HGEA Opposes Probe Body May Uncover Worse Than Spoils System In Depts.

By Staff Writer

Was it because of fear of the results of an investigation into City-County departmental administration that the Hawaii Government Employees Association opposed the appointment of Research Associates as the agent of the Civil Service Commission's investigation into City-County administrative, personnel, and business practices?

Some City Hall observers think that fear among heads of certain City-County departments inspired the protest of HGEA's executive secretary, Charles R. Kendall, against the Research Associates in a meeting of the Civil Service Commission last week. [full story]

For one striking longshoreman, Eugenio Macadangdang, the strike is not the toughest fight he's been in—though winning or losing may determine his whole future Macadangdang is one of the aliens the Advertiser's always talking about as "crucifying good American citizens." He's also a survivor of the Bataan "Death March," who risked his life many times during World War II fighting against the enemies of the United States— the soldiers of Imperial Japan.

Working as a civilian laborer at the age of 16, Macadangdang was employed by the Philippine Army (incorporated into the Army of the U. S. after Dec 7, 1941) around Canlubang airfield. Early in January of 1942 he was moved to Bataan peninsula where he worked behind the shifting battle lines, passing up ammunition. [full story]

Naalehu Co. Control Of Rec. Hall Blocks Union Meetings

"There is no need of creating artificial hysteria in Naalehu or elsewhere for the real and the only issue confronting the members of the ILWU and the Big 5 is a wage demand for sugar and longshore,' Wenceslao Q. See, business agent for Naalehu and Pahala ILWU units wrote the Hilo Tribune-Herald recently.

''Your paper," the Kau district business agent wrote the editor, "has played up the activities of the Naalehu 'We, the Women' which was reported by the wife of the Industrial Relations Director of the plantation and who is also the brain of the so-called 'housewives' organization and a news reporter for the Hilo Tribune-Herald from that area." [full story]

Los Angeles—Support for the ILWU in its strike for higher wages in Hawaii and opposition to the deportation charges brought against ILWU President Harry Bridges was voted by the 800 delegates to the 40th annual national convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which recently closed in Los Angeles.

The NAACP, composed of some 500,000 members, also asked for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law, scored President Truman's loyalty order which has "resulted in police inquisition and grave injustice," and condemned the House Un-American Activities Committee and requested Acting Secretary Roy Wilkins to appoint a committee to plan a national campaign for the passage of civil liberties legislation. Truman was charged with being equally responsible with the 81st Congress for failure to pass civil rights laws

The Spingarn Medal, annually awarded to the Negro who has made the highest achievement in the preceding year, was presented to Dr. Ralph Bunche, United Nations Palestine mediator At the closing mass rally held in Hollywood Bowl, the big audience heard Mme. V. J. Pandit, Indian ambassador to the U. S., Gov. William H. Hastie of the Virgin Islands, and Dr. Bunche.

Hawaiian Pineapple Co., Ltd., enjoyed its best year since 1942, according to the report to stockholders. The report informs its readers that each share of stock earned $3.21, of which $2 was paid the lucky holder in dividends. Last year, by comparison, each share made $1.99, of which $1.50 was paid the stockholder. Until now, not since 1942 has Hawaiian Pine paid such a high dividend.

But that's not all. In addition to these profits, something like a million and a half dollars worth of "unissued" stock was made available for purchase by the officers of the corporation who paid $17.50 per share. [full story]

Local dailies play up the information that the steel workers are demanding a 12 1/2 cents wage increase. The Employers Council releases news which says that the fourth round wage increases sought by the unions are generally considerably less than at any time since the war. The employers say the ILWU Longshoremen's present demands are three times higher than Mainland increases.

The fact is that the steel workers are demanding a package increase which includes a 12 1/2 cents wage boost, plus social benefits all of which adds up to 30 cents The auto workers are asking for a 40 cent increase, and in the package demand are health insurance, pension and wage increase.

What the employers don't say is that these unions set the pace for the fourth round increases.

Manila (ALN)—Filipino labor and many other groups here are indignant over a statement by U. S. Ambassador Myron M Cowen advising the Philippine government to ''reduce labor costs" which are "too high" if it wants to attract American investments.

