Demo Precinct Records Vanish

Akau Won't, Benz Can't Show Lists To S-B Reporter

The sad state of disintegration of the Democratic Party was revealed this week when a Star-Bulletin reporter set out to compile a list of Oahu precinct club officers. To accomplish what would seem a simple task, Reporter Richard Gima has spent a whole week. The end is not yet in sight. "It's a hell of a way to do business," said a Democrat who has held high elective office, "but I guess that's the way we're doing it."

Sharing the brunt of the responsibility were John K. Akau, Jr., county committee secretary, and David Benz, secretary of the central committee, who has already announced his intention of resigning.

Most Democrats have helped

Gima, he says, but when he went to the source where he expected to get the most help, John K. Akau, Jr., secretary of the county committee, he got "bawled out" and he got no help at all.

No more productive was a visit to David Benz who said he has never had such records.

Mitsuyuki Kido, former central committee secretary, says that's a "slight mistake," and that he turned over the records to Benz.

John Akau told Gima the records were the result of his own expenditure of time and money, the reporter said, and did so in a rather huffy manner.

"He kind of bawled me out," said Gima, "but I just laughed it off."

Akau Compiled Own The RECORD called Akau who said he had not meant that ha owned the county committee's records but rather that the records in his possession are those he has compiled because of his own interest over a period of years.

"I didn't get any records in the first place," said Akau, "so I've been using my own material. That's what I meant. But you know what kind of treatment we get from the Star-Bulletin." Mrs. Jean King, county committee secretary who preceded Akau, says she gave him the key to the office and such records as were there, but she says those she received from David Trask, Jr., now on Maui, were far from complete.

Along with many other Democrats, Mrs. King is puzzled by Akau's attitude toward the reporter, and she says she feels it is the duty of the secretary to make any information regarding the party available to the press. "After all, it's public information," she said.

Could Subpoena Records From the C-C prosecutor's office, the RECORD learned that the records are legally public information and that any citizen could show cause and get the order of a circuit court judge to see them. Not wishing to go to that length, Mr. Gima has been spending the past week trudging from club to club interviewing officers.

Among others, he visited Jack Burns, county committee chairman, who says he's all in favor of releasing the records to the press. Mr. Burns assisted Gima from some fragmentary records that had been left with him by David Trask, Jr. Why, the RECORD asked Burns, had he not instructed Akau to give Gima the information he sought? . .

"I was never asked to do that," was Burns' reply. "The matter didn't come up."

Records On Maui? It is the feeling of some Democrats that a number of the records may have disappeared during the period Trask was secretary, or that he may have taken a number of them to Maui. It is re- called that he did not resign as Oahu county committee secretary until some time after he had relocated on the Valley Island.

Wilfred Oka, former county committee secretary, says there were complete records on precinct officers at the time of his administration and that he turned them over to Daniel Inouye, who succeeded him.

Other officials say Inouye did some work to keep the records up to date and that he turned them over to Trask.

Benz Action Improper But whatever Trask's responsibility, a number of the aforementioned Democrats feel David Benz is responsible for the disappearance of one set of records. They point out that all such records are filed first with the central committee secretary and that the comity committee secretary copies these.

Although Benz says he turned over to Trask anything that pertained to the county committee, officials say he acted with gross Impropriety if he turned over the originals of the precinct club records.

"Those are supposed to be in the custody of the central committee," said one official, "and so are those from the outside islands."

All of which indicates a lot of leg work for Mr. Gima, who may be sent to the outside islands to complete a list of officers, Democratic and Republican, for the Territory.

Legal action against last year's officers of the Puerto Rican Civic Association to recover $19,000 missing from the organization's accounts was voted at a membership meeting Oct. 14.

The members, more than 85 of whom were present at the meeting, held at the association clubhouse at the corner of Lanakila and School Sts, also voted to raise money for employing legal counsel to carry out the action, which was seen as a civil suit.

The deficiency, first reported in the RECORD Oct. 4, has been the subject of considerable investigation by the police, who say they have been unable to" produce enough documentary evidence to substantiate criminal charges against the officers of last year, who were responsible for the records.

The membership first learned the money was missing after a meeting last April, after it was found that there was less than $3,000 in the organization's bank account, though the books showed a balance of an amount in the neighborhood of $21,000.

Carmello Lopez, treasurer, who signed the erroneous report, has refused to comment and he has retained Arthur Trask as his attorney Trask also refuses to comment.

Other officers of the club last year, were: Augustin Montiho, president; Alberto Minvielle, first vice president; A. Belen, second vice president; Manuel C. Pagan, secretary; Peter Morales, secretary, and David Rodrigues, auditor.

A number of these men were elected to other positions for the present year.

During the recent sling-load dispute on Honolulu's waterfront between a shipping company and the longshoremen, I tried to measure the progress organized dockworkers have made during the past 15-20 years by recalling some personal experiences.

A decade and a half ago, when I was a stevedore, a ship foreman checked out individual longshoremen or a gang as he pleased. He knew he would have no repercussion from the unorganized workers. Therefore he demanded bigger sling loads of cargo and yelled from the deck into the ship's hold at perspiring longshoremen stripped to the waist or wearing only shorts to speed up the work. Once in a great while a gang would balk and refuse to be pitted against modern machinery. Then the ship foreman barked: "Check out!"

When we were checked out we expected punishment in the form of less work and assignment to handle unclean and hard-to-handle cargo. The other gangs on the ship continued working, forced to pile cargo on lift boards as high as the ship foreman demanded.

Unlike today, the gangs did not stick together. There was no union to hold them together. Among us workers union consciousness did not come automatically. The atmosphere was not hospitable to unionization programs. The employer propaganda in the press had poisoned even the minds of workers, against unions. The big employers everywhere were fighting the Wagner National Labor Relations Act, which they were to defeat years later during the Truman administration, with the Taft-Hartley-Law.

There was no government educational program to let us workers know that a new law, the Wagner Act, had been passed, which gave us protection we had never enjoyed before. This information was not publicized by the employer-controlled dailies.

"Conspiracy" of Yesterday and Today

It was then a "conspiracy" against the stevedoring company to belong to a union. I learned of the term "blacklist" after I had joined the International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union. Among union and non-union stevedores the Big Five's
conspiracy to deny work to pro-union men was commonly discussed. The magnified version of that past "conspiracy," which was an attitude used by employers to intimidate the dockworkers, is today's red-baiting, political frameups, McCarthyism and loyalty oaths that are used to suppress militancy and independent thinking, deny employment to any non-conformist and strike fear into everyone. True, unions had been organized during the favorable climate of the New Deal era, but at present, threats to the existence of militant unions are as real as ever.

Administration Master-Minded by Big Business

Today, on a national scale, the red issue is being used to split major unions. The Truman administration, which is masterminded by representatives of big business, has played a major role in splitting the CIO. The left-wing unions were expelled because they refused to support the Democratic Party or the administration's foreign policy, or both. The CIO and the AFL, worried about a depression, went along on the war program. And in doing so, they have helped to keep the Taft-Hartley Law on the books, an anti-labor legislation which President Truman himself denounced as a slave-labor law but a weapon he has already used nine times to break strikes.

Today, after a few years of the war program that benefits the big financiers and industrialists, more and more of the rank and file workers complain of higher taxes, higher prices and want peace. They are appalled by the corruption among Democratic Party. officials to whom their leaders have latched their unions.

Thus, it becomes a "conspiracy" against the big-business captured government for anyone to call for peace. Harry Bridges was thrown in jail last year for advocating peaceful settlement of the Korean war. The mass protest of Hawaiian sugar workers greatly influenced his release from prison.

The Great Fear Is Depression

A bungling administration makes criticism of corruption, graft, excess profits of big industrialists from the war program, tax amortization to the tune of billions of dollars to these firms, conduct "subversive" to the government. Before our very eyes freedom of the press is being curtailed, because the facts cannot be revealed.

