Interview with Ah Quon McElrath #3 6/17/98
Continued interview with Ah Quon McElrath recorded on June 17, 1998 about the 1949 Dock Strike. Topics include the Dock Seizure Act, the newspaper editorial series "Dear Joe" published in the Honolulu Advertiser and how it stirred up fear against unions, personal feelings toward the strike, the soup kitchen, lingering anti-communism after the strike, the arrest of the Hawaiʻi Seven, and implications of the longshoreman strike on other labor unions in Hawaiʻi.
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