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Oahu sugar strike of 1920 | |||
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![]() Media coverage of the Oahu sugar strike of 1920 overlaid on the painting Maui Sugar Plantation by Jules Tavernier | |||
Date | 19 January – 1 July 1920 | ||
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The Oahu sugar strike of 1920 was a multiracial strike in Hawaii of two unions, the Filipino American Filipino Labor Union and the Japanese American Federation of Japanese Labor. The labor action involved 8,300 sugar plantation field workers out on strike from January to July 1920.
The unions' demands for a pay increase were met by the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association. Some 150 evicted workers and their family members died of the epidemic Spanish flu during the strike, with their poor living conditions presumably contributing to their deaths.