United States Congressional serial set Volume 5928

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...Waipahu, City And County Op Honolulu, May 12, 1909. Mr. E. K. Bull, Manager Oahu Sugar Co., Waipahu. Dear Sir: We have the pleasure to express our keen appreciation of your past kindness and favor, and it is particularly pleasing to us to recollect that we have taken a part in the development of the Oahu Sugar Co., thereby not only contributing to the upbuilding of the splendid and prosperous plantation of which you are manager, but also contributing our part in the upbuilding of the Territory or Hawaii in its economic progress. It shall be our fondest and most cherished hope to continue to help the development and progress of your plantation, and through it that of this Territory, the outpost of the American civilization and its power and majesty--the meeting place of the East and the West. While we thus look back upon the past with pleasure and pride, and look forward with hope and enthusiasm, the progress of the time has brought about many and varied changes necessitating an enormous increase of expenditures, which can not be met with the present scanty wages. Therefore it has become our painful burden to hereby respectfully present to you our request for reasonable increase of wages. The following are our requests: 1. That the wages of the common field hands, the lunas, the mule men, and all other kinds of laborers, except the mill hands, beincreased by $8 per month of 26 working days; provided, however, that the wages for one Sunday's work be paid at the rate of two days' work of the secular week days. 2. (a) That the wages of mill hands of all kinds be increased by $10.50 per month; and (b) That the hours of labor be limited to 10 hours, and the hours worked beyond that be considered as overtime and be paid at 15 cents per hour of the overtime. (c) Th...