Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1909 — PLANTERS TO TRY RUSSIANS [ARTICLE]

PLANTERS TO TRY RUSSIANS

Apply For Permission to Bring Into Hawaii Forty Families. Honolulu. July 27.-—Hawaiian suear planters are contemplating importing Russian immigrants to solve the labor problem in the Islands. Application has been made to the territorial board of immigration for permission to import forty Russian families. The platers have experimented with Japanese. Spanish, Portuguese and Porto Rican laborers and all have proved unsatisfactory.