Cannery Workers' and Farm Laborers' Union Local 18257 obtains a charter from the American Federation of Labor 1933. Back left: Tony Rodrigo. Front left: Joe Mislang; President Virgil Duyungan. Front right: Frank Alonzo.

Men wait on pier 40 to board the ship that will take them north. April 27, 1939.

Time off at a cannery at Ketchilikan Alaska, 1926

Working cannery at Ketchilikan Alaska

Union pioneers Virgil Duyungan, Tony Rodrigo, CB Mislang, Espiritu in 1933

Marching under the banner "Alaska for Alaskans," a rival AFL sponsored union tried unsuccessfully to capture the cannery contracts in 1939

Cannery at Ketchilikan Alaska

To Alaska April 27, 1939.

Salvadore Caballero kept a scrapbook of photos taken during the 1938 season in the Alaska canneries, including these four pages.

Local 7 members vote to ratify 1938 contract.

Local 7's float in the 1938 Labor Day parade.

Labor day float from the early 1930s with Margaret Ray Duyungan wife of president Virgil Duyungan. 

These University of Washington students spend part of the year in the canneries and fields. 1936. Photo from the collection of Julius Ruiz, front row third from left.

Local 18257 members on Labor day 1936.

Memorial service for slain leaders Virgil Duyungan and Aurelio Simon 1936.

After initially affiliating with the AFL, the Cannery and Farm Laborers union in 1937 joined the CIO, becoming Local 7 of the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packinghouse, and Allied Workers of America.

After initially affiliating with the AFL, the Cannery and Farm Laborers union in 1937 became Local 7 of UCAPAWA-CIO. Chris Mensalvas (front right center) served on the UCAPAWA executive council in 1937. 

Local 7 leaders Ernesto Mangaoang, Vincent Navea, Irineo Cabatit in early 1940s.

Local 7 proudly owned this spacious three-story building on the corner of 2nd and Main. Inside was with the dispatching hall, reading room, and offices.

Filipino salmon processing workers in Alaska, know as the "Alaskeros" (above), who worked in Alaska in the summer and then the "farm factories" of California and eastern Washington in other seasons. .