The great fear of an incompetent administration, rife with graft and corruption, is depression. The fear, actually, is not of an attack coming from the Soviet Union. More than a year ago, the administration's propaganda stressed the imminence of Russian attack. Now the propaganda is "security" in arming to the teeth. Peace overtures from the Soviet Union are dismissed as sheer propaganda. There seems to be no fear of attack from abroad as the administration pursues a war program that will reach peak production in a year or more. In the meantime, we are ringing the Soviet Union with military and air bases, all of which are extremely provocative. This is equivalent to the use of Mexico, the Panama Canal and Canada for bases, by any nation hostile to the U. 9.

The most revealing fact showing the administration does not fear foreign attack but depression in a peacetime economy is its aloofness toward civilian defense. There is more interest in throwing weapons into the arms of reactionary regimes which no one actually trusts, merely to keep the war economy going.

Functions Best In Producing To Destroy

People see this particularly as they begin to take more interest in government spending as higher taxes bite off their income. But many are afraid to complain.

In various ways I hear people ask: "What is wrong? "There is something gravely wrong when our government functions best when it is producing to destroy mankind and the goods they create."

In the 30s, a few years after Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office, there was a widespread belief that the New Deal would do away with depression. When I entered the University of Hawaii in 1937, I had such hopes. I felt the starving depression days, when I survived on a bowl of noodles a day in the Aala district when the going was rough, were over.

In 1937, I lived with a family who had helped me in attaining a high school education by finding work for me during the summer months. I had confided to the wife that I wanted very much to continue my education. So one morning in September, she woke me up early and reminded me that the freshmen were taking entrance examinations at the university that week. When the moment came for me to return to the classroom again, I felt old among younger students. The six years that I had knocked around had increased my curiosity about various issues and had changed my outlook, and this helped me to enjoy my two and a half years at the University of Hawaii.

The WPA Had Its Literary and Artistic Facet

I spent some time down on the waterfront, working during weekends and on some week nights when shipping was busy. During the summer months I worked as a longshoreman.

During my freshman year I was fortunate in having a young instructor in English who encouraged reading and tried to teach us how to think. I learned then that the Roosevelt WPA projects on which I worked as a laborer in Pahoa, Puna, had a literary counterpart. New writers with novel approach, with thinking inspired under the New Deal, were producing proletarian literature.

I believe all those who studied under him saw the world in a different prospective, different from what they had seen only a few months before in high schools. There was nothing radical about this instructor. He was intensely interested in making students read and think for themselves.

The Students Lost a Good Instructor

It must have been about the end of my sophomore year that I read in the Hawaii Sentinel, a weekly, that the university regents did not renew the contract of this instructor. The Big Five, which

controlled the regents, had a way of blacklisting or getting rid of faculty members who made students think, not only over what they read for their classes, but of local and world problems in association with various books they picked up in the library. I gradually came to this realization when I observed that quite a few instructors and professors restrained themselves from saying in lectures what they knew to be facts.

I found that professors whose lectures were dry, appeared most sensitive to non-attention. For example, elementary economics was taught by a person whose lecture notes were worn out and faded from years of handling. One day after we had moved into the new social science building, the wind blew in from the window behind him and scattered his notes on the floor. The pages became mixed up. Unable to continue without his notes which he must have used for more than a decade, he dismissed the class.

About the Professors Who Stayed On

This professor rotated his examination questions from year to year, bringing them back in a cycle, so that all any enterprising student had to do was buy the collected set of his questions from former students and study them to make the passing grade. Elementary psychology examinations were handled in the same manner. The examinations were a farce, with honest students who devoted their time to reading the assignments and taking lecture notes often making the poorer grades.

The New Deal was something which students taking elementary economics wanted to know about and would have been interested in. The professor almost never touched on it. Those who had borrowed lecture notes from students who had taken his course, waited for him to crack his jokes, which came at the precise moment and in the same words that he had uttered the year before and in years before that. A large number of students laughed at the exact timing of the jokes which were written in the professor's notebook.

Faculty Members Who Gave Their Courses Meaning

There were refresher courses and lectures, however, and one of them was the study of the cultural history of the western world. This showed the changing process in history, of man from the primitive times to the more modern and complex era.

A course in American literature made me see how writings of a given period reflected the social conditions of the time. Thus, writings of Emerson, Melville, Tom Paine, Drieser and Steinbeck came to have more meaning for me. At that time the social, political and intellectual climate were hospitable to books like John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath or In Dubious Battle.

While at the university I took part annually in raising funds for students in China who were moving inland because of Japanese imperialist aggression. I remember writing a column in the Ka Leo, university newspaper, asking support of the fund drive. In the Oriental Institute library I read of the conditions under which Chinese students studied. There was a description of a place named Yenan in the northwest hinterland of the vast country. Students were studying in caves, I read. I included this information in my column. I did not know that years later I would live in one of those caves in Yenan as a U. S. army personnel.

My Interest In the American South Grows

Activities such as this brought me close to a YMCA secretary who encouraged me to study on the Mainland. Through him I received a scholarship. We chose Georgia. By then I was deeply interested in the South. I had read some writings of Erskine Caldwell. I had become interested in the Negro people. I wanted to major either in sociology or journalism.

During my second year at the university I had become intimate with a Japanese American graduate student. His home was in Hamakua. He was brilliant and made straight "A's" without much difficulty.

He expressed the opinion frequently that people of Oriental extraction did not receive equal opportunities here. He seemed bitter against discrimination. When he worked in a bookstore in town he spoke of the double standard of treatment of white and non-white employes.

Discrimination Drove Some AJAs to Japan

One day he asked me to look at his face carefully.

Do you see any difference in my right and left sides?" he asked.

I did not see any distinguishing features.

"One of these days you will," he said. "I was operated on and a doctor accidentally cut a nerve. Part of my face is paralyzed and it will not age. The other side will."

"Did you sue the doctor?" I asked.

"How can I? He is an influential haole doctor. He gave me a couple of hundred dollars and that was all," he said.

This friend of mine wanted to go to Japan. One of my classmates was thinking of going there also. They explained that there would be no discrimination. In the prewar years, discrimination was greater and where today positions are open to Orientals, formerly they were not.

"You'll get drafted into the army and sent to China," I told my friend.

"But the war won't last forever," he said. "I'm going anyway."

I saw him leave on a ship during the summer of 1940. I told him he should hurry back if he felt that there would be war between the U. S. and Japan. He said he could get ahead in Japan. He would not stay here to fight discrimination and improve conditions.

A few weeks after his departure I sailed for the West Coast, then travelled to Georgia. The YMCA secretary and others suggested that I keep in close touch with them because war with Japan seemed only a matter of time.

Ng Thung Yee, 26, native of Canton, China, has no papers with him to prove it, but U. S. Immigration office officials believe he is a dual citizen and their records show his father was American, his mother Chinese.

Ng, who was sentenced to serve 20 nights in jail last week for vagrancy after he had asked to sleep in the jail and had been refused, is closer to getting his wish—-a return home to China— than he was then. "He'll be able to go," an immigrations officer told the RECORD, "if the British will permit him to enter Hongkong."
                                                                                                           
The Chinese Chamber of Commerce, which is investigating Ng's case to see if it can help him, said there should be little trouble in getting such an entry permit, since it would be issued on a transient basis, allowing Ng to land and proceed on toward home in China.

DPW To Pay Fare

The department of public welfare has indicated that it will foot the bill for Ng's passage if these technical difficulties are cleared up.

Mr. Ng, a spokesman of the chamber said, has no relatives or contacts here who know him very well, and no papers, either Chinese or American, to prove his origin.

He is believed to have entered the U. S. about 1946 and to have come to Hawaii from the Mainland not long after his original entry. In Honolulu, he has held jobs at various places as a waiter.

IMUA's Gibbons Inspires Library Thought-Control

Two trustees of the Burbank, Calif., library to whom the locking of ideas behind bars under the Smith Act is insufficient precaution, suggested that library books in the state of California be labelled "subversive" or "immoral" ' with stickers:

Their proposal, voted down by the California Library Association convention held in San Francisco during the first week in October, also proposed that the stickers adorn the public library shelves, listing pages of books containing "subversive" and "immoral" material.

Imua's Friend Gave Idea

Mrs. Benton Bowling and Jasper U. Teague, trustees of the Burbank library, admitted that they got the thought-control tactics from a Los Angeles anti-Communist magazine, Alert.

