Chris D. Mensalvas photograph collection, 1937-1956 [graphic]. 1937-1956.

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Chris D. Mensalvas photograph collection, 1937-1956 [graphic]. 1937-1956.

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The collection consists of three photographs: two of Filipino cannery workers in Alaska, and one of union members in Seattle submitting a donation for a strike in Hawaii.

3 photographic prints (1 folder)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7778959

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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...