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In May 1905, a mass meeting was held in San Francisco, California to launch the Japanese and Korean Exclusion League. [1] Among those attending the first meeting were labor leaders and European immigrants, Patrick Henry McCarthy of the Building Trades Council of San Francisco, Andrew Furuseth, and Walter Macarthur of the International Seamen's Union.
Before the 1919 and 1920 formation of the Federation of Japanese Labor, there were several strikes organized to protest the abuse endured by European plantation owners, notably the Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920. The plantation system of Hawaii was a physically taxing life for Japanese labourers, but by the early 1900s, they had established a ...
The labor action involved 8,300 sugar plantation field workers out on strike from January to July 1920. The unions' demands for a pay increase were met by the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association . Some 150 evicted workers and their family members died of the epidemic Spanish flu during the strike, with their poor living conditions presumably ...
The Immigration Acts of 1917 and 1924, which targeted non-whites of Asian descent, still allowed Filipinos to answer the growing demand for labor on the U.S. mainland. From the 1920s on, "overwhelmingly young, single, and male" [3] Filipinos migrated to the Pacific Coast, [4] joining Mexicans in positions previously filled by Chinese, Japanese ...
Asian Americans: an interpretive history (Twayne, 1991). ISBN 978-0-8057-8437-4; Fuchs, Lawrence H. Hawaii Pono: An Ethnic and Political History (1997) Lee, Shelley Sang-Hee. A New History of Asian America (2014) Okihiro, Gary Y. The Columbia Guide to Asian American History (2001) online edition excerpt and text search
From book: Mexico, California and Arizona; being a new and revised edition of Old Mexico and her lost provinces. (1900) (image caption "A Balcony In The Chinese Quarter") Mexico had its highest percentage of foreign immigrants in 1930. One reason for this is that from the 1820s to the 1920s, Mexico was mired in political instability and civil war.
1920s, Filipino labor leaders organize unions and strategic strikes to improve working and living conditions. [73] Among the union organizers there were individuals who had harbored communist sentiments, as well as those who were nationalistic and anti-communist .
In 1921, Henry Chung published The Case of Korea, a book that criticized Japanese colonialism and advocated for Korean independence. [106] [107] Japan attempted to halt the book's publication. In spite of this, The New York Times published an abridged version of the book, and the entire book was submitted into the American Congressional Record ...