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DESCRIPTION:The ILWU and Asian Americans \nPresentation by Harvey Schwartz, moderated 
 by Rachel Inouye \n On February 23, 1942, four days after President 
 Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the internment of 110,000 Japanese 
 Americans in World War II “relocation” camps, ILWU stalwart Louis 
 Goldblatt was serving as secretary-treasurer of the California State 
 Industrial Union Council, CIO. A few months later, he would begin his 
 remarkable 44 year run as ILWU International secretary-treasurer, but on 
 that February day, just weeks removed from Imperial Japan’s raid on Pearl 
 Harbor, Goldblatt testified before the Select Committee Investigating 
 National Defense Migration of the U.S. House of Representatives. There, he 
 condemned America’s resort to concentration camps and charged that 
 “this entire episode of hysteria and mob chant against the native-born 
 Japanese will form a dark page of American history.”\n\nGoldblatt’s 
 prediction, of course, came true. In this forum, we will explore 
 Goldblatt’s courageous 1942 stand and as well as numerous other phases of 
 the multi-racial ILWU’s historical experience with the Japanese-American 
 and other Asian-American communities. From its beginning in the mid-1930s 
 under Harry Bridges, legendary founding president, the ILWU has stood 
 against discrimination and for civil rights, civil liberties, social 
 justice, and equal opportunity for all. By and large, it has carried this 
 out in practice from its early days through its 1943-1945 organizing of 
 25,000 Japanese and Filipino agricultural workers in Hawaii and well 
 beyond. We will trace these aspects of the ILWU’s history in our forum, 
 which will be moderated by Rachel Inouye, Program Coordinator for the 
 National Japanese American Historical Society. Harvey Schwartz, Curator of 
 the ILWU Oral History Collection, will be our main presenter.\n\nSee 
 also:\nhttp://www.njahs.org/\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2013/2013schedule.htm\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/06/16/18738586.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: The ILWU and Asian Americans
LOCATION:National Japanese American Historical Society - 1684 Post St., San 
 Francisco.  Buses:  2, 3, 38 to Webster,  22 Fillmore to Post.\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/06/16/18738586.php
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