The editor of Alert is Edward Gibbons, who was brought here by employer-front organizations during the 1949 waterfront strike to rant over the radio in the attempt to break the strike through red-baiting.

Jenkins Praised Gibbons

The Hawaii Residents Association (IMUA) sponsored Gibbons in a meeting at Roosevelt High School on June 27, 1949. John T. Jenkins, executive secretary |of IMUA, who was master of ceremonies, spoke of Gibbons as a champion of freedom and democracy.

By the time the strike was won by the longshoremen, Gibbons had left, his mumbo-jumbo causing irritation even among employer-controlled publications like the) Star-Bulletin. While Gibbons was on the air, the daily editorialized about the "gibbon" in the Kapiolani zoo which irritated the highly publicized anti-Communist expert.

Ask To Label Authors

The "Alert"-minded trustees of the Burbank library had also called for stickers identifying authors whose names have been mentioned in the attorney general's list of "subversive" organizations or on that issued by the California un-American committee.

In voting down the thought-control proposal, the California Library Association adopted instead, a resolution attacking such book-labelling as contrary to American traditions and goals of American librarianship.

"What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander."

So says a former employe of the Bureau of Internal Revenue regarding the journey to Washington this week of Collector James M. Alsup, allegedly to answer questions regarding the James M. Alsup Collection. Agency which he operates as a private business.

May Face Stiff Music A number of Mainland collectors have already been dismissed as a result of the investigations of a House sub-committee. Two, in Boston and St. Louis, have been indicted for accepting bribes.

Operation in the Honolulu office is generally honest and efficient, employes and ex-employes say, but they feel Mr. Alsup

may have to face some pretty-stiff music because of his collection agency. Merit of the office is generally attributed to the well qualified staff rather than to Alsup, who is a political appointee. "It's a very strict rule," said one, "that employes can't have outside employment and they observe it strictly."

Rigid On Employes The rule is one of Federal civil service, but it is applied to the Bureau of Internal Revenue employes with uneven emphasis. Ownership of stock in liquor or tobacco companies is forbidden. So Is employment of any kind in a place where liquor is served.

One young man, a musician, is reported to have been forced to quit a job where he was playing at night when Mr. Alsup enforced the "no outside employment" rule. Another employe is said to have been told to get rid of stock that did not meet with the office's approval.

Henry Robinson, assistant collector, said the rule about outside employment does not apply to the collector, who is appointed and does not come under civil service regulations. A spokesman at the Alsup Collection Agency would make no statement as to whether or not the agency collects delinquent taxes, except to say that he is sure it does not collect Federal tax accounts It has been reported that the agency does collect delinquent Territorial taxes owed by persons who have gone to the Mainland.

It is known that citizens here have written Rep. Cecil R. King (D), Calif., chairman of the House sub-committee, asking that investigators be sent here to probe alleged practices in the Honolulu office.

MAUI—A plebiscite vote of the people of the county of Maui requesting the Federal government to begin construction of water systems was suggested by Willie Crozier in his letter of Oct. 18 to the board of supervisors.

"You cannot deny that the school children have to take drinking water to school in bottles, that the schools in the upper areas do not have sufficient water to flush the toilets," Mr. Crozier wrote Chairman Eddie Tam of the board. Mr. Crozier sent a letter which he had received from Dale E, Doty, assistant secretary of the Interior Department, to the supervisors. Mr. Doty had informed the former legislator that the subcommittee

on Territories of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee approved a bill to authorize appropriations not to exceed $250,000 annually for eight years to conduct investigations of water resources in Hawaii.

The need now is the construction of water systems and not more surveys, Mr. Crozier wrote Mr. Tam. He asked the chairman and the board to help the people point out to the Interior Department the "dire need for relief now and not to be making more investigations of conditions we already know." Mr. Doty's letter was in answer to an earlier letter from Mr. Crozier, who reminded the Interior Department that the islands import $340,000,000 while exporting $200,000,000.

"The forgotten man today in Hawaii is the farmer or anyone who tries to produce for local consumption ... as that product does not reach the Matson Navigation Co.'s ships . . . and they do not derive the freight charge," he had said in his letter.

Out of the 20 branches operating under the Secretary of Agriculture, Hawaii is miserably ignored, Mr. Crozier said. Aid fop soil conservation goes mainly to the sugar and pineapple industries.

"Under the Production and Marketing Administration, Hawaii's sugar industries are subsidized to the tune of $8,500,000 per year," the Valley Islander wrote. "Do our farmers get any financial assistance from the Production and Marketing Administration?" he asked.

He said that production for home consumption, which would lessen income from freight for Matson, does not get the support of the government. Chief item of assistance people -need in the Territory, Mr. Crozier pointed out, is plentiful and cheap water. He also named canning, pickling, smoking and freezing plants to preserve Hawaiian products. This would place Hawaiian products in a more favorable position to compete with Mainland articles, he informed the Interior Department.

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Iran: Mossadegh's Move In U. S. Watched

Iran, in kicking out Britain, has set off a chain reaction which is spreading to the other oil-rich countries along the Persian gulf—Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia—and is drifting across the Atlantic to Venezuela.

When Iran's Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh appeared before the UN Security Council, it appeared that the net (not gross) profits of $3 to $4 billion a year for U. S. and British oil corporations were at stake.

This week, Premier Mossadegh met with President Truman and other high U. S. officials and. according to news reports, there might be an oil deal being planned so that Britain or the U. S. would not be barred from oil-rich Iran. Sentiment in Iran indicated that any move that would sell Iran's interest down the river would be definitely opposed by the people.

The oil moguls thought, after they had kicked around the Middle Eastern people for years, that they were generous in splitting the swag 50-50 with local potentates. But when Iran threw the 50-50 offer into the waste basket, the former basis of exploiting oil was blown away. U. S. Ambassador Henry F. Grady told Mossadegh that Anglo-Iranian's 50-50 offer meant upping the ante from $40 million to $140 million a year.

This in itself showed how Britain had taken Iran for a sucker and Mossadegh answered: "What's $140 million. When we ran this oil company we're going to get three times that much out of it."

This attitude, which is contagious among colonial countries, is giving Standard of New Jersey and California, Gulf, Texaco and other oil outfits a terrific headache. For the other oil countries will demand similar terms under threat of nationalizing their petroleum.

The New York Times editorialized: "This is not a pleasant thought in the case of Venezuela, which is the second largest producer of oil in the world and by far the largest exploiter."

When it becomes apparent to the people of Venezuela that the military dictatorship is supported by the dollars of U. S.-British oil companies, those companies may find themselves on the outside looking in after the military brass has been kicked out. This would be downright catastrophe for Shell and Standard.

New York Dock Strike: Ryan and Goons Exposed

President Harry Bridges of the ILWU told a press conference in New York last week that the West Coast dockers would refuse to handle any cargoes loaded at strikebound East Coast piers by waterfront racketeer Anthony Anastasia and his strikebreakers,

The rank and file of the International Longshoremen's Association (AFL), run by the racketeer Joe Ryan, refused to accept the contract Ryan arranged with the ship owners. Ryan said that the majority of his 65,000 members ratified the contract but the walkout that tied up the New York and other piers showed plainly that the labor racketeer was lying. The membership wants a new balloting.

The contract signed by Ryan provides for a 10 cents an hour increase. The membership wants 25 cents. The rank and filer's are protesting against the shapeup system where longshoremen are forced to pay off the foremen and union bosses to get a day's work.

Bridges said in New York that the ILA strikers were only doing "what we did on the West Coast in 1934 when Ryan tried to jam a phony settlement down our throats. We ran him off the West Coast and he never got back. If the Bast Coast men stick together, they'll run Ryan right out of his lifetime job as king labor faker of the II. S. and they'll win the decent conditions they deserve. More power to them."

Tax Boost: New Load On Heavy Burden

President Truman, who doesn't seem to be fazed by the corruption in his administration and the graft among his political cohorts, said he was unhappy at the conduct of Congress in not raising taxes higher. But the small income earners in particular were most unhappy and the hardest hit by the 11.75 per cent increase in personal income tax and the hike in excise or sales taxes.

