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Pirate Eyes on Hawaii Series: Genocide in Hawaii out of the History Pages and Off of Facebook!

Kauai Massacre of 1924:

Hi all I am interested in knowing more about the Hanapepe massacre of 1924. Sixteen strikers were killed in the massacre and there is no mention of where the long trench-gravesite is where the strikers are buried. Does anybody know where this long trench is located? My only guess is the Sugar plantation cemetery on the outskirts by the ocean. Does anyone know for sure? My dad is from Kauai and was a sakada, plantation worker harvesting the sugarcane. He was there during that time but was not involved in the massacre. If anyone knows please give me some insight.

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Russel DeSilva Nobody really knows other than the fact that they were transported on a truck to a trench following the funerals for the cops and strikers.

They were also unmarked but if I had to guess it wouldn't be near a beach would have to be in a field somewhere up in the mountains
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Ted Visaya When I go back to Kauai I'm going to ask around. I want to find out. Just need to find the haunted place.
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Russel DeSilva Yup gotta ask people in their 90's guarantee they'd know
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Char Reyes Sunny ʻŌnikiniki know anything bout this ? Didnt even know about a massacre!.
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Bryce Kawenamalama Boeder I saw this but was thinking would be too much to handle
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Amelia Gora checked on chroniclingamerica website and nothing posted about the Kauai Massacre ….hmmm
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Lisa A. DeHart Here we go again...missionaries coming in, taking over and telling us how we need to act, dress, live and worship. 😏 Kanaka need to step up and take back the islands.
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Tuesday, September 9, 2014


Hanapēpē Massacre


In Hawaiʻi, shortage of laborers to work in the growing (in size and number) sugar plantations became a challenge.  Starting in the 1850s, when the Hawaiian Legislature passed “An Act for the Governance of Masters and Servants,” a section of which provided the legal basis for contract-labor system, labor shortages were eased by bringing in contract workers from Asia, Europe and North America.

Of the large level of plantation worker immigration, the Chinese were the first (1850,) followed by the Japanese (1885.)  After the turn of the century, the plantations started bringing in Filipinos.  Over the years in successive waves of immigration, the Sugar Planters (HSPA_)brought to Hawaiʻi 46,000-Chinese, 180,000-Japanese, 126,000-Filipinos, as well as Portuguese, Puerto Ricans and other ethnic groups.

Upon arrival in Hawaiʻi, Filipino contract laborers were assigned to the HSPA-affiliated plantations throughout the territory. Their lives would now come under the dictates of the plantation bosses. They had no choice as to which plantation or island they would be assigned. Men from the same families, the same towns or provinces were often broken up and separated.  (Alegado)

Between 1906 and 1930, the HSPA brought in approximately 126,000-Filipinos to Hawaiʻi, dramatically altering the territory's ethnic demographics.   Comprising only 19-percent of the plantation workforce in 1917, the Filipinos jumped to 70-percent by 1930, replacing the Japanese, who had dwindled to 19-percent as the 1930s approached.  (Aquino)

The end of World War I was a time of crisis for labor in general - the economy had to accommodate two-million soldiers seeking civilian jobs – and, the US Supreme Court issued rulings which were unfavorable to labor.  Never-the-less, “There seems to be some sort of strike in every city, town and hamlet in the country.” (Poindexter, Advertiser, October 28, 1919; Alcantara)

In Hawaiʻi, the Japanese abandoned unionism altogether with the failure of the 1920 strike; Filipinos, led by Pablo Manlapit, continued to organize and also form the Higher Wages Movement.

