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September 9 - The Hanapepe Massacre
On this day in Labor History the year was 1924. Sixteen striking Filipino sugar workers on the Hawaiian island of Kauaiwere killed by police. This incident is known as the Hanapepe Massacre. Filipinos began immigrating to Hawaii to work on sugar plantations in 1906.
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