Cannery Worker Photographs | Fahns Collection, Fred and Dorothy Cordova | Filipino American Activism Across Three Generations | Photo and Document Gallery | Civil Rights & Labor History Consortium

Civil Rights & Labor History Consortium | Photo and Document Gallery | Filipino American Activism Across Three Generations | Fahns Collection, Fred and Dorothy Cordova | Cannery Worker Photographs

Marching under the banner "Alaska for Alaskans."

Cannery at Ketchilikan Alaska

Cannery at Ketchilikan Alaska

Time off at a cannery at Ketchilikan Alaska, 1926

Working cannery at Ketchilikan Alaska

Filipino salmon processing workers in Alaska were known as the "Alaskeros"

Local 7 proudly owned this spacious three-story building on the corner of 2nd and Main.

Cannery Workers' and Farm Laborers' Union Local 18257 founding members 1933

Local 18257 members on Labor day 1936

CWFLU 1938 election

Memorial service for slain leaders Virgil Duyungan and Aurelio Simon 1936

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

These University of Washington students spend part of the year in the canneries and fields in 1936

To Alaska April 27, 1939

Local 7's float in the 1938 Labor Day parade

labor day 1939

Labor day float from late 1930s with Margaret Ray Duyungan wife of president Virgil Duyungan

Lake Union pickets April 1939

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

local7 pics 1939

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

Local 7 members vote to ratify 1938 contract

Pictures taken by Salvadore Caballero during the 1938 season in the Alaska canneries

Pictures taken by Salvadore Caballero during the 1938 season in the Alaska canneries

Pictures taken by Salvadore Caballero during the 1938 season in the Alaska canneries

Pictures taken by Salvadore Caballero during the 1938 season in the Alaska canneries

Pictures taken by Salvadore Caballero during the 1938 season in the Alaska canneries

Pictures taken by Salvadore Caballero during the 1938 season in the Alaska canneries

After initially affiliating with the AFL, the Cannery and Farm Laborers union in 1937 joined the CIO

After initially affiliating with the AFL, the Cannery and Farm Laborers union in 1937 became Local 7 of UCAPAWA-CIO

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