Author: United States. Marine Corps
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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One Hundred Eighty Landings of United States Marines, 1800-1934
Author: United States. Marine Corps
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Official Register of the United States ...
Author: United States Civil Service Commission
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Category : Government executives
Languages : en
Pages : 1340
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Category : Government executives
Languages : en
Pages : 1340
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Fighting in Paradise
Author: Gerald Horne
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824860217
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Powerful labor movements played a critical role in shaping modern Hawaii, beginning in the 1930s, when International Longshore and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU) representatives were dispatched to the islands to organize plantation and dock laborers. They were stunned by the feudal conditions they found in Hawaii, where the majority of workers—Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino in origin—were routinely subjected to repression and racism at the hands of white bosses. The wartime civil liberties crackdown brought union organizing to a halt; but as the war wound down, Hawaii workers’ frustrations boiled over, leading to an explosive success in the forming of unions. During the 1950s, just as the ILWU began a series of successful strikes and organizing drives, the union came under McCarthyite attacks and persecution. In the midst of these allegations, Hawaii’s bid for statehood was being challenged by powerful voices in Washington who claimed that admitting Hawaii to the union would be tantamount to giving the Kremlin two votes in the U.S. Senate, while Jim Crow advocates worried that Hawaii’s representatives would be enthusiastic supporters of pro–civil rights legislation. Hawaii’s extensive social welfare system and the continuing power of unions to shape the state politically are a direct result of those troubled times. Based on exhaustive archival research in Hawaii, California, Washington, and elsewhere, Gerald Horne’s gripping story of Hawaii workers’ struggle to unionize reads like a suspense novel as it details for the first time how radicalism and racism helped shape Hawaii in the twentieth century.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824860217
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Powerful labor movements played a critical role in shaping modern Hawaii, beginning in the 1930s, when International Longshore and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU) representatives were dispatched to the islands to organize plantation and dock laborers. They were stunned by the feudal conditions they found in Hawaii, where the majority of workers—Hawaiian, Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino in origin—were routinely subjected to repression and racism at the hands of white bosses. The wartime civil liberties crackdown brought union organizing to a halt; but as the war wound down, Hawaii workers’ frustrations boiled over, leading to an explosive success in the forming of unions. During the 1950s, just as the ILWU began a series of successful strikes and organizing drives, the union came under McCarthyite attacks and persecution. In the midst of these allegations, Hawaii’s bid for statehood was being challenged by powerful voices in Washington who claimed that admitting Hawaii to the union would be tantamount to giving the Kremlin two votes in the U.S. Senate, while Jim Crow advocates worried that Hawaii’s representatives would be enthusiastic supporters of pro–civil rights legislation. Hawaii’s extensive social welfare system and the continuing power of unions to shape the state politically are a direct result of those troubled times. Based on exhaustive archival research in Hawaii, California, Washington, and elsewhere, Gerald Horne’s gripping story of Hawaii workers’ struggle to unionize reads like a suspense novel as it details for the first time how radicalism and racism helped shape Hawaii in the twentieth century.
Motion Picture Herald
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Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Category : Motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Chicago Daily News Almanac and Political Register
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
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Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps
Author: United States. Navy
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Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
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REGISTER OF COMMISSIONED AND WARRANT OFFICERS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY AND RESERVE OFFICERS ON THE ACTIVE DUTY
Author: United States. Navy
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Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Official Register of the United States
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1338
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1338
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The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year Book for ...
Author: George Edward Plumbe
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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