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Profile of Carl Damaso
Information about Filipino labor leader Carl Damaso of Hawaii.
Calixto Camesa was born in 1917 in the
town of San Felipe in the Zambales Province
of the Philippines.
He traveled to Hawaii in 1931, when he was only
14 years old, to work on one of Hawaii's sugar plantations.
In 1934 he was one of the organizers of a Filipino
sugar worker's strike at the Ola'a Plantation on the
Big Island of Hawaii. After that incident he was not
able to get a job on any of Hawaii's plantations. He
traveled to Pu'unene, Maui and helped Antonio Fagel organize
a Filipino worker's strike.
During World War II he worked at Pearl Harbor, and
after the war he worked for Catle and Cooke as a stevedore.
He joined the ILWU and he organized Filipino workers
during the 1946 and 1949 sugar strikes in Hawaii. Between
1964 and 1981 he held the ILWU offices of Director of
the Oahu Division and President of the Hawaii branch
of the ILWU.
Calixto "Carl" Camesa died on January 26, 1990.
See Also
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Filipino Culture in Hawaii
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Immigration From the Philippines to Hawaii
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Immigration of Other Ethnic Groups to Hawaii
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