Sugar Life
Sugar Life
Life on the plantation conditions was filled with a lot of complaints from the Sakatas saying the pay was low, the housing was poor, the foreman (luna) was abusive, the plantation police were so strict and the were extremely isolated. The work extremely hard. The had to carry sugar cane, they did a lot of hoeing and planting. The workers were not used to this hard punishing work schedule. They were not used to the crazy amount of hours. The luna was very strict followed by plantation police. He followed the workers with a black whip and treated them so poorly they would cry.
HSPA adopted a “divide-and-rule” policy which made workers of different ethnicity be pitted to work against each other which made the wages get lowered. If one ethnicity were to go on strike they would use another group to scab over to fix the problem. Living arrangements, job assignments and, wages were also all based on ethnicity. Caucasians were paid the most, considered skilled workers and assigned supervisory positions. The lowest paid white workers were the plantation police who earned $140 per month. Japanese and Filipinos were assigned the back breaking jobs working 10 hours a day 6 …show more content…
Thanks to the chinese the plantation were able to develop more effective ways of growing the Sugarcane. Thus making the Sugar plantations of Hawaii the best or well developed in the world. With so many nationalities, Hawaii's sugar plantations faced a communication dilemma. As more and more diverse groups arrived, new words and phrases had to be developed for people to understand what was required for their jobs and daily life. Pidgin, a Hawaiian plantation language evolved into such a unique vocabulary that during World War II, the Germans were unable to break the code of the Japanese-American 442 Regimental Battalion because they were speaking Hawaiian plantation
Life on the plantation conditions was filled with a lot of complaints from the Sakatas saying the pay was low, the housing was poor, the foreman (luna) was abusive, the plantation police were so strict and the were extremely isolated. The work extremely hard. The had to carry sugar cane, they did a lot of hoeing and planting. The workers were not used to this hard punishing work schedule. They were not used to the crazy amount of hours. The luna was very strict followed by plantation police. He followed the workers with a black whip and treated them so poorly they would cry.
HSPA adopted a “divide-and-rule” policy which made workers of different ethnicity be pitted to work against each other which made the wages get lowered. If one ethnicity were to go on strike they would use another group to scab over to fix the problem. Living arrangements, job assignments and, wages were also all based on ethnicity. Caucasians were paid the most, considered skilled workers and assigned supervisory positions. The lowest paid white workers were the plantation police who earned $140 per month. Japanese and Filipinos were assigned the back breaking jobs working 10 hours a day 6 …show more content…
Thanks to the chinese the plantation were able to develop more effective ways of growing the Sugarcane. Thus making the Sugar plantations of Hawaii the best or well developed in the world. With so many nationalities, Hawaii's sugar plantations faced a communication dilemma. As more and more diverse groups arrived, new words and phrases had to be developed for people to understand what was required for their jobs and daily life. Pidgin, a Hawaiian plantation language evolved into such a unique vocabulary that during World War II, the Germans were unable to break the code of the Japanese-American 442 Regimental Battalion because they were speaking Hawaiian plantation