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DESCRIPTION:The ILWU and Japanese Americans (Presentation)\nBy Harvey Schwartz\nOn 
 February 23, 1942, just weeks after Imperial Japan’s raid on Pearl 
 Harbor, CIO officer and later long-serving ILWU Secretary-Treasurer Louis 
 Goldblatt testified before a Congressional committee established to review 
 President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s executive order calling for the 
 internment of 110,000 Japanese-Americans in “relocation” camps for the 
 duration of World War II. That day Goldblatt 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 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 1940s organization of 25,000 Japanese and other Asian 
 agricultural workers in Hawaii and still practices it. We will trace all of 
 this history in our program, which will feature Peter Yamamoto of the 
 NJAHS, chair; Harvey Schwartz, curator of the ILWU Oral History Collection, 
 presenter; and Larry Yamamoto, Bay Area artist and retired ILWU longshore 
 worker and commentator.\nWhen America Was Overcome with Anti-Japanese 
 Xenophobia during WWII, One Union Fought Back - by Peter Cole \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/06/14/18787528.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: The ILWU and Japanese Americans
LOCATION:1684 Post St., San Francisco. Buses:  2,3, 38 \n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/06/14/18787528.php
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