Jack Hall (trade unionist)
American labor organizer and trade unionist (1915-1971)
Jack Wayne Hall (February 28, 1915 – January 2, 1971) was an American labor organizer and trade unionist. He was the Hawaii Regional Director of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
Early life
Hall was born in Ashland, Wisconsin, on February 28, 1915. When he was a child, his mother committed suicide. He was raised in Los Angeles by his grandmother.
After graduating from Huntington Park High School in 1931, Hall became a merchant seaman and sailed aboard the SS President Hoover. His experience traveling in Asia and witnessing poverty and the effects of colonialism led him to become a communist.
Career
Hall's first labor strike was the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike as a member of the Sailors Union of the Pacific.
Hall arrived in Hawaii in 1935, where he wrote for a newspaper called The Voice of Labor. In 1944 he was named Hawaii's first regional director for the ILWU. He then led a drive that organized plantation and dock workers as one interracial union.
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