paper ran on amateur boxing I don't know what was wrong with him. He acted as if he were nutty, or hopped up." Rose said he had already initiated action toward an assault and battery charge against Schaff. Schaff was not available for comment when the RECORD went to press but the story in question may have been one written by Edward Rohrbough in the August 4 Anniversary issue of the RECORD and it carried the headline, "Amateur Boxing Deal Was Nippen in Bud by Premature Disclosure--Miles. In the story Mr. Rohrbough reported a telephone conversation, recorded by Tommy Miles, former secretary of the Territorial Boxing Commission in which a mysterious "Al" figured conspicuously. Rose had quoted liberally from the RECORD story in his sports broadcast.
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Country Boy Pres. Leroy Lincoln of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. which is the biggest insurance firm in the world, faced members of the House monopoly subcommittee last week and said: '"There seems to be little concern as to the manner and method by which the life insurance business is conducted throughout the U. S." While he discussed freely the size and wealth of his company, he would not say that its giant holdings carried with it economic or political power of any kind. He was jumpy when Rep. Kenneth B. Keating (R., N. Y.) used the words "concentration of economic power." Commented Lincoln with a grimace: "I'd hate to have to put it that way." But Lincoln gave these facts: The Metropolitan Life has assets of some $9 billion, that it has increased its holdings by 85 per cent in the last 10 years; that it makes gigantic loans of many millions each to all sorts of industrial and utilities companies in private deals; and that it is kingpin of the 12 largest U. S. insurance companies, whose combined assets reach $40 billion. [full story]
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China White Paper Once again the State Department washed its hands of all blame on developments in China, and stated its case in the 1,054-page white paper. Newspapers reported that the department defended its ''wait-and-see" China policy. Actually, as the white paper brought out, the corrupt Kuomintang government had received substantial support from the U. S. but military supplies and U. S. trained Chinese soldiers had fallen into Communist hands. Back in 1947, when General Marshall withdrew as mediator between the Kuomintang and the Communists, he blamed the Kuomintang reactionaries and "extremists" in the Communist party for the civil war in China, but not the U. S.--Far East observers quickly pointed out then that one-sided military support of Chiang Kai-shek's regime by the U. S. had buttressed Chiang who depended on Uncle Sam to carry on civil war. [full story]
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Walter Francis Dillingham Residence: "La Pietra" and Mokuleia President-Director: Oahu Railway & Land Co., Ltd. Formerly officer or director of: Rapid Transit Co., Honolulu Bond & Mortgage Co., Haleiwa Hotel Co., Dillingham Transportation Bldg., Woodlawn Stock & Dairy Co., Hawaiian Hume Concrete Pipe Co., Hawaiian Macadamia Nut Co., Pacific-Zeppelin Trans-port Co., Dowsett .Co., etc., etc. Born 1875, son of Benjamin F. Dillingham, president of O. R. & L. Co., and Emma Louise Smith, daughter of missionary Rev. Lowell Smith. Married Louise Olga Gaylord; daughter of a Chicago capitalist. Children: Lowell S. Benjamin F.; Henry Gaylord (killed in action), Mrs. Myron A. Wick. Brother of Harold G., and uncle of Walter H., Harold G. Jr., J. Henley, Bayard H. and Peter H. Dillingham. Brother of Mrs. Walter F. Frear and uncle of Mrs. Urban K. Wild. Brother of Mrs. John P. Erdman and uncle of Mrs. Charles J. Henderson (Mr. Henderson is vice president of Castle & Cooke). Education: Punahou, Harvard. Clubs: Oahu Country Club, American Legion, etc., etc. Has been president, Chamber of Commerce; Dept. Commander, American Legion; president, Council of Social Agencies, etc., etc. Director of Food Production in OMG during, war. Mrs. Dillingham was director of civilian war services under OCD. Mr. Dillingham, was strongly in favor of military rule. Chairman of Territorial Committee 1921-23 which begged Congress for per-mission to import Chinese coolies; predicted civil war with local Japanese unless Chinese were brought in. At present the chief opponent of Statehood. Sometimes called "first citizen of Hawaii."
