Speech #770115552

In these days of national stress. we cannot overlook the fact that labor reports show that onethird of the employees on the sugar plantations of Hawaii are aliens. and onethird of these aliens are Japanese. Of the 101.000 employees on plantations. only 6 percent are AngloSaxon or native Hawaiian. while onehalf of the citizen employees are Japanese. This reminds me of the very pertinent fact that in matters of immigration legislation. there have been special provisions made to facilitate the immigration of foreign laborers into the Hawaiian Islands. and these special provisions did not apply to the States of the Union. therefore. the plea that Hawaii is entitled to 100 percent the same treatment as the 48 States is not a consistent argument when we consider that the Hawaiian planters have asked for and been accorded special treatment in our immigration laws. As a matter of fact. Mr.