The Movement petitioned the Sugar Planters in 1923 for a $2-a-day, 40-hour work week and an end to abuses.  Then, in April 1924, Filipino plantation workers went on strike.  Rather than a unified Filipino effort, it turned into a Visayan versus Ilocano conflict (the plantations brought Ilocanos in as strike breakers.)  (Alegado)

The strike of 1924 occurred over a period of approximately five months from April through September. It consisted of loosely coordinated strike actions on Oʻahu, Kauai, Maui and the Big Island under the general direction of the Executive Committee of the Higher Wages Movement involving a few thousand strikers at 23 of Hawai‘i’s 45 plantations, with just four of Kaua‘i’s 11 plantations represented: McBryde, Makaweli, Makee and Līhuʻe.  (Kerkvliet)

On September 8, 1924, two Ilocano Filipinos, Marcelo Lusiano and Alipio Ramel (each about 18-years old from the Makaweli plantation,) rode into Hanapēpē on their bicycles to buy a pair of $4 shoes. (Hill)

Filipino laborers earned approximately $20 to $25 a month, and would spend about one-fourth of their wages on food and an additional $2 to wash their clothes. They sent much of the remaining money to relatives in the Philippines.

On their way back to the plantation, Lusiano and Ramel passed the strike headquarters, where they were apparently attacked by Visayan strikers and held inside the schoolhouse against their will. When friends of the young men realized they were missing, they reported them to the Kauai sheriffs. (Hill)

“(T)he men were kidnaped by strikers and held prisoner at a Japanese school house at Hanapēpē. They said they were attacked by strikers and intimidated into declaring that they would join the strikers.”  (Honolulu Times, September 12, 1924)

The next day, strikers and police clashed at a strike camp in Hanapēpē. About 40-armed police had gone to pick up the two Ilocanos at the strike camp, believing them to be prisoners of the strikers.   (hawaii-edu)

The two men were released and were leaving the school grounds with Deputy Sheriff William Crowell when some strikers began following and taunting them, waving their cane knives in the air threateningly. The sharpshooters fired upon the strikers when they saw the men try to attack Crowell. (Hill)

“The policemen drew out their revolvers and I heard one saying that they should be quiet otherwise they would be pacified with their revolvers to which strikers answered that they should go ahead.”

“Later on we heard a shot quite far from us. I cannot ascertain whose shot it was, if it came from the police side or the striker’s side, but I was sure it was quite far from us behind.”  (Lusiano; Honolulu Times, September 12 ,1924)

In the end, 16 strikers were shot dead; four sheriffs suffered casualties as a result of stab wounds and 25 were reported wounded. (Hill)

“When I heard the shooting, I began to run … I didn’t even have a knife. I had nothing to defend myself with. There were others who had guns, but they only had two bullets. They were courageous, they were acting tough … They’re the ones who died. I’m a coward. Those who ran away, they didn’t die.” (Bakiano; hawaii-edu)

The incident has been referred to the Hanapēpē Massacre; it was the bloodiest incident in the history of labor in Hawaiʻi.  (Alegado)

Most of the strikers were arrested; seventy-six were indicted on riot charges, 60 received 4-year sentences.  Some returned to work afterward; some were deported back to the Philippines.  Nobody was charged with murder.   (Hill, Alegado)

Manlapit was convicted of conspiracy and received a two- to 10-year sentence at O‘ahu Prison, but was paroled in 1927 on the condition he leave the Islands. He moved to California, but returned to Hawai‘i in 1933 and returned to the Philippines in 1934.  (Soboleski)

In 2006, a plaque was placed in the Hanapēpē Town Park to commemorate the Hanapepe Massacre of 1924.

The image shows National Guard soldiers watched over 130 strikers awaiting trial for riot charges outside the Līhuʻe district court.  (TGI)  In addition, I have added some other images in a folder of like name in the Photos section on my Facebook and Google+ pages.

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Amelia Gora the author has much more on his blog...….everyone needs to know...
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Amelia Gora The motivation of massacres and wars were considered as precedents to Annexation...kid you not! read the articles found with that in mind at https://iolani-theroyalhawk.blogspot.com/.../pirate-eyes... Alfred de Zayas Williamson Chang et. als. please take note that what happened in Texas prompted the precedence of massacres and war would be the reason to annex Hawaii...Evil but it's in the aged articles of 1893..... it also means that precedence is the motivation against all nations by the U.S.... a research on the backgrounds of each nation plundered upon which became an eventual territory of the U.S., Great Britain, etc. would reveal a lot... wicked.
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