Philippine wages have actually been dropping rather than rising. The low earnings and purchasing power of Filipino workers have even alarmed some non-labor quarters here. The Manila Times recently published figures showing how much both have declined as compared with the last pre-war year, 1941.

Repudiates Unlimited Concessions

The Philippine Congress of Labor Organizations, which held its fourth annual convention in Manila late in July, has gone on record repudiating the policy of unlimited concessions to the U. S. pursued by President Elpidio Quirino. [full story]

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Speedup Spreading

Unemployment is a powerful weapon for the bosses who know that the jobless are eager to get into the boots of the employed.

A midwest employer who's conscious of this was quoted in Mill & Factory, an industry journal: "We are just beginning to witness improvement in work attitudes due to more plentiful labor supply."

The magazine's questionnaire to 1,000

•Fifty-three per cent of the employers said employe productivity this year was higher than the output per man-hour a year ago. Forty-three per cent said productivity was about the same. Four per cent reported it was lower. [full story]

Divided Korea

In South Korea, the government of the Republic of Korea observed the first anniversary of its existence and President Syngman Rhee, eulogized the great accomplishments of his regime which he enumerated one by one.

If the situation in the peninsula nation was as bright as he pictured it to be, the 30,000,000 Koreans would be rejoicing. Actually, Korea was physically divided at the 38th parallel. There is a political split, also, and the country is threatened with a civil war.

There have been border clashes between the forces of North and South Korea, and Rhee had in the past made strong requests for U.S. military assistance.

The present tense atmosphere has not contributed to individual freedom. For many months South Korea has been under a modified kind of martial law and. the people have been pushed around. More than a dozen newspapers and magazines have been suppressed, mainly because they criticized the Rhee government. [full story]

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The Hawaii Civil Liberties Committee authorized a sub-committee of three members, at a meeting Aug. 15, to continue investigation of legal bottle-necks in the case of an Oahu prison inmate convicted of rape.

Attention of the HCLC had been attracted to the case by a letter written to the Committee by the prisoner, Carl C. Hamilton.

A sub-committee headed by Morris Murray obtained an interview with Hamilton to get his version of the case. Murray made a report to the HCLC membership after the interview. His report was also based on a study of all court records, and the transcript of the trial. [full story]

By Special Writer

The "Un-Hong Kong Activities Committee"' set up by the British Government in May has unusual provisions that might be called to the attention of the Hawaiian legislature.

Under the Hong Kong bill, all societies with more than ten members must register with the government. The registrar (Chief Constable) is "empowered to ban any Society which has any con­nection with political bodies outside the Island."

KMT, Gangster Disorders

Any resident of the city may be called as a witness against any other suspected resident. Such witnesses are to be photographed and fingerprinted. He may be required to testify even though his testimony incriminates himself. [full story]

The Question:

The Dept. of Public Welfare has adopted a policy that all able-bodied applicants must apply for government stevedore jobs or be barred from relief. Inasmuch as the ILWU longshoremen are on strike is the Dept. of Public Welfare's directive justified?

Jack Wakayama, Realtor, 1010 Alakea St.: I can't offhand say. I never thought of it. I'd have to study it
before I give you a direct answer. [full story]

Arthur Rutledge, AFL leader, was served with no injunction when he joined Bridges on the picketline Monday because, as the deputy high sheriff pointed out, all the John Doe warrants were for ILWU members. Said Rutledge: "No self-respecting union man can stand idly by without putting up a fight to save unionism and civil rights which are endangered."

Harry Bridges pauses in the picketline while the attorney-general's injunction is read him by a deputy high sheriff. Bridges, by joining the picketline at Pier 9 against the Territory's strike-breaking operation Monday, gave rank-and-file union men confidence by choosing to test the Stainback Law, himself.

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By Allan Beekman

Did the Filipino, nationals who were residing in Hawaii and other parts of America at the time of the proclamation of the Philippine Independence Act, July 4, 1946 lose their status as American nationals and become aliens?

Federal Judge J. Frank Mc-Laughlin, in a decision filed June 23, 1949, ruled that" they did become aliens. Arcadio Cabebe, whose suit had precipitated the decision, has taken issue with the judge's ruling; his attorney, Y. Fukushima, has appealed the decision.

