The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 11, 1897, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1897. BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY ASSAILED isleading Statements Sent to Washington by a State Officer. SHUFFLING EXCUSE IS OFFERED. How Laber Commissioner Fitz- gerald Seeks to Justify His False Position. RECENT TRIP TO HONOLULU RECALLED. The Sugar-Beet Factories of Watson- ville, Alvarado and Chino Do Not Employ Japanese. Armstrong, the Hawailan Labor Commissioner, is in Washington working diligently to prevent the abrogation of the treaty between the United States and the Republic of Hawaii. Desiring to con- vince Congress that Hawaiian competi- tion in the sugar industry would not be detrimental to white men employed in California, he asked State Labor Commi sioner Fitzgerald to wire him as to the panese employed in the beet- r t in this State. The California Labor Commission er, | | | I | b | e | ville and Pleasanton. 'Sen plied; thatcheap cooly labor is crowding white | | - labor out of the fields, and that thousands of | J e eing employed while thousands | ot men ere idle and in want. | (3 From the nbove ex 1 lished in THE CALL it will be readil 1bave in no war overshol the mar | the time when individual interests were not | as pu seen th at steke THE CALL joined with me in gIvi the facts. At the investigations hel was 10 investization made it being entirely confined ut the fact thut_the beet tally rther that investiga- San Erancisco brought ¢ to stal 10 lignt: ouse bos# at 126 Golden Gate ave- : “Have vers few boys now—all in | Work on iruit snd beets, nove in | n $1 or less. Send grest number to | le sud Waisonville; &iso some to Boys always work at_Pleasanton beel- Do not know bow many boys work on | Oth Stevenson street | ty work in beet- Watsonville, Castro- plenty —don’t Chino. fields. { beets—may be 300 to 400 Boarding-house boss at 4: says fields. +Boys sil out P I send to Chino, Know how many—great man Boardine-house boss at D293 Geary street says: 1 have no Jap boys st present, all gone in'country. Plenty work. I think about 1000 | Jap boys work in beetfields at Watsonvilie. Do | Pac t know how many at Pleasanton—I think a great many.” 1 hope that in the interest of fair play and | labor your valusble paper will give space | i Yours, very truly | LD, Labor Commissioner, | . Spreckels, when seen again yes- terday in regard to the statement of the | Labor Commissioner that the California beet-sugar industry was operated by Jap- anese inaignantly denied that such was the case and branaed the statement as de- liberately false. fishi; A NORTHWESTER A British Ship and a Host of Fishing Boats Come Sailing In. er Vessels Were Towed In. Two Sugar Boats Dragged Their Anchors. ific Mail Company’s Steamers Quarantined at San Jose de Guatemala, ng boats came scudding in The northwester yesterday that blew on | the bay mad® things lively for shipping. | A couple of ships dragged sheir anckors, hours Active was sent to her assistance. The and safely moored alongside the wharf. Henry Peterson had a nard row against a flood tide yesterday. The care-taker on | the Camanche signaled for bim, and Henry at once put off in a Whitehall. When he got alongside the man said a dead body had just floated past. Peterson started after i1, ana after a ten minutes' pull came up with an empty beer cask. On u1s way back to the Folsom-street steps, with the tide running strong against him, he did nothing but call the man on the Camanche names. The Pacific Mail Company’s Newport went to sea yesterday in command of Captain Zeeder. She was to have bien 1 | bark was then taken to the sugar refinery % [STIMAIES FUH dore of the fleet, but he was taken ill sud- denly, so the chief officer had to assume command. The Mail Company seems to be having bad luck with its officers on the Panama route. The captain of the City of Para died at or near to Panama, and Chiet Engineer McLean of the San Jose aied near San Jose de Guatemala. News reached here vesterday that the Guatema- lan authorities have notified the Mail Company tuat in future all their steamers will be held in quarantine at the port of entry for seven days before being allowed to discharge. The San Jose and Acapuico are now in quarantine, and the supposi- | tior is that they are unable to show a | clean bill of health. The supposition is | the death of Caief Engineer McLean, but the officers of the Newport