Chris D. Mensalvas Photograph Collection 1937-1956

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Chris D. Mensalvas Photograph Collection 1937-1956

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Three photographs of Filipinos including cannery workers in Alaska, and union members submitting a donation for a strike on the island of Lanai in Hawaii.

3 photographic prints; 1 folder

eng,

University of Washington Libraries Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6366587

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Mensalvas, Chris D., -1977

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Chris Delarna Mensalvas (1909-1978) immigrated to the United States from the Philippines in 1927. He became an important figure in the Filipino labor movements of the 1940s and '50s, organizing unions and initiating strikes for reasonable working conditions and fair wages for farm and cannery workers. Mensalvas was president of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) Local 37 in Seattle -- the Filipino Alaska cannery workers union. He died in 1978. From the d...

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