W
wages:
bonus system in, 55 , 56 , 126 , 131 –32, 184 , 231 ;
calls for increased, 41 , 44 –45, 47 –49, 51 –58, 65 , 133 ;
for contract workers, 15 ;
discrimination in, 19 , 25 , 75 ;
for first-year arrivals, 13 ;
gender differences in, 54 , 109 , 131 , 133 ;
increased by HSPA, 131 –33, 156 ;
for mainland laborers, 54 ;
planters' evidence of sufficient, 69 –70;
poststrike, 126 ;
postwar increase in, 338 ;
reduced by HSPA, 228 –29
Wahiawa Plantation, pickets at, 147 , 187
Waiakea Plantation:
labor contractors at, 223 –24;
laborers at, 208 ;
store at, 317 , 326
Waialua Plantation:
evictions from, 86 , 191 , 327 ;
fire at, 186 ;
influenza epidemic and, 87 –88;
labor contractors at, 188 –89;
laborers at, 147 , 162 , 188 , 190 , 192 ;
location of, xii –xiii (maps);
organizing at, 44 , 52 , 95 ;
strike at, 19 , 94 , 164 –65, 199 ;
strikebreakers at, 95 –96
Waianae Plantation:
location of, xii –xiii (maps);
rally at, 95
Waiau:
hotel in, 121 , 192 ;
restaurant in, 121 , 124 –25, 127 , 194 –95, 198 , 225
Waikiki, development of, 234
Waikiki Water Company, 248
Waimanalo Plantation:
fire at, 186 ;
labor organizer at, 48 , 221 ;
location of, xii –xiii (maps);
strikebreakers at, 96
Wainaku Plantation, contractor at, 152
Waipahu Plantation:
evictions from, 86 ;
explosion at, 187 ;
fire at, 186 ;
laborers at, 168 –69;
location of, xii –xiii (maps);
parade participants from, 109 ;
photography studio at, 113 ;
pickets at, 169 , 204 ;
rally at, 95 ;
stockholders of, 248 ;
strike at, 19 , 63 , 64 , 66 , 200 , 203 –4;
strikebreakers at, 95 –96, 327 ;
traitors at, 83 ;
union dissolved at, 281
Wakabayashi (pineapple dealer), 119 , 121
Wakikawa, Seiei, 102 –3, 320
Walter-McCarran Immigration and Naturalization Act (1952), 339
Washington (state), depression's effects on, 328
Washington, D.C., cherry trees in, 300
Washington Conference:
immigration concerns and, 277 –79, 312 ;
proposals in, 274 –75;
Senate hearings postponed for, 274 ;
treaty from, 275 –76, 282 , 331
Waterhouse, John:
background of, 119 ;
on 1920 economy, 134 ;
family of, 176 ;
on Filipino immigration, 94 ;
Isobe's confrontation with, 124 –25;
motives of, 123 –24;
negotiations and, 55 , 118 –19, 121 , 130 , 148 , 192 ;
poststrike posters distributed by, 126 ;
questions about, 127 ;
on strike, 71 , 125 ;
on sugar profits, 131 , 250 ;
workers criticized by, 133 –34
Wilson, J., 287
Wilson, Woodrow:
Alien Land Law and, 285 ;
idealism of, 137 , 251 ;
immigration quota bill and, 301 ;
on labor conference, 51 ;
League of Nations and, 59 ;
on racial equality, 236 ;
reelection of, 42
Wobblies. See Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
women, suffrage for, 137
women workers:
as percentage, 109 ;
wages of, 54 , 109 , 131 , 133
Woodlawn Stock and Dairy Company, 247
workers. See laborers
World War I:
as context, 32 –33, 35 –36;
German-language schools closed during, 38 ;
U.S. labor movement during, 42 –44
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 310
Wright, George W.:
background of, 261 ;
credibility of, 267 –68, 270 –71;
Filipino strike and, 319 ;
job for, 326 ;
leadership of, 259 , 261 –62;
Scharrenberg's meeting with, 288 ;
testimony for House hearings, 262 , 264 –67