The appeal may affect 50,000 Filipinos in Hawaii and as many in Mainland America whose status is now in doubt, and who, as a result of their loss of national status, are barred from civil service jobs and, in a number of other ways, find their situation worsened. [full story]

"Who gave the officials or pie-cards the authority to send men through the Canadian Seamen's Union picketlines?"

It may sound like a comparatively innocent question, but when John A. Mahoney, patrolman of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific in Seattle, asked it, he was expelled. But that wasn't the end. The Seattle branch of SUP and the Portland branch failed to con-cur with the decision and now the Seattle SUP publishes a four-page newspaper all its own called the "Defender." According to the masthead of Vol. 1, No. 4, the Defender is "Ordered published by the Seattle Branch of SUP in defense of union rights." The SUP president, Harry Lundeberg, has ordered his rank-and-file also to ignore the picketlines of striking ILWU longshoremen in Hawaii.

"I am going to fight the restrictive covenant. It really burns me up when haoles get together to keep non-haoles from a residential district," a young Chinese-American real estate broker said recently.

"I won't touch such a deal," said another broker of Oriental ancestry. "I've got pride."

Exclusively haole residential areas in Honolulu are fewer today because non-haoles have battered down the restrictive walls by devious means. In several known cases, haoles have assisted people of Oriental extraction to buy homes in restricted areas.

A prominent realtor in Honolulu offhand named certain sections of Kahala and a tract on Diamond Head as exclusive districts. Another mentioned that the beach side tract of Aina Haina was restricted, but probably not at present. The same was said of the Dillingham Tract on Diamond Head.

"Documents on land transaction do not say that non-haoles are excluded. If restrictive covenant is written into a land document, it becomes illegal," Edward A. Bolles, chairman of the Real Estate license Commission informed the RECORD.

Mike Quin died two years ago on August 14, 1947. Well-known for his writings, as author and journalist, a great part of his works dealt with labor and the struggles of the common man. In early 1943, he began radio broad-casting and up to June 1945, he was known as "The CIO Re-porter on the Air."

He was a columnist for the ILWU Dispatcher. The following letter was writ-ten by him to his "union brothers" almost three months before his death, when he knew that he had but a short time to live.

To my brothers, the Longshore-men and Warehousemen: By the time you read this the Old Man will have come to get me.

In other words, I shall be dead. Although I carry no card in either the Longshore or Warehouse Union, I want you to know that I have been your brother for a long time. [full story]

Residence: 3240 Noela Street, Diamond Head

Pres.-Manager-Director: Hawaiian Trust Co., Ltd.
Director: Bishop National Bank.
Director: Castle & Cooke, Ltd.
Director: Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd.
Director: H'n Commercial Sugar Co., Ltd. (A&B) Director: Kohala Sugar Co. (C&C)
2nd Vice-Pres.-Director: Hamakua Mill Co., Ltd. (Davies) Vice-Pres.-Director: Home Insurance Co. of Hawaii, Ltd.
(C&C)
Vice-Pres.-Director: Consolidated Amusement Co., Ltd.
Director: Inter-island Steam Nav. Co., Ltd.
Director: Hawaiian Air Lines, Ltd; (IISNC)
Director: McCabe, Hamilton & Renny Co., Ltd.
Director: Kaneohe Ranch Co., Ltd. (Castle family) 
Vice-Pres.-Director: Charles Brewer Estate, Ltd.
Secretary-Director: John Ii Estate, Ltd. 
Trustee: Charles Notley Trust Estate
Trustee-Secretary: Samuel N. & Mary Castle Foundation
(Former President: Selma-Dindings Plantations, Ltd.)

Born 1888, Argyleshire, Scotland; educated in Scotland. Came to Hawaii 1912; joined staff of Hawaiian Trust Co. 1915; became president-manager 1945. Is probably director in a wider range of. companies than any other businessman.

"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." [full story]

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The stevedoring companies of Hawaii deny that the "Big Five" sugar plantations control the Hawaiian legislature They also say that there is no interlocking directorate. The list below, with all the tie-ups not fully developed, shows the "Big Five" influence on the legislature. This list shows why the present 45 member legislature is passing law after law to break the waterfront strike. The "Big Five" with their bank and trust company connections (investments directors, officers) wield strong influence over practically all legislators.

