Karl Yoneda
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Karl Gozo Yoneda was a Japanese American activist, union organizer, World War II veteran and author. He played a substantial role in the founding of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
Portrait by Dorothea Lange, 1942
Karl Yoneda carrying Kropotkin's Memoirs of a Revolutionist in Hiroshima, 1923
Karl Yoneda and Elaine Buchman in Los Angeles, March 1933
A section of a leaflet issued by the Japanese Agricultural Workers Union Organizing Committee announcing a mass meeting of asparagus workers in Sacramento, California, 1935
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union is a labor union which primarily represents dock workers on the West Coast of the United States, Hawaii, and in British Columbia, Canada; on the East Co
Karl Yoneda
…May 8, 1999) was a Japanese American activist, union organizer, World War II veteran and author. He played a substantial role in the founding of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. Born in Glendale, California in 1906 to Japanese immigrants, Hideo and Kazu. In 1913, Yoneda's father, now diagnosed with tuberculosis, took the family…
Harry Bridges led the ILWU from 1934 to 1977
ILWU headquarters in San Francisco
Longshore worker and crane operator Al Webster joined the Seattle march on May 1, 2007 to call for an end to the Iraq war.