of its members, and great efforts were made to induce him to join. The
man, however, remained firm.

When the union found that he was really determined not to join, it began
to persecute him, and sending its walking delegates to follow him
wherever he obtained employment, threatened his master to call all the
rest of his workmen out on strike if the offending engineer was not
discharged.

This happened time after time; all of his employers declared that he was
a competent workman, and that they were very sorry to discharge him, but
they dared not take the risk of a strike and so were obliged to let him
go.

In 1896 this man tried to join the union but they refused to have him,
though at the same time they continued to persecute him so that he could
not obtain work anywhere. Then he sued the Labor Union for damages.

The judge before whom the case was brought gave a decision in the
workingman's favor, declaring that if labor unions were allowed to do
any such wicked things as this, no laborer who was not a union man could
be able to earn his living.

* * * * *

Preparations are being made in Honolulu for the reception of the
Princess Kaiulani.

It is whispered that, in case the annexation treaty should be rejected
by the Senate, Kaiulani wants to be on hand to seize the throne.