AS TRUMAN signed the $5,691,000,000 tax increase bill, he prepared to ask Congress next year for a higher levy. He had asked $10,000,000,000 in tax hike.

The new tax formula will take an additional $20 from a single person making $1,500. For those earning $2.000 the boost will be $31; $3,000—$54; $5,000—$108; $8,000—$212; $10,000—$292; $15,000—$520; $25,000 —$1,144.

Those in the higher income brackets will get a break. For example, single persons earning more than $28,000 a year or married couples earning more than $56,000 would be permitted to pay an 11.75 increase on their present taxes or a 9 per cent hike on their take home pay after taxes.

The excise taxes include one cent on a pack of cigarettes; half a cent on a gallon of gasoline and 26 cents on a fifth of whisky. Increase on beer and wine will be 121/2 per cent and on new cars 3 per cent.

The nation's big corporations which have waxed fatter than ever showed whose powerful influence was behind the tax bill. Corporations will get an excess profits tax "credit" of 83 per cent of their earnings for the best three of the four years in the 1946-49 period.

The cooperative organizations, many of which are formed by groups of small producers and consumers, will now be taxed on the regular corporate rate on undistributed earnings. Up to now these organizations could keep up to 12. per cent of their earnings in reserve without paying a tax. Included among the cooperative groups are mutual savings banks, building and loan associations and all cooperatives.

Egypt: People Want Imperialists To Go

British forces occupied the Suez Canal area while Egyptians throughout their country demonstrated against western imperialism. Egyptian police, who are under the thumb of imperial Britain, rushed to defend the American and British embassies in Cairo as students, laborers and professors shouted that the foreigners must leave their land.

Following on the heels of Iran's action that booted British oil exploiters out of her borders, Egypt's present move strongly brought out that the Middle East nations are rising to free themselves from age-old foreign domination.

Demonstrations in Egypt followed Prime Minister Mustapha El Nasha Pasha's denunciation of the garrisoning of British troops in Egypt and the Anglo-Egyptian treaty which works in Britain's favor.

To take the wind out of the Egyptian demands for sovereignty, the U. S. proposed that Egypt join the Western alliance against the Soviet Union and communism. This was flatly turned down by the Egyptian parliament.

The United Press from Cairo reported October 23 that demonstrators in the city chanted "Long Live Russia." A UP dispatch of a few days earlier reported that one of the influential newspapers in Egypt editorially suggested the extending of a friendly hand to Russia.

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Demo, GOP Heads in Scandalous Influence Padding; Boyle Pleads Ill Health, Resigns

Washington (FP) — With Democratic and Republican party leaders worried about the sensational revelations of the alliance between crime and politics made by the Senate crime investigating committee and the wave of scandals involving "undue" influence on government agencies by political big-shots, it appeared Oct. 16 that resignations would be the cure-all.

William M. Boyle, Jr. already had submitted his resignation as chairman of the Democratic National Committee after being involved in a Senate investigation of undue influence on the Reconstruction Finance Corp., a government agency, to make loans to party friends.

Gabrielson Got 181/2 Million

Eight Republican senators and a group of representatives of the same political faith were demanding that, Guy George Gabrielson, chairman of the Republican National Committee, do likewise. Gabrielson also was involved in the Senate undue influence Investigation when it was revealed the Carthage Hydrocol Co., which he heads, obtained an RFC loan of $181/2 million.

The executive committee of the Republican National Committee, apparently believing Gabrielson's declaration that it was ridiculous to believe a Republican could influence a loan by a Democratic administration, gave him a vote of confidence.

But the eight GOP senators and their congressional colleagues were not satisfied. They demanded resignation.

"Both party chairmen," said Sen. Homer Ferguson (R., Mich.), "should be like Caesar's wife—beyond suspicion."

Boyle's Sudden Ill-Health

Boyle in his letter of resignation to President Truman, said he did! not feel physically able to conduct the Democratic campaign in 1952. He entered Georgetown University hospital for observation.

But his physical state apparently had not entered the picture a few days earlier when he told the Senate committee he had no intention of resigning.

Boyle, like Truman, got his start in political life under the Tom Pendergast machine in Kansas City, Mo., which came in for a lot of attention from the Senate crime committee.

He has been given credit for thinking up Truman's "whistle stop" campaign of 1948 when the President "gave 'em hell." He was given credit for swinging Illinois and Ohio into the Truman column, though he was not a party official at the time.

With Truman and Gangster

In February 1949, he was made executive vice chairman of the national committee without pay and continued his Washington law practice. Criticism began to mount because Boyle as a lawyer, would be in position to influence key government personnel for his clients. He was paid a substantial salary then and sold his law practice. Later, he succeeded J. Howard McGrath as party chairman at a salary reported to be $35,000 a year.

In September 1949, Truman flew to Kansas City to address a $15-a-plate dinner in honor of Boyle. Other guests included James M. Pendergast, nephew of Tom; Charles Bimmagio, an underworld figure later murdered during a grand jury investigation of crime, and President Robert J. Blauner of American Lithofold Corp.

Recently the Senate investigating committee has been looking into charges by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that Boyle received $8,000 from American Lithofold after the firm had been granted a $565,000 RFC loan.

John E. Toole, former treasurer of the company, testified Boyle had intervened on behalf of the company after it had twice been turned down on an $80,000 loan request. He said the company got the money after Boyle phoned Harley Hise, head of RFC, that some friends of Jim Finnegan were interested in a loan. The Finnegan referred to was James P. Finnegan, former collector of internal revenue at St. Louis, recently indicted on charges of bribery and misconduct in office.

The 1951 recession "was a real and painful thing to a lot of businessmen," Business Week reported Sept. 8. "It carried the Federal Reserve index of industrial production down to 213, the lowest point in 10 months. It wiped out a lot of paper profits all the way from retailer to raw material producer."

Two-thirds (65 per cent) of all the liquid assets in this country are held by the top tenth of the nation's families. The lower half holds 1 per cent of the savings, according to the Federal Reserve Board.

Sixty-eight percent of all U.S. families received less than $4,000 income last year. But the standard Heller budget for a wage earner's family of four required at least $4,275 in that year.

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A new burlesque house opened recently at 1110 Maunakea St., then closed, and is presently sporting a "Watch for Grand Opening" sign on its windows. The first "Grand Opening" had been advertised extensively by handbills as well as by other means.

The reason for the spasmodic start lies in the C-C prosecutor's office and in the department of buildings at City Hall.

"They didn't comply with the regulations about safety from fire," said Edward Fong of the department of buildings. "We gave the case to the prosecutor's office two weeks ago." Specifically, the house had too few fire exits.

Prosecutor Allen Hawkins said: "If they open again, we'll close them up. They haven't been running, have they?"

Grand Opening Waits Until the owner of the new house, Roland Borck, also operator of the Borck Amusement Co. on Hotel St., provides sufficient exits for his customers in case of fire, it's likely the grand opening will be delayed.

Borck rented the space, it is reported, from the Chinatown Grill next door and remodeled it into a burlesque theater. But he failed to apply for a building permit, and he began operations without the proper approval of the fire marshal or the department of buildings.

Technically, a punishable violation has already been committed. Prosecutor Hawkins said, but he doubts that it will be prosecuted unless there is a further violation. "But if the building department wants to prosecute," he said, "all they have to do is come up and swear out a warrant."

The Territory's largest union local began balloting this week, Oct. 15, to choose 54 officers in its annual election.

Seventy-six members are competing for the positions in the ILWU Local 142 (consolidated sugar and pineapple workers) and the election will close Oct. 30. Twenty-eight of the 54 officers will be fulltime union employes. They are the president, vice president and secretary-treasurer on the Territorial local level; four division directors and 21 business agents on the island level. Division" Directors Unopposed

Candidates and their positions follow:

For president, Antonio Rania; vice president, Constantine Samson; secretary-treasurer, Toyomasa Oshiro and Newton Miyagi; trustee-at-large (non-fulltime), Yasuki Arakaki.

For division directors, formerly known as division vice presidents, George Martin, Hawaii; Thomas Yagi, Maui County (Maui, Lanai and Molokai); Justo dela Cruz, Oahu; Mitsuo Shimizu, Kauai. All are unopposed.

