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Chris Mensalvas (Chris Delarna Mensalvas) was born on 24 June, 1909 in San Manuel, Pangasinan, Philippine Islands, is a Chris Delarna Mensalvas. Discover Chris Mensalvas's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?

Popular As Chris Delarna Mensalvas
Occupation labor union organizer
Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 24 June, 1909
Birthday 24 June
Birthplace San Manuel, Pangasinan, Philippine Islands
Date of death 11 April, 1978
Died Place United States
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1909

Chris Delarna Mensalvas, also archived as Chris D.. Mensalvas and Chris D.. Mensalves (June 24, 1909 – April 11, 1978 ) was a Filipino American union organizer most active during the 1940s and 1950s.

A communist and leader of the immigrant Filipino labor movement in the Pacific Northwest, Mensalvas was closely associated with famous Filipino American author and activist Carlos Bulosan as well as Ernesto Mangaoang and Philip Vera Cruz.

Mensalvas was born to Mr. and Mrs. Juan Mensalvas in the San Manuel, Pangasinan province of the Philippines.

As the third youngest son in a family of five siblings, he belonged to a group of educated Filipinos whose ownership of small plots of land became increasingly threatened by wealthy landlords The Philippines had just become a colonial territory of the United States as a result of the Spanish–American War at this time.

Because trade relations between the Philippines and the United States protected both from tariffs, the Philippines experienced rapid urbanization that put pressure on the agricultural sector to be more efficient through economies of scale.

1927

His primary schooling at Lingayen, the only school in Pangasinan, and the increasing economic pressure on his family pushed him to migrate in 1927 for educational opportunities.

At first, Mensalvas aspired to attend college in the University of California, Los Angeles to be a lawyer.

He provided for his tuition and board by working as a "school boy" while getting involved with the community to establish the Pangasinan Association of Los Angeles.

Dissatisfied with the discrimination and racism that he experienced as a Filipino immigrant, he ended up dropping out after three years to work in the farms.

Despite the racial and gender discrimination that prevented him from access to opportunities, his years as a student still endowed him status and credibility within the Filipino community.

1947

"I thought I was going to complete my education here. I went to school in LA to be a lawyer. But I finally found out that Filipinos cannot practice law in this country. They cannot even own farms, nothing we can do. I got so disgusted I said, "Why am I studying law when I can't practice law in the United States.["] So I quit. I spent three years in college. And then I went to organize people on the farms. In those three years, his exposure to communism and labor activism prepared him to work as the business agent for Local 266 of the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packinghouse, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA), which represented Filipino-American Alaska cannery workers based in Portland. After the death of his second wife, Margie Leitz, from childbirth in 1947, he served Local 7, based in Seattle, as their publicity director for a year before moving to Stockton to lead efforts in the 1948 Stockton Asparagus strike.

The strike ended up being disastrous notwithstanding the subsequent court cases that drained the union members of their financial resources.

Local 266 merged with Local 7 to become Local 37 of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) in what is known as dual unionism.

1949

Local 37 would go on to be recognized as "the country's first Filipino-led union " and he served as President of the merged entity from 1949 to 1959.

1950

The McCarran International Security Act of 1950 required the registration of any individual with communist associations.

Once registered, immigration officials filed a motion to reclassify communists as "subversive" aliens, which are considered grounds for deportation.

Chris Mensalvas was released under habeas corpus and he made plans to move to the Philippines after the event.

Not wanting to bring more attention to the case, he temporarily settled in Hawaii to participate in the Longshoremen's Union there as a business agent and staff organizer.

1952

In 1952, Mensalvas invited Carlos Bulosan to edit the yearbook for ILWU Local 37.

The yearbook celebrates the leftist political orientation of the union, and attributes its victories against the government legislations of Taft-Hartley and the McCarran International Security Act to inter-union solidarity and dedication to liberalism.

During the McCarthy Era, Mensalvas and other leaders of the ILWU Local 7, including Ernesto Mangaoang, were arrested and charged for being associated with the Communist party.

1976

He returned to Seattle's Chinatown and spent the rest of his days running for positions in the Cannery Workers Field Labor Union, filling in the role of trustee in 1976.

1978

He died on April 11, 1978, from a fire in his Downtowner Apartments room.

Cause of death is smoke inhalation.