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The Question: Do you think the strike bill will open the ports of the Territory? Dr. Sameul K. Apoliona, Jr., dentist; 1111 Union St. No. I don't think so because there's too much restriction inside there. Too much restriction will hurt both your employers and employes. This strike is hurting both parties. Anthony Maldonado, candy maker, 1112 Fort St.: The bill is passed now, taking over the wharfs temporarily. They'll unload the ships here. The seamen will walk off the ships here. The governor can't force them to go back and sail the ships. Now up there in San Francisco, Matson picked the Hawaiian Refiner as a test ship to sail cargo here. But the longshoremen refuse to load it. What can the Territorial government do? [full story]
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By Richard Sasuly (Federated Press) The Clark Nomination There is an old saying here in Washington that you can never tell what a man will do when he once attains the eminence of the U.S. Supreme Court. The late Justice McReynolds had been a trustbuster, became an ultra reactionary on the high court Hugo Black, Wiley Rutledge and the late Prank Murphy, on the other hand, exceeded the hopes of their supporters as liberals. In the case of Tom, named by Pres. Truman to succeed Murphy, the record seems too clear to admit of surprises. Clark's record on defense of civil liberties is bad. It is hard to find anyone who expects his record to improve. His nomination apparently writes an end to a period in which the court generally supported a New Deal philosophy and the rights of labor. [full story]
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Four who would like nothing better than to "go back where they came from" are four war-brides" in Honolulu of whom Gadabout has heard this week, though no one of them knows the other three. They are from Shanghai, Germany, France and Holland, respectively, and each has voiced her opinion, loudly to her husband that she had it better at home and wishes she were there again. ***** PERFEX cameras get criticized by salesmen who peddle them. A man whose job it is to hawk Perfex for one of the city's largest department stores, said last week, "I wouldn't have one. We unpacked a lot of them last year and the lenses had already fallen out of plenty." [full story]
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Guests at the RECORD'S First Anniversary Party heard Richard Kageyama and W. K. Bassett salute the newspaper on its first year of existence Saturday night at La Hula Rhumba. Editor Koji Ariyoshi of the RECORD said the newspaper will continue to fight against discrimination and the Big Five. Interspersed among speeches and dancing to the music of David Kahoonei and his Harmony Swingsters were floor show acts that included a hula by Linda Lorenzo, a series of boogie-woogie piano numbers by Jimmy Tate, pianist, and a comedy act by Pepe Sanchez, well known entertainer of the Waipahu unit of the Sugar Workers unit of the ILWU. Little Miss Lorenzo, who was announced by master of ceremonies Henry Epstein as "the girl who sells 30 RECORDS every week," stole the show with her version of the hula—which incidentally won her first prize to the "peewee" class to amateur competition held by the ILWU women's auxiliary a few weeks ago.
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By Wildred Oka Scattered all over the Territory in every village and town, are pool halls where thousands play what is politely referred to as pool, the poor man's golf. These pool emporiums usually house from two to four pool tables. Bethel Street located in the heart of downtown Honolulu is the Mecca of every pool player in Hawaii. A rated player from Bethel Street playing in the country district is conceded a poor "head." Bethel Street pool sharks are given that much respect. [full story]
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By Lou Maupin Lou Maupin, political writer for many years in Nebraska, was once instrumental in electing Hugh Butler to the U. S. Senate. Now he regrets his earlier stand for Butler and tells RECORD readers why in a special article. It is both strange and inconsistent that a man who would never think of writing a bum check will often author devious and misleading statements and propaganda of half truths. [full story]
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By Tiny Todd SCENE: Brig.Gen. Blunderboar's office, Headquarters, Supreme Commander Occupation Forces, Imperial Hotel Building, Tokyo. Blunderboar, of MacArthur's public relations department, sits at his desk tensely. Around him, also sitting tensely, are assorted colonels and majors. Blunderboar: "All right, men, since the Russians have sent these prisoners-of-war back, we'll do a job on them. We'll get pictures of individual prisoners who have been beaten and starved. Get pictures of the scars. Get plenty of ribs showing. Guys with feet wrapped in rags because there weren't any shoes in the Soviet Union. Stuff like that." Col. Blodgett: "I think we'd better talk about it a little, general." [full story]
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The twice-postponed hearing of Gottfried Seitz, dismissed Territorial probation officer, before the Civil Service Commissioners produced two conflicting stories. W. C. Castro, administrator, asked the Commissioners to uphold the dismissal. He charged Seitz with demoralization of the office, failure to carry out orders, lack of knowledge of department rules and court procedure, presenting subjective reports, tardiness, and poor judgment in his work. Says Reports Colored Castro admitted that "charge four, presenting subjective reports full of omissions of fact and inaccuracies, is the point that made me feel he should be dismissed. That is the important charge. All the others could have been talked out.'' [full story]
