According to these statements. up to the 31st of December last 30.000 Asiatics have been imported to these islands as contract or slave laborers. and they are still there. I understand that very many more have been imported during the months of January and February. and that they are importing them at about the rate of 3.000 a month. When these emigrants reach Honolulu they are distributed from that point throughout the plantations of the islands. they are assigned by the companies who import them to the different planters with whom they have made contracts. Under these contracts. if the laborer refuses to toil he is arrested. and if he refuses to go back to service he is sentenced to imprisonment and confined at hard labor until he will consent to return to the service. He is fined for the cost of his arrest. and that is docked from his pay.
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