Tutubis Julian and Linda kick off their unique version of a Centennial Celebration

One hundred years ago, at Honolulu Harbor, the 20th of December, 15 Filipinos arrived on board the SS Doric. 1906 marked the beginning of an agressive campaign for the recruitment of Filipino farm laborers by the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Assoc. to work on the sugar plantations. Sugar was king those days, and newly opened plantations were in desperate need of plentiful labor supply. By the 1930s the Filipino workers had become the majority of the plantation workforce, working on the plantations for 12 hours in the sugar mill, or 10 hours in the cane fields interrupted with a 15 minute breakfast, a 30 minute lunch and occasional pauses for water. The last group of 6000 plantation workers from the Ilocos arrived shortly before Philippine Independence was regained from the United States in 1946. After that, the quota was limited to 50 a year, later increased to 100.

It was only toward the late 1950s that immigration laws enabled Filipinos already in Hawaii to get their families beyond the quotas. In 1965, immigration laws were liberalized to admit not only family members but also professionals, including doctors, nurses, engineers, lawyers, accountants, teachers, health technicians and others with college educations

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