Sen. Toshio Ansai—Manager of the Waihee Dairy and Farm, Wailuku Sugar Co C Brewer & Co., Ltd holds controlling interest in the sugar company and it has 100 per cent owner-ship of Hilo Transportation & Terminal Co, Ltd (stevedoring firm). C. Brewer & Co. is connected with Bishop National Bank and Hawaiian Trust.

Sen. John G. Duartes—Shop superintendent of the Maui Publishing Co., Ltd, which is connected with the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Ltd (34 per cent owned by Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd.). The Kahului Railroad Co., and the Maui Equipment Co.—bus line and stevedoring—are 90 per cent owned by H. C. & S. Co., Ltd. Alexander & Baldwin also owns 50 per cent of Kauai Terminals, Ltd (stevedoring firm). Furthermore A. & B. interests own over 39 per cent of the Island of Maui—344 per cent of the assessed valuation of all land there A. & B. owns 75 per cent of American Factors, Ltd., and is connected with Castle & Cooke, Ltd., Bishop National Bank, Bishop Trust and Hawaiian Trust. A. & B. owns 168 per cent of Matson Navigation Co. McCabe, Hamilton & Renny is connected with A. & B. and others by directorate. [full story]

By Edward Rohrbough

When General Albert Wedemeyer, as Chiang Kai-shek's military advisor, saw two years ago that the Kuomintang armies must inevitably be thrown out of North China by the Communist-led people's Armies, he advised Chiang to withdraw and consolidate South China around Canton. Wedemeyer is a professional soldier, and he may have reasoned that the Kuomintang should be stronger in provinces such as Kwangtung, Kiangsi, and Fukien because it had maintained its government through most of that area for the larger part of the anti-Japan war, and because the civil war had not reached the south on a scale of open warfare. Yet today, the few stories from China that sprinkle the local press tell how the Kuomintang disintegrates and falls back from town to town, faster even than it did before the Japanese advance of 1944-45, faster than in the civil war above the Yangtze. [full story]

By Staff Writer

Remember the Civil Rights Bill, similar to the law existing in New York and other states, which would have outlawed racial discrimination in the Territory?

Did you ever wonder why the Legislature never did anything about it? Here's your answer. "The bill introduced to assure equal rights in places of public accomodation [sic], resort or amusement was killed by the Association in committee."

That's the report in the annual minutes, to the membership of the Hawaii Restaurant and Dispensers Association, over the signature of Corinne von Wedelstaedt, the association's executive secretary and a prominent parader in the Million Dollar Picket Line before Pier 11. Why did the association swing its powerful lobby against the Civil Rights Bill which was endorsed by religious and progressive groups? The answer is in the next sentence of the association's minutes.

"This action was taken because it was felt that the passage of such a bill would be furthering the problem of racial discrimination." Here are some other "achievements" of the association's legislative lobby, according to the minutes submitted by Miss von Wedelstaedt. [full story]

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By Tiny Todd

I was sitting under the banyan tree with Large George and munching popcorn from a bag when this kid came up. He stood around watching me for a moment,  and then he came right out with what was on his mind.

"Gimme some," he said. I tried staring him down, but it didn't work so I poured four or five grains out into his hand. "You might do that now," rumbled George, "but come Wednesday, you'd better watch your step." "Do what?" I yelped. "I ain't doing nothing."

"Yes you are," George answered. 

"It is extremely doubtful at this moment whether or not your act is entirely legal."

I said, "Now look, George. Don't go off your rocker. I'm giving this kid popcorn—almost under duress, you might say. I bought it and paid for it. You should know.

I bummed the dime from you."

"Ah," said George smoothly, "but the kid happens to be Frankie Lopez and his old man is a striking longshoreman." [full story]

By Wilfred Oka

Support the University Sponsored Swimming Meet

This month a group of Japanese swimmers will perform at the Waikiki War Memorial pool under the sponsorship of the University of Hawaii. Chairman of the meet is popular and amiable Iwao Miyake who was responsible in a great measure for straightening out the tangled mess in the athletic department at the Manoa institution. A man with a scientific mind, Miyake has accepted the job of putting over the swimming meet.

