holding of a Pan-Pacific Press Conference for the 
perfection of a permanent organization of news¬ 
paper and magazine men in countries bordering 
on the Pacific. So the Pan-Pacific Press Confer¬ 
ence becomes a part of the Press Congress of the 
World, and it is not improbable that the latter as 
well as the former may result in some permanent 
organization; that the World Press Congress may 
be the beginning of an international league of 
newspapers of the world, just as it is planned that 
the Pan-Pacific Press Conference shall inaugurate 
an association of newspaper people of countries 
about the Pacific. 
William II. Donald, of the bureau of economic 
information, Peking, a member of the Chinese 
delegation, wrote Dr. Williams, saying: “It is .. 
interesting to consider that the Congress is being g? ‘ U W ® 8 ? reated th ® Hawaiian Emergency 
Sugar Factors, the Hawaiian sugar plantations 
were then (September 8, 1921) 120,000 tons short 
of the amount manufactured and in bags, and 92,- 
000 tons short of the quantity of sugar shipped up 
to August 31, two years ago. An estimate given 
by a sugar expert was to the effect that the entire 
1921 crop may not be harvested until the end of 
March, 1922. He said that unless more labor 
was secured very soon it might be necessary to 
skip one entire crop, for if the 1921 crop lasts un¬ 
til March, 1922, the 1922 crops will probably run 
over to the end of July. 1923, and under such con¬ 
ditions Hawaii might have to leave out the 1923 
crop entirely. 
At the last session of the territorial legisla- 
held in Honolulu in this period, because Honolulu 
unquestionably becomes the hub of the political 
universe just now. Political considerations of any 
moment are surely going to shift to the Pacific, 
and since that is the case, it is fortunate that 
newspaper men from all over the world will be 
able to foregather at a spot the equal of which 
for this purpose does not exist.” 
Among the Pan-Pacific Union’s numerous ac¬ 
tivities are occasional international banquets. As 
an illustration of how cosmopolitan these affairs 
may be, at a recent “get-together” in Honolulu a 
Chinese merchant presided, a descendant of Ha¬ 
waiian royalty delivered the address of the even¬ 
ing, the Japanese Consul entertained as his guests 
a number of Chinese, and a Chinese attorney en¬ 
tertained as his guests a number of Japanese. Ko¬ 
reans entertained Filipinos, and Portuguese had 
Russians as their guests. In short, the Pan-Pa¬ 
cific Union is seeking to establish a brotherhood of 
interest among the Pacific nations. 
The Pan-Pacific Association, a branch of the 
Pan-Pacific Union, has for its purpose a more 
solidly united community effort. 
THE ONE BIG PROBLEM 
v 
While it is true that Hawaii had a “good year, 
as shown by reports of the Territory’s business 
for the last fiscal period, the principal industry 
of the islands is facing a grave problem for 
which the shortage of labor is responsible. 
The labor shortage on the sugar plantations is 
actual and real, and sugar men declare that unless 
more labor is secured in the near future it mav 
tj 
be necessary to skip one entire crop. 
As an illustration of what labor shortage means 
to the chief enterprise of the Territory a compari¬ 
son is made of shipments up to September 1, 
1921, and shipments in previous years. The es¬ 
timated 1921 raw sugar crop is 569,000 tons, plus 
16,000 tons of refined sugar. The total shipments 
to the end of August were only 401,124 tons, or 
76 per cent of the total crop. Omitting figures for 
1920, when conditions were abnormal on account 
of the strike, and comparing 1921 with 1919, at 
even date, 97 per cent of the crop had been ship¬ 
ped. According to a recent announcement of the 
Labor Commission to go before Congress with a 
resolution looking to immediate relief in the form 
of introduction of alien labor, the resolution plac¬ 
ing authority for permitting the entrance of such 
alien labor into Hawaii in the hands of the secre¬ 
tary of labor of the United States. After investi¬ 
gation, if he finds that any emergency exists, he 
will then promulgate regulations permitting suf¬ 
ficient aliens to enter Hawaii to meet the short¬ 
age. Meeting the opposition of the American 
Federation of Labor, or of its president, Samuel 
Gompers, who chooses to adopt the contention that 
Hawaii’s effort to save her principal industry is an 
attempt to “pass a resolution permitting 50,000 
Chinese coolies to be contracted for and imported 
into Hawaii,” the members of the commission 
pointed out to Congress that the entry of laborers 
under contract is expressly forbidden and that 
whatever aliens are allowed to enter Hawaii as 
decided by the secretary of labor under the reso¬ 
lution, shall be brought in only for limited periods 
of time, during the five years that the resolution 
is to be operative, and then only under conditions 
and regulations to be prescribed by the secre¬ 
tary of labor. 
Under the resolution, alien labor brought to 
Hawaii will not be brought to work for any par¬ 
ticular employer, but will be free to do agricul¬ 
tural work as the laborers desire. The cost of im¬ 
porting them is borne by the government of the 
Territory of Hawaii. 
The resolution provides that regulations shall 
secure the return of the emergency laborers to 
their respective countries upon the expiration of 
the time limit, and an express provision is made 
against the removal of these immigrants to any 
other place under the jurisdiction of the United 
States. In other words they are not permitted on 
the American mainland or in any territory or pos¬ 
session of the United States except Hawaii, and 
are allowed in Hawaii only for the period stipu¬ 
lated. 
Mr. Gompers has never been in Hawaii and 
knows nothing of local conditions. The chairman 
of Hawaii’s Emergency Labor Commission, Wal¬ 
ter F. Dillingham, expressed the concensus of 
Hawaiian opinion when he said to the congres- 
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