The Japanese Conspiracy

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The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920

By Masayo Umezawa Duus
University of California Press

In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to $1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in Hawaii and, as Masayo Duus demonstrates in this book, had consequences reaching all the way up to the eve of World War II.