Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Walter Francis Frear, 84, first Supreme Court Chief Justice of the Hawaiian Islands (1900-07), third Governor (1907-13); in Honolulu. A circuit judge under Queen Liliuokalani, he helped frame the legal code of the islands when they became a U.S. territory...
From outside the Continental U.S.A. came 28 students, representing Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, England. Greece, Guatemale, Hawaiian Islands, India, Iraq, Italy, Mexico, Palestine, the Philippines, South Africa, and Venezuela...
Leader of the walkout was Amos Ignacio, a member of the territorial legislature and head of the I.L.W.U.'s Hawaiian division of sugar workers. Said he: "We've been smeared enough with Red paint. We have waited for a long time for a denial of Communistic activities by some of our biggest union bosses and we are sick of waiting. . . . We know there are Communists in the union...
Last July he tried again, in the pineapple fields. This time he lost, hands down. Hawaiian laborers, who are among the best-paid agricultural labor in the world (average wage: $8.10 a day), did not want to lose 40 to 50 days of peak seasonal employment. Bridges called the strike off after five days. The incident illustrated the paradoxical weakness in Bridges' position. He could cripple the islands' limited economy, or he could starve the islands with a longshoremen's strike. But in the process the workers would hurt themselves...
...territory's half million population, Caucasians-not including 32,000 Army, Navy and Air Force personnel-comprise 33.4%. The rest: Japanese, 32.4%; part-Hawaiian, 12.4%; Filipinos, 10.4% ; Chinese, 5.9% ; pure Hawaiian, 2.1% ; Koreans, 1.4% ; Puerto Rican, .8% ; all others...