February 1919
Labor organizingBook sources
Seattle’s general strike reveals limits of solidarity with Japanese workers
Seattle, Washington
Japanese workers supported Seattle’s general strike while remaining outside full participation in the city’s established labor institutions. Their segregated unions could attend Central Labor Council meetings but lacked voting rights there.
Dates preserve the source’s precision. This entry is part of a selected historical record; its qualifications and sources are retained below.
Context / qualification
Participation in the strike did not erase institutional racial exclusion. The voting restriction cited here concerns the Central Labor Council; it is not a claim about every decision-making body during the strike.
Sources
- Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, chapter 15, pp. 377–380; supplied print pages, edition/year unidentified
- University of Washington Seattle General Strike Project: Japanese workers and exclusion ↗