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DESCRIPTION:ILWU and Japanese Americans - Presentation\n Chair, Peter Yamamoto; 
 presenter, Harvey Schwartz; comment, Larry Yamamoto.\nOn Feb. 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 secretary-treasurer of the California State 
 CIO Industrial Union Council. Soon he would begin his fabled 44 year career 
 as ILWU secretary-treasurer. But on that February 1942 day, just weeks 
 after Imperial Japan’s Pearl Harbor raid, Goldblatt testified before a 
 Congressional committee set up to review the internment program. There, he 
 condemned the government’s resort to concentration camps and charged 
 “this entire episode of hysteria and mob chant against the native-born 
 Japanese will form a dark page of American history.”\nGoldblatt’s 
 prediction, of course, came true. In this forum, we will explore 
 Goldblatt’s courageous 1942 stand and many other phases of the 
 multi-racial ILWU’s historical experience with Japanese-Americans. During 
 its early days in the mid-1930s under Harry Bridges, the legendary 
 union’s founding president, the ILWU stood against discrimination and for 
 civil rights and social justice. It maintained this policy through its 
 mid-1940s organization of 25,000 Japanese and other Asian agricultural 
 workers in Hawaii and still practices it. We will trace these aspects of 
 ILWU history in our forum, which will be chaired by Peter Yamamoto of the 
 NJAHS. Harvey Schwartz, Curator of the ILWU Oral History Collection, will 
 be our main presenter. Larry Yamamoto, Bay Area artist and retired ILWU 
 longshore worker, will be our commentator. \nSee 
 also:\nhttps://www.njahs.org/\nhttp://www.ilwu.org/history/oral-histories/\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2014/2014schedule.htm\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/21/18757715.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: ILWU and Japanese Americans
LOCATION:National Japanese American Historical Society - 1684 Post St., San 
 Francisco.  Buses: 2, 3, 22, 38\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/21/18757715.php
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