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By Wilfred Oka What's Wrong With a Leo Leavitst Promotion? Last week's Rosa-Young match confirmed again the contention of the public that a Leo Levitt promotion featuring the worst preliminary bouts will not draw the fans in spite of a fairly good main event. Using the strike as an excuse for not drawing may have a little merit but this was not substantiated by the previous week's Karasick-Kim promotion which had a fairly decent preliminary supporting card. That promotion drew the fans to give the Civic a near-full house. For example, on the Rosa-Young card he had a match between Harry Clyde and Joseph Contrades which was called a day or two before the fight night. These two boys had fought a fortnight ago. Contrades was knocked out by a glancing blow on the shoulder thrown by Clutching Clyde. We claimed in our column that these two boys belong in the same stable, owned lock, stock, and barrel by Monsieur Le Samuel. [full story]
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By Allan Beekman One effect of the waterfront strike has been the popularization of the term "kolea." This picturesque word not only designates a particular type of person, it also indicates the attitude of persons who habitually apply it to their opponents. It is the Hawaiian equivalent of the southern epithet, "dam-yankee n - - er lover." The inhuman attitude of the southern white supremacists who expend their efforts to prevent the negro from attaining human dignity has its counterpart here The difference in the aims of the local advocates of white supremacy is in degree, rather than in kind, in terms, rather than meaning. And the object of their savage discrimination is not the negro alone, but the colored people here in general. [full story]
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Ammoniated Dentifrices Last year the big white tooth hope was sodium fluoride. That subsided when it was found that sodium fluoride was most useful for children's teeth and had to be applied very carefully by a dentist. Now the advertising campaign is all behind "ammoniated" products. The usual formula contains a 5 per cent dibasic ammonium phosphate and 3 per cent of carbamide. The belief that this combination will retard tooth decay is, according to Consumers Union, in no way supported by facts now available. A controlled test is now under way, and results should be available in about two to three years. The Council on Dental Therapeutics of the American Dental Association took away its seal of approval from all dentifrices several years ago because it considered them cosmetics and held that effective cleaning was available from a home preparation of baking powder and salt. There is no evidence whatsoever that the products stop decay. [full story]
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ILWU Strikers Refuse To Break Own Strike With the 103-day mark in sight, thus making the present longshore strike the longest on a Territory-wide basis since the ILWU first came to the islands, these were the latest developments on the strike front: 1. While the Territory is busy recruiting what is tantamount to strike breakers under Act 2 passed by the special session of the legislature, there was definite assurance from the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association (CIO) that its members would not sail from behind any ILWU picket lines. Meanwhile, the Maritime Workers Committee for Public Action in Philadelphia announced that the "hot" ships Steel Flyer and Steel Maker, would not be unloaded when they reach their destination. [full story]
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For quite a number of the Territory's unemployed, the present "strike-busting" and "union-busting" legislation just passed by the Special Session and signed by the governor to end the waterfront strike might be a cheering thing. The unemployed who stand in the slow-moving lines by Pier 9 to sign up for stevedoring work look hopeful. To most of them the question of right or wrong to engage in what is actually "scabbing" is outweighed by the impelling demands for bread and butter, or salt and rice. Thus, when the governor seizes the struck stevedoring industry in a move that can have no other meaning than strikebreaking, these men flock to* apply for jobs. [full story]
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TURNING POINT IN 1909 STRIKE Ed. Note: This article is taken from a long series, Looking Backward 50 Years In Hawaii, by Yasutaro Soga, former editor of the Nippu Jiji (now called The Hawaii Times). The series appeared in the Japanese language section of the Hawaii Times. Translation is by Take and Allan Beekman. Last week's installment described the arrest and trial of leaders in the Japanese community, not belonging to the working class, on charges of conspiracy to boycott plantation business. Actually the leaders were imprisoned and tried for "agitating" the under-paid plantation workers. Earlier installments have described the exodus of strikers from plantation property, and the employers' use of police and government power to crush the strike. There were no unions then, as we find in the islands today, therefore the laborers lacked solidarity and support essential to whining their demands in face of stubborn employer resistance. [full story]
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By Frank Marshall Davis V. Depression and War: Paul Robeson’s Stand Two distinguished Americans are leading the resistance movement against the drive of Big Business toward World War III as a way out of the new depression and for preservation of tremendous profits through global domination. They are Henry A. Wallace, former vice president, and Paul Robeson, singer and actor. You don't hear much about Wallace in the islands. Out here he gets the silent treatment. On the Mainland he is lambasted or ignored. Recently the propaganda guns of the warmongers have been turned on Robeson, and the errand boys of Big Business, who live on the crumbs tossed by the trusts and monopolies, have taken up the cry. [full story]
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