For business agents on Hawaii, District "A," Wataru Kawamoto and Wenceslao See, both unopposed; District "B", Sotero C. Antonio, Alfred Borero, Frank Luiz, William Matsu and Kanichi Oba are competing for two positions. Pine, Sugar Represented

District "C" business agent candidates running for three positions are Nick Abarcar, Tony Baruso, Pascual Cabico, Albert De Luz, Carl Fukumoto, Faustino Roldan and Yoshito Takamine.

Candidates for Maui County business agents competing for five positions are Augustine (Chick) Baptiste, Amador del Castillo, Kameo Ichimura, August Pimental, Toribio Tuzon and Tai Sung Yang from the sugar industrial grouping. From the pine industrial grouping, Pedro dela Cruz and

Reno (Gaga) Colotario are candidates.

Business agent candidates for Oahu are Jose Corpuz, Takeshi (Turkey) Ishihara, Eddie Lapa, Tony Pavao, Nick Sibolboro, Shisu Toma. A total of five will be elected.

Kauai business agent nominees are Robert Kunimura, Frank Silva, T. C. Manipon and Atanacio Migia.

Local Executive Board

Running for 21 seats on the important local executive board, a newly created, important rank and file body, are the following candidates: Hawaii, six to be elected —Eugenio Acedo, Ellas Domingo, Filomeno Fuerte, Hiroshi (Thunder) Fukuhara, Yoshiaki Ichinose, Shigeyuki Nakatani, Kenji (Sleepy) Omuro and Murphy Tadakawa.

Maui County division, sugar grouping, four to be elected: Isao Agawa, Julian Cabalo, Pepito Ragasa, Satoru Tamane, Kazuyoshi (Blackie) Tokuoka and Eddie Ujimori. Pine grouping, two to be elected: Andre Andaya, Mariono Capalato, Jerimias Domingo, Nobuo Furukawa, Takeo Kawahara, Modesto Saguibo, Susumu Sakaida, Thomas Tagawa and Eugenio Trugillo.

Oahu division, sugar grouping, three to be elected: Chieto (Fred) Sakai. Pine grouping, two to be elected: Yoshio (Manu) Iwane.

Kauai division, four to be elected: Constancio Alesna, Sabas Blas, Isidro Pilien, John B. (Jerry) Smith.

Trustees

Candidates for division trustees are: Hawaii—Masami Nagasako and Masaichi Tanoue; Maui—Hideo (Husky) Kamimoto; Oahu— None; Kauai—Haruo (Dyna) Nakamoto.

Five positions will be filled by the Local Steering Committee, since no nominations were received. These are: Three Oahu local executive board members, two from sugar and one from pine;

one Oahu trustee and one business agent from among the. membership on Kauai.

Unit elections will be conducted, starting next month, to elect officers and convention delegates for 1952.

On June 4, 1951, the U. S. Supreme Court upheld the conviction of 11 Communist leaders under provisions of the Smith Act by a 6-2 decision. The six justices blacked out the First Amendment to the Constitution which guarantees all Americans the freedom of speech, press and religion in this case and their upholding of the Smith Act threatens the liberties of all Americans.

Various newspapers, individuals and organizations, including numerous trade unions, spoke up against the Smith Act and the decision of the highest tribunal. . The Catholic Worker, June 1951, said editorially:

Supreme Expediency

"A Supreme Court which has become more and more callous to American freedom, has upheld the conviction of the eleven Communist leaders. A Supreme Court whose Chief Justice did not vote once in favor of the individual and against the state in split decisions on civil liberty during his first year in office counts only two men—Black and Douglas—who have the courage to speak out against hysteria and for the rights of man."

Little Children Made To Pay Cost of "Operation Killer" from Basic Needs

Seattle (FP)—A demand that Federal authorities declare the state of Washington a disaster area because tens of thousands of social security recipients, including 17,000 children, face immediate hunger, came from the Washington Pension Union.

The organization acted as literally scores of anguished mothers, unable to buy necessities because of drastically reduced aid to dependent children's grants, sought to give up their children to private welfare agencies as a last-resort measure.

Man-Made Famine

"Emergency aid is forthcoming, and properly so, whenever flood, fire or earthquake strikes part of the U. S.," said Mrs. Sara Jackson, newly elected Pension Union vice president. "The situation here today is approaching that of a man-made famine of terrible proportions. We are insisting that the Federal government heed the pitiful cries of hungry children and act immediately."

Families receiving help under the aid to dependent children program had their grants cut 25 per cent below minimum needs as figured by the state social security program last June. Then in September the slash was increased to 40 per cent below need. Jobless persons on general assistance have been cut 45 per cent, and totally disabled workers 37 per cent since Sept. 1.

Billions for Armament

Since rent, utilities and other living cost items are fixed, the percentage reductions in grants actually mean far deeper slashes in the amount of funds available for food, Mrs. Jackson pointed out. An example: One Seattle mother had $10 left for food for herself and her three children after she had paid her rent, fuel, light and other bills.

Mrs. Jackson bitterly denounced the continued flood of billions of tax dollars to armaments. "Little children are being made to pay the cost of Operation Killer in Korea out of the very bone and blood in their growing bodies," she charged.

Big Demand for Lamb Stew As Beef Prices Keep Going Skyward

Lamb stew meat at the Halawa Housing supermarket is in great demand and it soon sells out, a clerk told a, customer recently.

"People buy lamb stew at forty-nine cents a pound and the other meat don't sell. That probably is the reason for us not having lamb stew all the time. We haven't had it for a few days now," she said.

A couple of housewives looked at beef stew meat at 99 cents a pound.

"Too high. Everything is so high," one of them complained as they walked away.

Joseph J. Iseke no longer gets the bill for $15.70 from the C-C division of refuse disposal that he got every quarter since 1948. Since the RECORD story August 9, reporting how he had once protested the high cost of garbage collection and got a bill reduced from $30 to $15, the bill has come to his 922 Hala Drive home no more.

But that isn't stopping Mr. Iseke. Before, as the RECORD reported, he challenged Llewellyn "Sonny" Hart to take the bill to court for collection. Now that it has quit coming, he wants to know why.

"I'm going to investigate," he says, "because I want my affairs cleared up. If I don't owe the money, I want someone to say so. If I do owe the city anything, I want to pay my bill. I'm not through."

In the meantime, he continues to take care of his own garbage as he has since that disagreement in 1948.

About one million of the 5.1 million agricultural workers in the U. S. are migratory.

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Aku is up to 25 cents a pound at the Commercial Fishermen's Cooperative, across Ala Moana Blvd. from Fisherman's Wharf, and if you don't go fairly early in the day, you may not get yours. But elsewhere in Honolulu, the price-dropping cooperative venture has had the effect of forcing the price down from 40 cents where it stood a few weeks ago, despite the abundance of fish in what fishermen call the biggest catches in local history. There is still plenty, but the catch is past its peak and Tuesday at 10 a. m., men at the cooperative were waving customers away with a "sold out" gesture.

Buying Builds Up "You get used to the customers and their demands," said one of the men, "so that you know which days the rush will be. It builds up through the week."

Monday is fairly slow, he said, and sometimes no more than 500 pounds are sold. Tuesday the buying is faster, Wednesday it's faster yet and by Thursday the business is booming.

"Everybody builds up toward Friday," he said. "Then we could sell 3,000 pounds if we had it."

Co-Op Solution

William "Commander Bill" Kanakanui, who was present, voiced the opinion that the cooperative is the real answer to the marketing problems of independent fishermen.

The past tradition has been for markets to play one fisherman against another, Kanakanui said, and keep the price down for all. And there should be nothing to prevent the Honolulu consumer from getting fish at a rate lower than 40 cents a pound. "Here on an island surrounded by an ocean full of fish," Kanakanui said, "it's absurd for us to pay higher prices for aku than they do in the Middle West. But that's been the tradition."

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Washington (FP)—A sharp telegram from President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers, protesting an anti-union reign of terror in Kentucky brought a promise October 9 from Gov. Lawrence Wetherby that state police would investigate.

