A daily, pocket-sized history of America's working people, brought to you by The Rick Smith Show team.
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Monday Jan 19, 2015
Monday Jan 19, 2015
3,000 members of the Filipino Labor Union went on strike against the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association on the island of Oahu. Plantation Bosses intentionally recruited Filipino workers, in an effort to weaken the Japanese labor force on the island. The bosses pitted one group as strikebreakers against the other.
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