Mr. Speaker. I want to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the more than three million FilipinoAmericans and Filipino immigrants across the United States on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of Filipino Migration to the United States. This is a significant milestone in the storied tradition of Filipinos in our Nation ever since the first fifteen farm workers. called sakadas. were recruited by the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association. arriving in Hawaii on December 20. 1906. They were to become the precursors to millions of other contract workers. who soon came to build America in the succeeding years. It was in 1919 that Filipino leader Pablo Manlapit organized the first labor union to demand higher wages and better working conditions for the farm workers of Hawaii.
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