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3 stories matching definit
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- Bremerton's Filipinos Build a Mutual-Aid Society — and a Young Ally Wins Their Hearts
A new Filipino association in Bremerton adopts a platform of unity and self-help, honors a Japanese-American woman who organized their Rizal Day celebration, and sets its sights on Philippine independence.
- Broke at the End of Every Cannery Season: A Filipino Columnist's Plea for a Savings System
Writing for Seattle's Filipino community in 1928, Macario C. Rebodos traces the hard cycle of Alaskan cannery work and agricultural harvests — money earned, money spent, and pawnshops waiting at the end of it — and argues that an endowment policy is the only discipline that will break it.
- A University of Washington Scholar Asks Why Filipino Workers Are Being Pushed Out
In 1928, as Congress weighed excluding Filipinos from the United States, a UW researcher set out to document the migration — and the labor resentments driving it — across Washington, Oregon and Alaska.