Biography
Pablo Manlapit, the pioneering Filipino labor leader in Hawaii, organized the plantation workers' movement and led the great 1924 sugar strike. After the Hanapepe massacre, in which police killed sixteen strikers, the territory prosecuted Manlapit rather than the killers: convicted on a subornation-of-perjury charge widely regarded as retaliation for the strike, he was imprisoned in the Oahu Penitentiary — where the ILD listed him among America's class-war prisoners — and was paroled in 1927 on condition of exile to California. He returned in 1932 and was ultimately banished from the territory for his organizing.
Case
Oahu Penitentiary