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- “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.
- 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.