Note: This is part of my (supposedly) Weekly AQ Wisdom special series. To see other posts in the series, click on the Best Bets tab at the top of any page here and scroll down to the “AQ McElrath” section. Material for this post was taken from information available at her Celebration of Life in February. “
“In 2006 I interviewed AQ on her remembrance of martial law. I was amazed to learn that during the middle of the war, in 1943, in defiance of martial law, she and Bob McElrath were organizing workers at the American Can plant across Iwilei Road from the Dole Cannery. She said they just went ahead and did their organizing work and no one stopped them. They apparently had signed up many or most in a union, at which point they had a meeting with Jack Hall. As soon as martial law ended they folded their organization into the ILWU, joining forces.
“I greatly admired the clarity and forthrightness of her anti-capitalist stance. It made her stronger.”
-Tom Coffman, Writer
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