Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only one ship from the U.S. had docked in Honolulu in six weeks. Foodstuffs were dangerously, low (90% are imported); little businesses were closing down, bigger businesses were laying off employes. The loss of $5,000,000 in wages by about 28,000 sugar workers was a crippling blow...
...vise which Harry Bridges had screwed on Hawaii brought the island face to face with the hard facts of modern U.S. industrial-labor power plays. Sharp-nosed Harry Bridges had already taken temporary command of the islands' economy. If he could win a closed union shop for the sugar workers and make it stick, it would be a long step toward organization of the islands' workers-and that would be a long step toward domination of its economic and political life...
Sweeten the Pot. He had worked slowly and shrewdly. For the last eleven years his I.L.W.U. organizers had lined up Honolulu's waterfront workers, spread their grip into the sugar and pineapple fields, canneries and many other enterprises...
...last year Bridges was ready to demand a contract for the sugar workers, who had always been at or near the bottom of the economic pile. Imported by the thousands as indentured laborers from China, Japan, Portugal, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, they had once lived in virtual peonage...
...I.L.W.U. got the sugar workers a contract providing minim urns of 41?to 43½?an hour (up from 26½?), plus perquisites such as company housing and medical care. This year the I.L.W.U., strong and cÕnifident, asked for much more sweetening: 1) a 65? minimum; 2) joint company-union administration of perquisites; 3) a 40-hour week; 4) the union shop. That was too much for the planters; for weeks negotiations have been stalemated...