The Industrial Condition OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN HONOLULU A Social Study BY FRANCES BLASCOER (FORMERLY EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE. NEW YORK CITY.) Special Investigator for the Board of Trustees of the Kaiulani Home for Young Women and Girls Honolulu Social Survey FIRST STUDY HONOLULU, NOVEMBER, 1912 MR. GEO. W. SMITH, _Chairman of the Executive Committee_. HON. WM. L. WHITNEY, _Secretary_. HONOLULU SOCIAL SURVEY 1912 UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE KAIULANI HOME FOR GIRLS. Vol. I. Industrial Condition of Women and Girls _Frances Blascoer_ Vol. II. Dependent Children _Frances Blascoer_ Vol. III. The Social Evil _James A. Rath_ Vol. IV. Housing Conditions _James A. Rath_ Vol. V. Family Budgets _James A. Rath_ EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Mrs. Frances M. Swanzey _Chairman Committee on Industrial Conditions_ Mrs. Walter F. Dillingham Committee on Dependent Children Mr. John R. Galt _The Social Evil_ Mr. George R. Carter _Housing Conditions_ Miss Louise Gulick _Family Budgets_ NOTE:—Volumes Nos. I. and II. now ready. Nos. III., IV., and V. will appear later. PREFACE In preparing to submit the results of the five-months’ survey of Honolulu’s industrial conditions as they affect women and girls, the definition of a pessimist:—one who has just met an optimist,—has more than once floated warningly through my mind. In the face of such a warning it is perhaps with mixed feelings one confesses to a conviction that much may be done to solve the problems of the community. Workrooms are not overcrowded; the air and light are always good; there is no highspeed machinery; no processes dangerous to life and limb are unguarded; fines and penalties are unknown; shop girls work only eight hours a day, have an annual vacation with full pay for two weeks in most shops and of at least one week in all; clerks, stenographers and teachers may well feel that they have found here their earthly paradise both as regards hours and salaries.