
An eight-month strike on a sugar plantation in Hanapepe ends with the death of 17 strikers and four policemen, 101 arrested. Workers are defeated by poor organization and the importation of strikebreakers from the Philippines.
Federal Immigration Act prohibits all immigration from Japan. Between 1885 and 1924, a total of approximately 200,000 Japanese arrived in Hawai'i to work primarily on sugar plantations.
Hawai'i Educational Association, predecessor of statewide unions, forms to represent educators.
Use of tarred mulching paper in pineapple fields increases; borrowed from the sugar industry, the paper protects and fosters young plants.
Antonio Castro organizes Honolulu Finance and Thrift Company, the first island institution to award personal loans to wage earners.
$78,652,000 imports arrive in Hawai'i; exports total $109,889,000.
Filipino labor organizer Pablo Manlapit leads sugar strike on O`ahu. Lasting eight months, the strike eventually targets 23 of Hawaii's 45 plantations.