This image from Chinese People in American shows a storefront with a sign announcing the 4th anniversary of the Chinese Workers’ Mutual Aid Association (CWMAA) commemorated on 5 Oct. 1941 in San Francisco. CWMAA was an organization founded by Chinese cannery workers in 1937, and was a part of the left movements. For a long time, up to the mid 1930s, the Chinese workers in San Francisco saw little benefit in the union movement for cannery workers as they were the beneficiaries of the dominant Chinese contract system; their participation in any union movements seems non-existent and paled in comparison … Continue reading Chinese Workers’ Mutual-Aid Ass’n