Lewis listed the attempt to murder two UMW officials and the dynamiting of a union hall as incidents climaxing a long reign of terror in Leslie and Clay counties which followed UMW attempts to organize 3,000 miners in the strongly anti-union, company dominated counties.

Men Lured By Phone "On Saturday, Oct. 6," Lewis telegraphed the governor, "an attempt was made to assassinate Tom Raney, a member of the international executive board of our union, and Carl Conley, special organizer for District 30."

Union officials said the two men were lured by a telephone call to a country store near Hyden, Ky., where their car was riddled with bullets from a submachine-gun.

"The shots were fired from a car in which three men were riding," the Lewis telegram continued.

"The attempted assassination was witnessed by at least five persons.

Other Incidents

"On Oct. 1, the union hall at which members of the UMW from Leslie county had been meeting, was dynamited in the night. In addition to these outrages, as stated above, there have been numerous other incidents of similar character.

"The UMW is informed and believes that these acts have been committed to prevent the mine-workers of Leslie and Clay counties from exercising their rights to become members of the UMW.

"It is suggested that a complete and thorough investigation be made by your office to determine the persons responsible for these acts of lawlessness and to see that they are prosecuted in accordance with the laws of the state of Kentucky.

"May we not hope that the law-enforcing agencies of Kentucky will move to the abatement of this terrorism and the safeguarding of life, property and civil rights in the two counties aforementioned?"

When a public opinion canvasser for the Territorial Surveys recently asked workers at Ewa Plantation Co. what they thought of the union and the company, she heard some pretty strong statements. A canvasser visiting the Filipino camp asked: "Are the bosses in Ewa good?" "Do the bosses try to break the union?"

"You don't have many ways of answering such pointed questions," said a worker. "Some of the brothers were a little scared about saying what they thought so I told them not to be afraid. We have the union."

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A JAPANESE foreman at Ewa told Felix Inez that the company can produce sugar without Filipino laborers.

"This made me angry," he said. "But I only asked him, 'What kind of kaukau you eat to growl like that?'"

Standing on his rights as a union member, Inez told the foreman's superior what he thought of such remarks. The same could be said of the Japanese or anyone, he said. And who brought the laborers here? he asked.

Sometime later Inez met the foreman again and he began telling the latter that both of them work for a living and that the union's fight for better wages arid conditions brought benefits to the foreman. Before he could say a few other things which he had in mind, the foreman asked him to forget the incident. He then apologized.

"That's because we have the union," Inez explained.

* * Ewa Plantation was one of the sugar companies that boasted high profits last year and it announced through the newspapers that it was going to improve the slum housing. The work is going on slowly. Unsanitary conditions prevail in the Filipino camp, which is right off the main highway going to Barbers Point. The Territorial board of health can certainly step on the management's toes and help bring about some improvements.

About three hundred yards away from this worst of plantation slums is the mansion of the Ewa manager. The setup certainly is medieval and the workers deserve decent treatment.

"In that connection, she said that the Negro race was as good as the whites and entitled to the same privileges."

That is the substance of the testimony which enabled a husband who had admitted everything from forgery to desertion to take a son away from a mother who had taught that son to believe all men are created equal. And the decision, made by ah Oklahoma judge, was upheld by a California judge, The quotation is from the testimony of the boy's grandfather in his successful effort to show that Mrs. Jean Field, who had supported her two children for 11 years, was an "unfit mother."

No American Precedent The case, unprecedented in American legal history, is one presently under appeal by the mother, and being fought by the Jean Field Committee, 5010 Sunset Blvd., Room 9, Los Angeles, Calif.

Mrs. Field's story begins in 1940, three weeks after the birth of her daughter, when she awoke one morning to discover her husband had deserted her, leaving the following note: "I no longer want the responsibility of a wife and two children, so here it is in your lap. Sorry, but that's the way it is."

Left Wife Three Cents Vernon Field had left his wife, still under a doctor's care, with exactly three cents and in a home barren of food. Later he fled the state of Oklahoma to escape arrest for signing a fictitious name to a check.

A year later, he discovered one use for his deserted family— to try dodging the draft. He claimed exemption on the grounds that he was supporting all three, but when the draft board asked the mother, she was compelled to answer that his entire contribution hart been $6, though a court order had required him to pay $30 a month. In 1947, Vernon Field married his first cousin and began to send the $30, but he would never correspond with his children, as their mother requested of him—she had never told them of their father's desertion.

Field's grandmother did visit the children in California, to where Mrs. Jean Field had moved, and she encouraged the young mother to let the children visit in Oklahoma during their summer vacation. Early in 1950, when the young Mrs. Field found she was going to have to undergo surgery and a period of convalescence arid at the request of the grandmother, she sent the children to Oklahoma.

Not long after their arrival, the Korean war broke out and 14-year-old Jay called his mother to find out what she thought about it. She wrote him that she thought American troops should be withdrawn—that the U. S. had no right in Korea—but those letters were never given him. The next advice Mrs. Field got was a letter from an Oklahoma legal firm with a document asking "petition to change custody."

Begged To Go Home Mrs. Field left for Oklahoma 17 days later and managed to visit her children only after obtaining a writ of habeas corpus. The children told her of conditions of indescribable filth in their father's home, of eating irregularly and wearing clothes long in need of laundering, and they begged to be taken back to California.

The mother took them—in contempt of court—and after a month Field appeared with an Oklahoma deputy and resultant charges of child-stealing were filed against the mother.

Gov. Earl Warren refused to extradite Mrs. Field on that charge, writing that he saw no reason to favor a husband who had contributed to his children's support only when "compelled to do so by an army allotment."

Regardless of Gov. Warren's stand, Judge Harold W. Schweitzer of the Los Angeles superior court, read Mrs. Field's letter opposing the war in Korea, heard the testimony that proves she opposes racial discrimination.

That testimony, from the children's grandfather, was to the effect that Jay had spoken with distaste of Oklahoma's jim crow laws and that he had praised Negro ballplayers. Judge Schweitzer apparently agreed with the grandfather that such views "should be corrected at once." He refused to take issue with the Oklahoma decision giving Vernon Field custody of the children he had deserted.

But Mrs. Field and the Committee, made up of people who see a dangerous precedent in the case, are even now attempting to return the case to Oklahoma for retrial on the grounds that her evidence was not heard and that the evidence given by the father was fraudulent.

"This year, our national income will approach $250,000,000,000. Let me ask you to compare that with $38,000,000,000 in 1932," said Vice President Barkley in a recent speech.

As Mr. Barkley made the statement, the government reported the results of a survey that showed 101/2 million families in the U. S. lived on less than $2,000 last year, and many children are included in these families. Big business, on the other hand, raked in record profits, also according to government reports.

The Puunene school has a fire hydrant but no fire hose. Even if it had a fire hose, it would be of no use because there is no water.

When this situation was pointed out to Supervisor Manuel Rodrigues by the RECORD, he promised to look into it as a public servant. Thus far, he has nob served the public in this matter and he has not seen Fire Chief Alexander Oana. Cheered by Mr. Rodrigues' promise, some Puunene residents were waiting for action on his part. The fire hazard is still there.

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Certain department heads in the Maui county government have overstaffed their kuliana. This is causing comments right in the county building, and the talk goes that the "taxpayers" are footing the bill. Why not employ people in offices that need more employes, rather than allow some to increase their staff with hopes of getting higher classification? A few interested politlcos were pondering on this the other day.

Some department heads make trips to Honolulu for private or semi-private business and not on county business. This is a matter also discussed by county employes themselves.

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Employees at Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. were surprised to find J. E. Milligan, industrial relations director for the company, not eager to monopolize the talking during the recent meeting with union representatives of Local 142. Usually he keeps firing away, but on Oct. 22, when union members, with ILWU Regional Director Jack Hall met Milligan, the company's industrial relations man seemed to have lost his ego. A union member chuckled that Milligan must be very unhappy, forced to suppress himself in such a manner.

The grievance involved the company's splitting the shifts so that, a gang works from Monday through. Friday and another from Tuesday through Saturday Workers, involved are in the machine shop, welding shop and electrical department.

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Have County Chairman Eddie Tam and Rep. Kaneo Kishimoto split their working relationship as far as politics go? Reports from Honolulu say that Kishimoto may oppose Tam in the next election.