assert that he | died from acute rheamatism. Ifanybody died on the Acapulco the news has not | reached here. The chances are, however, *“A few days ago,” he said, referring to | an interview in THE CALy, ‘1 stated that there was not a Japasese on the payroll of | the Watsonville establishment. Since then I have seen Robert Oxnard, one of the stockholders of the Chino . works. Mr. Oxnard assures me that there is not a Japanese emploved at that place. There the employes are largely native Califor- nians. There is also quite a large English tlement in that vicinity and a aber of the employes are members of There are no Japanese on the payroll at Alvas rado, and these three are the only Cali- fornia beet-sugar factories at present in operation. “Mr. Fitzgerald has evidently exceeded t- | formed that he is retained by peopie who are interested in the hawaiian treaiy Recently he made a trip to the island penses paid. Certainly he is in the interests of this State when he at- tacks with falsehoods one ot its indus- | Spreckels does not deny that Jap- | anese find emplovment in California. He knows that guite a number work in the | orchards, vineyards and milk ranches and A British Sh ip and Nearly the Entire Fishing Fleet Came Fowling In Through the Heads Before Yesterday’s Northwester. From Panama and Made Splendid Time, While the Fishing-Boats Were Making Port in Order to Be in Time for To-Day’s Market. | e The K taken out by Captain Searles, the commo- | that the San Jose is held on account of | I Ruuuing expeu | have veen fully paid companies. Ii | For the fiscal year just closing the total | i FIRE PURPOSES Exactly Three-Quarters of a Million Asked For. Salaries of Sixteen Fully Paid Companies Are In- ciuded. There Are Reductions on All Other Items Excepting Those Fix.d by Ordinance. the The estimates of expenditures for the Fire Department for the next fiscal year were submitted to the Fire Commissioners ata meeting yesterday afternoon and ap- | proved. Tue estimates are aa follows: Salaries ..... = Pe nce Tuna BABSEIRL ;. Voot sss Hose, houses and rey apparaius aud bydrants... Total ... +ee 8700000 | There are altogether 50 companies, and | of these the 7 cnemical engine companies | the Supervisors pass the appropriation for the 13 engine companies and 3 truck com- panies it would make 23 paid companies | out of the 50, or nearly half. The estimates also include the funds necessary for a new extra engine com- pany in the Point Lobos district, the resi- | dents there and on Masonic avenue hav- | ing been petitioning for it for some t.me. appropriation was $674,500, and of this amount avout $35,000 will be unexpended. With the exception of the salaries and the | estimates for running expenses and ma- 3 '/f/.afi./a, irkcudbrightshire Was in Ballast Fitzgerald, who recently Hawaii, understood at once what was wanted for immedjate use in Washington, and so without ae! or investigation te egraphed to Armstrong that practically all the large beet-ficlds here were worked by Japanese, and that under existing con- ditions the by ry was of little advantage to American laborers. Tre CALL, knowing that the industry was of vast importance to California an one that gave employment toa la: ber of whitelabore to account for trying tc tant entery A the stater 80 interview was hua with A. B Sprec els, who asserted that there wasnota “Jap' on the 11 of the Waisonville factor, and 95 per cent of the the beet fields of | white people. STATEMENT. to an article v departed ‘from the ises, and will coufinie myseif as much as possible to THE CALL in 1895 (when nvestigation), and o4 the beiance of the press of this Siaie in pointing 10 the great evil emanating from Japanese labor ia the fields of Caiifornia. From the an Fr 1L of June 7, 1895, under the cap y Labor”: he_persistent Cominis- sioner E. L. Fitzzer ates Im- migration Commis to get at the bottom facts of the cooly labor contract matters are receiving the indorsement of all who have the interest of e State and the in- Lo teresis of white labor at I * The state of affairs eda County is believed to be about tne same &s in all fruit, beet and hop raising sec he State, that is, Jap- anese and Chinese coolies, by their bosses, hold and control all that cless of Iabor in Caii- fornia.” From the San Francisco Ca under caption of *Cooly from s two-column arucle the following is reported from the testimony of A.J. Plats of 507 California street: “In