Protested and defeated a bill submitted in the territorial legislature of Alaska which prohibited salmon canneries to employ more than 50 percent nonresident workersthis bill threatened the jobs of some 2.000 Filipinos. Negotiated the settlement of the first organized strike of Filipino labor in the Pacific coast. Six thousand Filipino asparagus pickers were affected. under the terms of the settlement the growers agreed to restore 45 percent of the wage cut they had imposed. At about the same time. a large automobile manufacturer which had announced that all noncitizens would be dismissed by the company. agreed upon the protest of Commissioner Elizalde to amend the dismissal order to exempt Filipinos. Scored a victory in 1940 in the form of increased wages for all strawberry pickers in Sacramento. Calif.
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