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Are the Democrats trying to give Eddie Tam the early jitters? Supervisors Shigeru Miura and John Bulgo are rumored to run for the county chairmanship, and so is Manuel Asue, unsuccessful candidate in the last election. All these men are Democrats. * *

Willie Crozier told the RECORD that he will definitely run for the senate during the next election. Others whose names are mentioned as potential candidates for the upper house are Rep. Dee Duponte, Supervisor Shigeru Miura and David Trask, Jr.

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At Kodak Hawaii, a company with a reputation for better treatment of its employes than most here, they have an arrangement which makes any invention made by an employe while on the job the property of the company for the sum of $1. Some may say that's eminently fair, since the company is paying for the man's time and furnishes the equipment with which the invention may be made. Others, eyeing the huge profits that often derive from such inventions, see the dollar compensation as only one more illustration of the inequity of a situation in which the company, merely by having money, exploits the brains and industry of the people who actually do the work.

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"Russian Agent" was the name one of the Kodak Hawaii bosses had for an employe who questioned various of the company's policies some time ago. In spite of the company's paternalism, it has bosses who use the same red smear tactics as toughed companies when a worker expresses his doubts militantly.

Which reminds one of the dialogue reported from California during the organization of farm workers some years ago.

"What's a Red?" one puzzled employer is said to have asked a colleague.

"A Red," answered the other, "is anyone who wants more money than we want to pay."

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Coca-Cola, HRT and OR&L, according to a man who has driven many types of vehicles and applied for many jobs, won't take men of more than 35 years of age. "If you're finished at 35," asks the applicant, "are you supposed to lie down and die?"

All of which reminds this department of "Soupbone," well known docks guard for Castle & Cooke, who was discharged by HRT after a company doctor told him he wouldn't live another year. That was 20 years ago and "Soup-bone" worked for Castle & Cooke until recently, when he was again retired.

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A C-C worker got what he felt was a strange rebuff last week when a Community Chest collector rejected an offer of 75 centsand told him, the worker says, that nothing less than $1 contributions were being accepted. That kind of thinking was borne out by a Red Feather broadcaster who complained of "small givers," of whom he said there were 40,000. The broadcast created a little resentment, too, among some small givers who said they feel they are already being asked to give for services which should be governmental instead of charity functions.

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Big gambling games among Kauai County officials are due for an expose one of these days, especially if there are many more incidents like the one recently in which a well known restaurant proprietor dropped several thousand dollars to the public servants.

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Reuben Ohai, proprietor of the Blue Lei dancehall and the Valley House, not far from Kapaa. is reported to have stimulated business considerably by a recent importation of 23 Mam-land girls who work as hostesses, waitresses and B-girls.

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Tongues Wag on the Garden Island, too, of a lady who induced a prominent man to finance her as proprietor of a bar and has since come to such a split with him that she won't allow him inside the place.

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Lawyer Ed Herman has all but collapsed, according to reports, in the face of the possible perjury charge he faces as a result of the contradiction between his volunteer testimony before the House un-American Activities Committee a year and a half ago and that of another volunteer, Jack Kawano, more recently. Berman, who has been violently and volubly "anti-Communist" ever since his admission to the bar, volunteered to tell the committee on its appearance here, that he had never been a Communist. Kawano said Berman recruited him into the Communist party.

Thus the peculiar spectacle is presented of two men, once active in the labor movement, now out to smear that same movement and at extreme odds with each other. The Department of Justice, faced with the possibility that one of its witnesses may be proved a liar by an extremely articulate "anti-Communist," has filed no charge of perjury against either Berman or Kawano. It never stalled so long in the cases of Carl Marzani, former State Department employe, or Harold Christoffel, union leader. They were convicted and sent to prison on testimony less direct.

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Our nomination for the saddest song of the moment—Nat King Cole's "You're Okay for TV." A singer with plenty of style, whatever you many think of his voice, Nat makes this one sound like the time-worn pass of a phony movie "tycoon" at some good-looking young girl—only this time, the promise is the new medium, television. This one's way below the King Cole standard.

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Chief Liu, one reader points out, isn't very consistent in the pronouncements he makes about the police department. When Rudy Eskovitz and the HGEA were competing to organize the police, Chief Liu contradicted Charles Kendall to say morale was as high as it had ever been. A couple of months later, he said morale was suffering because the civil service department hadn't come up with its promised re-classification and wage raises. Now morale might conceivably have dropped in that period, but the reclassification work was originally to have been done THREE months ago.

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Liberty House has space of its own so business people on Bethel St. wonder why its delivery trucks consistently park in loading zones there.

Washington (FP)—Mobilization Director Charles E. Wilson disagrees with Emil Rieve, president of the Textile Workers Union and chairman of the CIO economic committee, about the tragic state of reconversion unemployment.

In a letter replying to one in which Rieve criticized the mobilization program's lack of planning, Wilson said: "While we must always strive to keep unemployment to a minimum, I cannot agree that the waste of manhours and of plant capacity has yet approached tragic proportions." Wilson said he could not follow Rieve's suggestion that civilian production be kept going until military production takes up employment slack because "we are now using all available metals."

Nearly 17 million American families (32 per cent) spent more than their incomes last year.

The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor, founded in. 1869, was headed by a Philadelphia garment cutter, Uriah S. Stephens. He said its goal was "the complete emancipation of wealth producers from the thraldom and loss of wage slavery."

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Washington (FP)—As the Defense Department announced latest Korean casualties—1,732 in one week raised the total to 89,382 —the State Department said the U. S. government had paid the South Korean government $12,155,714.

The State Department said the payment Was for South Korean currency made available for personal use of the U. S. armed forces and was "without prejudice" to other huge claims being pressed by the South Korean government.

First success of the 10-hour day movement came in 1840, when President Martin Van Buren issued an executive order introducing the shorter day in "all public establishments."

Who will benefit most from the Kalihi or the Nuuanu tunnel? In tackling this problem, one would get a pretty good idea as to how the project should be paid for to a large extent.

A businessman in Honolulu has a very good suggestion. He has thought this matter over carefully. He has listened to arguments on financing the tunnel, either Kalihi or Nuuanu, and knows of the big farce at the last legislature where the Dillinghams wanted the Kalihi tunnel and the Harold Castle lobbyists cornered legislators for the Nuuanu tunnel.

Now, the Dillinghams, Harold Castle, the McCandless Estate and other land monopolists have big holdings on the other side of the Pali, a great amount of tracts still unimproved. The land will not stay unimproved long, once the tunnel projects get started.

Dillingham, McCandless and others should all foot the bill. Harold Castle would take the Kalihi tunnel rather than no tunnel at all.

Today, these land monopolists pay small taxes. Once a spokesman for Mr. Castle told city officials and hog raisers at the City Hall that the landlord would not sell his land as long as Uncle Sam taxes his profits. The land was gotten for a song, he admitted, so taxes would be high.

Help Mr. Castle change the tax laws by memorializing Congress, this spokesman said.

The Territory should tax these thousands of acres at a higher rate and thus finance the tunnel project. This is fair. This might bring about another good thing. The land monopolists might sell part of their holdings to the land-hungry people.

Harry Bridges says that what the longshoremen on the East Coast are fighting for today is what the dockers on the West Coast did in 1934. That was when labor Racketeer Joe Ryan tried to ram a phony contract down the throats of the western stevedores.

Ryan was subsequently run off the West Coast. Out of the labor struggles to better conditions, to wipe out the racketeering shapeup and equalize earnings, the ILWU was born. The ILWU won the hiring hall while on the East Coast dockers still have to gamble, pay off and commit crimes to get hired on the job by gangster foremen under Ryan's thumb.

The Star-Bulletin played up a story that Ryan's goon squads were planning to scab and muscle in on the ILWU on the West Coast. With his own union repudiating him on the East Coast, Racketeer Ryan's boast is laughable. And even in normal times, for Ryan, such an undertaking would be far-fetched.

Playing up a story in such a manner, as though the ILWU is threatened by Racketeer Ryan is an insult to the intelligence of its readers, and especially to longshoremen here.