speaking of the contract laborers Mr. Platt threw some valuable light upon the very matter the Commissiouers are looking into It proves conclusively that the Jap contractor, Balo, is violating thecontract law. Mr. Plail said} «Downing told me that he proposed to use Japs in the cultivation of beets. He brought the Jap contractor, Sato, to our office and I saw one of the cooly labor contracts.” Under caption of “Imported Jap Laborers”: “The inquiry st Pleasanton, Alameda County, demonstrated that in_even so small & locality tne Japanese are rapidl place of whites; that they are brougnt from Japan under contracts either writien or im- plied and thaet at least 20,000 more are wait- ing for s favorable opportunily to enter the vineyards, orchards, hopyards, etc. ” From the San Francisco CALL of June6, 1895, under ception of **Wkites Driven Out. In commenting upon the testimony of A. C. Vandervoort it says: “White labor can do the work in the nop yards and beet fields as well as the Japanese, Dbut of course not at such iow wages as the lat- ter work for. * * * Inexamining this contrao- tor 8 remarkable state of affairs were brought 1o light. Sato had & contract 10 work the beet flelds at $15 per acre. At the first hoeing he received $5, and afier the second he received §3. If the crop goes over eight tons to the acre he gets §1 a ton for ench acre in excess of eight tons. * * * He is virtuslly & partner with_the land-owner, the land-renter and the at & Proportion of about one-thirg.” The San Francisco CALL of June 1 under caption ot “Coolies on a Stri speaking of a contract with Sato he says: “It was with Graham, and as he only got ten tons of beets 10 the acre and worked sixty men for two months and twelve days, he iost money on the Contract. The men made 67 centsa day. * * % Tphe next comtract was mede last February. He agreed with Downing and Lilienthal 1o work the hop and beet fields. Downing stande good for all the bills con- tracted at the stores in town.” In the San Francisco CALL of June 20, 1895: “The Labor Commissioner has secured data t0 show that Japanese are being brought into this Btate on contracts, either written or im- taking the | 1 per cent of the labor in the b three heroes who were b Supervisor Smith £10, E T shal Towe that some get employment from f: beets, but is posi s | ahea in raising Eugene Hodge, 40’ " Becker | Th er swore to & Doe” Brow with Eighteenth ged that he e Swelling the Fund. Ea ullivan is in receipt of the following | bark s for the benefit of | gan u Chief S donatic ick Company No. 3 $7 $10. ), Fire Mar- This is the only form fn which the genu- ine HIRES Rootbeer Carbonated is bot- S led. Al other forms are spurious. cudbrightshire in ballast from went sailing through the entire fleet like | d of time and the British ship Kirk- Panama showed twenty-seven miles an hour. e Combermere from Newcastle, N. S. W., furled her sails off the Faraliones and was towed in by the tug Vigilant. E n that assistance sbe did not m rly in the afternoon the Santisgo. from Hilo with sugar, be- o drag. was notitied, and the tug EW TO-DAY. The counterfeiter of HIRES Rootbeer is again at 1is nefarious work. The new dodge is to take some Hires Rootbeer Extract, aud by adding a great quantity of worthless matter and artificial coloring prepare a wishy-washy mix- ture, which is sold in second-hand quart bottles as Hires Rootbeer, Carbonated. This preparation is as unlike the genuine Hires Rootbeer as chalk and water Its substance is gone, its health-giving properties are destroyed by adulteration, it is without flavor, without worth. which it is put up—who knows where they come from, what they contained before, or with what care they were washed? The leading scientists of to-day pronounce second-hand bottles that have been re-filled one of the most prolific If you wish to be on the safe side, BEWARE OF IMITATIONS OF “ I RES Rootbeer is unlike pure cream. sources of disease. The genuine is scrupulously prepared by The Charles E. Hires Company, and is sold only in pint bottles, with the name blown in the glass. These bottles are carefully sterilized before they are filled. Hires Rootbeer, Carbonated, is a pure, delicious, health-giving, temperance drink, that does the children good, refreshes and invigorates the grown folks. genuine. A Package of HIRES Rootbeer extract makes 5 gallons. merly by all dealers. THE CHARLES E. 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