Miyake has working with him a committee composed of Takeo Yoshioka, well known travel agent, Barry Rubin of the Associated Students of the U. H. and Jackie Wong of the Alumni Association. This committee may be enlarged by further additions as the occasion may demand. [full story]

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High Points of the Strike Picture

Developments came hot and fast with the 110th day of the waterfront strike. Most important of these include the resumption of negotiations, the $300,000 suit against Territorial officials and 39 members of the Legislature, the Morse-HEC torrid exchange, the famous Fagan statement, etc.

1. Up to press time, negotiations between the ILWU and the seven struck firms, begun on Tuesday following a signed agreement between the parties and after a hot session with the governor, resulted in agreement of the companies to have all strikers return to work without discrimination, with no hiring outside the basic force at Castle & Cooke Terminals, Ltd., hiring of idle McCabe longshoremen, but no employment to strikebreakers.

Another proposal thrown out by the union and now under consideration by the companies calls for the immediate return to work of about 300 men in the outside departments (day hana workers etc.), while the dispute covering the longshoremen is being ironed out. [full story]

Sun Glasses

Sun glasses this year may have on them a little label saying they are "Advertised in American Medical Association Publications," or "Guaranteed by Good Housekeeping," or just "20/20" Consumers Union comments that most such stickers serve the purpose of advertisers rather than the consumers. The "20/20" label, however, is a new one. CU tested 32 pairs of sun glasses (26 brand names) bearing the "20/20" label. Prices ranged from $1.50 to $7.50. [full story]

Editor, Honolulu RECORD

For the past week or so, columns have been written in the daily papers concerning the murder and suicide of the Bartholomews thru the negligence of Capt. Rego of the Police dept.

Now the latest news coming to my attention is that Capt. Rego is asking for disability pension. He was disabled a long time ago and it took two deaths for the police to find out.

As a law-abiding citizen, I'm making a strong protest against any pension for Capt. Rego. From my point of view he should be fined or go to jail, let alone asking for a pension. [full story]

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The Hawaii Employers Council, in taking strong exception to statements made by Senator Wayne Morse on the Hawaiian waterfront strike, denies that it is out of step with modern labor relations practices elsewhere. It also denies that the stevedoring companies are out to "break the union and win the strike" and "want the U. S. government to help them do it."

Interestingly, the Employers Council's letter informs Senator Morse that labor-management relations here are good. It points out that stevedoring wage rates in Hawaii went up from 60 cents an hour in 1940 to the present $1.40. It does not say, however, that the increase came through unionization, which the big employers here fought with every weapon at their disposal. [full story]

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 closed with young Tomekichi Mori attacking President Sometaro Sheba of the Hawaii Shimpo, which was a mouthpiece for the Hawaii Sugar Planters Association during the 1909 strike. The strike had dragged out for a long time and the employers had used every device to break it. The Nippu Jiji, which then was outspokenly pro-strikers, faced government court action, as well as leaders in the Japanese community who were not of the working class. Without a union, supported by other organized workers such as we find today, the Japanese laborers lacked solidarity to win their demands from well-organized, stubborn employers. [full story]

By Frank Marshall Davis

VI. Depression and War: Labor Weakens Itself

I have been forced, reluctantly, to the opinion that when Franklin D. Roosevelt was buried, the intelligence of many of our most powerful labor leaders was laid to rest with him. That is the kindest explanation I know for the suicidal folly that is now official policy of the top national CIO leadership. When the CIO was created about 15 years ago, it was believed that its aggressive, realistic program would liberalize the hidebound AFL conservatives. For a time this was true, but today we find Phil Murray and Co. slipping into the same thought patterns so recently condemned, as typical of Bill Green and associates: This has been a deep disappointment to those of us who looked upon the CIO to give real guidance to the working people.

Currently, the CIO officially backs the double-talking Truman administration with its program for World War III, if necessary, to bail Big Business out of a depression. Murray and his boys have allied themselves with the gigantic trusts and monopolies, thus strengthening the hands of those who have been organized labor's bitterest enemies. At the same time, the CIO has been sinfully weakened as the alliance became stronger. It just doesn't make sense. For it is impossible to strengthen reaction and at the same time fight it. Had the CIO leadership held to its original principles instead of virtually offering the organization as a sitting target for the powerful union busters who have master-minded the nation's brink-of-war program, we would have no Taft-Hartley law nor the divisive Red-baiting tactics which so weaken organized labor that it cannot adequately protect itself from outside attacks. [full story]