(Ed. Note—The following is an editorial published in the Independent November 19, 1897. It was written by Edmund Norrie)

A few days ago a batch of newly arrived Japanese laborers were sent to Ewa, having been shipped by the plantation of that name. The men were evidently ignorant (of Hawaiian methods) and one of the number actually resented being beaten and finally, having his arm broken by a foreign luna. A Japanese who will complain over a trifle like a fractured limb is not suitable to work on any Hawaiian plantation. The man referred to did even more than complaining, and being backed . by eighty of his countrymen, he adopted heroic measures and started out looking for a warrant for the arrest of his assailant.

Injured Laborer, 80 Others Caged

No warrant has been issued so far. On the contrary, the laborer with the broken arm and his eighty followers have been caged and were to have a hearing today at Ewa. The circumstances surrounding the case deserve public attention, as a good illustration of plantation life in Hawaii.

As stated, a Japanese laborer shipped by the Ewa plantation, claims that he was assaulted by an overseer who fractured his arm. The Jap, who has arrived recently and does not understand English, was advised by his more experienced countrymen to call upon the district judge and appeal to the strong hand of the Hawaiian law. The poor devil was, of course, prohibited from leaving the plantation by his white "bosses."

Then he got angry, and after a palaver with his "gang," all decided to quit work and go to Honolulu to see the representative of their government. Eighty Japanese set out for Honolulu but were stopped at Pearl City by employes of the plantation who started to reason with the men. In the meantime, the agents of the Ewa-Sugar Company, Messrs. Castle & Cooke, had been apprised of the trouble, and at their request, Mr. Chester Doyle, the official court interpreter of the Japanese language, proceeded to Ewa to investigate and, if possible, prevent further disturbances.

Ewa Manager Was the Law

Mr. Doyle has had great experience in dealing with Japanese laborers "on strike," and at Pearl City he called the men together and explained to them that they were committing an unlawful act by leaving work to follow their injured comrade, and that they ought to return to the plantation at once, while the man who claimed to have been assaulted could proceed to the proper authorities with his three witnesses and there enter his complaint. After considerable talk, the men adopted Mr. Doyle's proposition and returned to Ewa. There a conference was held and it was suggested—and agreed upon by the Japanese—that all would return to work but that their wages should not be docked and that the injured man should have medical attention at the expense of the plantation and his wages to go on during his illness.

The manager, we are told, could not approve of this reasonable proposition and insisted on being present, having had translated the conversation between Mr. "Doyle and the men. He eventually insisted in (sic) having the 81 Japanese jailed and fined and, the strict letter of the law being with him, he carried his point.

Packed Like Sardines In Jail

Ewa jail is a small building containing two or three cells suitable to accommodate two or three persons each. The police force of Ewa is composed of two policemen and a daft native deputy sheriff. The manager, evidently considering the force insufficient to arrest 81 men, telephoned to the police department in Honolulu asking for help or for permission to swear in men as special constables. These requests were naturally refused as violation of labor contracts is a civil and not a criminal offense. The Citizens' Guard, whatever that may be, was then called out, we are told, and the 81 Japs were forced to tramp to Ewa jail where they were locked up. How the men were accommodated in the cells of the jail is a mystery. They must have been packed like sardines in a box, This morning they were to be tried before the Hawaiian magistrate of the plantation district. They have no attorneys, no interpreter and no knowledge of our laws. The magistrate will probably order them to return to work and to pay costs which means that $3 will be deducted from the $12 which each of them receive (sic) per month.

By Frank Marshall Davis look to Cincinnati

This weekend, Oct. 27 and 28, Cincinnati will play host to an event that will be of personal importance to everybody living in Hawaii. This highly significant event is the founding convention of the National Negro Labor Council, which is an outgrowth of the National Trade Union Conference for Negro Bights held in Chicago during June of 1950.

Since it is pretty well established that the treatment of Negroes in America serves as a pattern for the treatment of all other non-white peoples, not only on U. S. soil but in Asia and Africa and the rest of the world, it is quite elementary logic to see that whatever victories are won by this largest of Mainland minorities will directly benefit all other non-whites.

U. S. Foreign Policy And Negro Freedom

To bring it even closer home to islanders of Oriental background, the call for the founding convention specifically states that "American foreign policy cannot advance freedom for Asians and Africans until American domestic policy advances freedom for American Negroes as a people." This makes sense.

Further, a militant program supported by 15,000,000 U. S. Negroes would of necessity be a sobering Influence on our drunken drive toward World War III and the spending spree, back-breaking taxes for the common man, and wild inflation which we have today.

And if any of those in Washington and Wall Street now charting the nation's course think that Red-baiting or the jailing of.Negro leaders will stop the fight of the colored people of America for complete equality, they are due for a rude awakening. There are today capable leaders who can neither be bought off nor intimidated.

Battle for Full Economic And Civil Equality

The Chicago conference of June, 1950, brought together delegates from every basic industry in the nation, including representatives from right Wing and left wing unions, the CIO, AFL, and those expelled from the CIO; present also were Negro Democrats, Republicans and Progressives. Completely crossing political lines in their determination to fight jim crow, the delegates declared that "terror, probes and intimidation" would not stop Negroes from battling for full economic and civil equality. They asked Congress and the administration to pass a Federal jobs bill instead of spending , billions to "prepare Europe, China and the Far East for war," stating specifically: "The billions spent on Kuomintang China alone could have gone into a bill to build homes, schools, hospitals and other public necessities for Americans, thereby providing more jobs for all races."

It will undoubtedly interest you to know that the president of the continuations committee which . -is responsible for the conference this weekend is William R. Hood, > secretary of the powerful Ford Local 600 of the United Auto Workers, CIO. During . the past year, this committee has established 23 Negro labor councils in major industrial centers throughout the nation. These councils will serve as the backbone of the national body.

Day To Day Experiences of Negro People

Undaunted by the position of Walter Reuther, of Philip Murray and the others Who have betrayed CIO, here is what William R. Hood said in a public statement:

"The immediate consideration in the experiences of the black people of America, it seems to me, is that they come head-on daily with the following things: They see the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan, not only in the South, but in the North as well. They see seven Negroes judicial, murdered in Richmond, Va., by the state. They see Willie McGee murdered in the same manner. They see trigger-happy policemen shooting down Negroes in cold blood in cities throughout the nation. They see the First Amendment of the Constitution being destroyed.

"They see men like Ferdinand Smith, William L. Patterson, Dr. W. E. B. DuBois and other Negro fighters for complete liberation of the Negro people, becoming victims of a hysteria conceived in Wall Street and carried out in Washington.

For Greater Unity of White And Colored Workers

"They see an unimpeachable fighter for complete liberation of black people of America and colonial people of the world like Paul Robeson, being put under virtual house arrest, denied a passport to travel abroad and give to the people of the world of his talent.

"They see a despicable and unforgivable Cicero, III., incident. They see the authorities there indict the legal counsel for the Clarks as well as others who felt that all people should have the right to the pursuit of happiness. All this they see happening in America. Therefore it becomes imperative that Negro men and women meet together and devise ways and means of putting a stop to these outrages in order that they can help themselves as well as America." To combat this, the National Negro Labor Council will call upon labor, both organized and unorganized, sharecroppers, professionals, small businessmen, the churches and all people and organizations of good will to come together and make common cause. Efforts will be made to bring about greater unity between white and colored workers to struggle against "the same common enemies—the bosses of industry and of farms and plantations."

Negro Liberation Tied With

Colonial Struggles "While we shall fight for Negro and white unity in America," Hood went on, "we are conscious of our international responsibility. The great struggle for Negro liberation is also tied with the struggles of the colonial peoples of the world in their effort to throw off the shackles of foreign domination.

"We will come to Cincinnati conscious of the fact that the rulers of our country are at this point the leaders of world reaction and the drift toward war and fascism. We will understand that these leaders are the main oppressors of the darker people of the world. And we will understand that it is impossible to carry on a war of oppression and subjugation and at the same time, have freedom for the darker people of America and independence for the darker peoples of the world." This is the kind of progressive and militant note on which this conference will meet. Do you see now how a strong organization of this kind will have a bearing on your life over here in Hawaii?