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3 stories matching easi
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- Ninety-Eight More Arrive — and Some Already Regret It
The Filipino Forum asks whether anything can stop the stream of young Filipinos crossing the Pacific for Seattle, even as new arrivals discover the hardship the papers warned them about.
- Counting the Invisible: A Census of Filipinos in the Pacific Northwest
A 1929 study estimates roughly 7,000 Filipino workers scattered from Seattle to Alaska — and admits the numbers are guesswork, because many hid their identities from the people counting them.
- “Close Your Gates to Us — But Give Us Independence First”
A Filipino student in Seattle goes before the Labor Union's legislative committee to head off an exclusion bill, and finds the union men surprisingly reasonable — because independence, he argues, gives them exactly what they want anyway.