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Article about the Seattle Library Board's plan for its annual banquet at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel. Clarence Arai was a member of the board.

Article about Clarence Arai's election to the presidency of the Seattle chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League.

Reprint of the Talbot Mine of Renton accounts payable journal from 1880 Pages marked reference Chinese workers of companies. Wa Chong is the most prominent and repetative.

Story of the transfer of a Chinese home to the Peabody Essex Museum. House was a merchant's house from Southeast China.

Dispute between rival cannery workers' unions held the prospect of a delay in the salmon fishing industry.

A settlement over the dispute between the AFL and CIO over who should represent the Alaska cannery workers seemed to be resolved when there was agreement that the matter should be taken up by vote.

Rival Japanese and Filipino cannery workers' unions met in court to air their dispute over alleged discrimination by their unions.

A judge granted a temporary restraining order against the AFof L, its president William Green, and the local organizer Leo Flynn at the request of the Cannery Workers and Farm Laborers Union from recognizing a rival union as the representative of…

A halt in Alaska shipping resulted from picketing by a Japanese cannery workers' union at the waterfront where ships bound for Alaska affected.