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Profile of Pablo Manlapit
Photo and bio of Pablo Manlapit,
organizer of Filipino workers on Hawaii's sugar plantations in
the 1920's.
Pablo Manlapit was born in the Philippines on January 17, 1891.
He traveled to Hawaii in 1910 to work for the
Hamakua Mill Company.
While he was working on the plantation, he
took night classes, and eventually he left the
plantation to become a labor clerk. In the 1920's
he became a lawyer, and he became a spokesperson
for the Filipino labor movement.
He founded the Filipino Labor Union in 1919 and
be began recruiting Filipino workers
from Hawaii's sugar plantations.
In 1920 he helped Japanese and Filipinos workers organize
a strike for higher wages. They lost that strike,
but they learned to work together for the common good.
That same year Manlapit joined Japanese
labor leaders to form the Higher Wave Movement.
In 1924 Manlapit led an eight-month strike of
plantation workers on the island of Kauai. Sixteen workers and
four policemen were killed on September 9, 1924
in gun battle between police and Kauai workers.
This incident is known as the "Hanapepe Massacre".
Pablo Manlapit was not present at that uprising
but he was arrested, along with sixty other Filipinos,
and tried for conspiracy. He was convicted and was
given a sentence of two to ten years in Oahu Prison.
He moved to California after his release from prison.
In 1933 he moved back to Hawaii.He was deported
and sent back to the Philippines, where he died
on April 15, 1969.
TITLE: Unbending Cane: Pablo Manlapit
AUTHOR: Melinda Tria Kerkvliet, Ph.D.
PUBLISHER: University of Hawaii Press
ORIGINAL PUBLICATION DATE: 2002
NUMBER OF PAGES: 166
FULL TITLE: Unbending Cane: Pablo Manlapit,
A Filipino Labor Leader in Hawaii
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See also:
Wikipedia on Pablo Manlapit
Philippine News on Pablo Manlapit
Plantation Worker Gave Filipinos a Voice
Filipino Strikes in Hawaii: 1920 and 1924
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