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Jack Hall came ashore at Honolulu Harbor as an insignificant seaman and quickly took his place at the forefront of those who forged Hawaii's destiny. A Spark is Struck! is Hall's story—and the story behind the International Longshore & Warehouse Union in the Hawaiian Islands. Together, the man and the union helped incite a bloodless revolution, transforming Hawaii from the neo-colonialist paradise of a wealthy few to one of the most liberal states in the nation. It was an era of landmark events: the Red Scare, the consolidation of power, major labor strikes in the fields and on the docks. Here is the inside story of a power broker's career and a union s role in shaping today's Hawaii.
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About the Author:
Sanford Zalburg covered Jack Hall and his union as a reporter for The Honolulu Advertiser and continued this close relationship while city editor of The Advertiser from 1959 to 1972. His meticulous research for A Spark is Struck!, first released in 1979, included interviews with more than 200 people and the analysis of thousands of letters, papers and documents in ILWU libraries in Hawaii and San Francisco.
Review:
I have to admit that I had A Spark Is Struck in a pile of books on a chair for a long time before I picked it up. The story behind Hawaii's International Longshore & Warehouse Union? But author Sanford Zalburg immediately reminded me that, when it's well-told, history makes for zesty reading. Take, for example, the 1946 sugar plantation-workers' strike, nearly undone by a white-rice shortage. "Locals 150 and 152 do not want brown [rice] under any circumstances," a union leader frantically reported at the time.
It doesn't hurt that Zalburg's main subject, union leader and labor-movement activist Jack Hall, is so interesting. This is a guy who ran away from home at age 12 and by 17 was a seaman alighting in Honolulu. Hall's audacity helped give workers new strength, but drinking problems plagued him. "Like five blind men touching the elephant, your opinion of him depended on where you touched him," notes Zalburg.
A Spark Is Struck was originally published in 1979, but has been re-released by Watermark Publishing (a sister company to PacificBasin, which owns this magazine). In 2008, it still seems fresh. --Kathryn Drury Wagner, HONOLULU Magazine
It doesn't hurt that Zalburg's main subject, union leader and labor-movement activist Jack Hall, is so interesting. This is a guy who ran away from home at age 12 and by 17 was a seaman alighting in Honolulu. Hall's audacity helped give workers new strength, but drinking problems plagued him. "Like five blind men touching the elephant, your opinion of him depended on where you touched him," notes Zalburg.
A Spark Is Struck was originally published in 1979, but has been re-released by Watermark Publishing (a sister company to PacificBasin, which owns this magazine). In 2008, it still seems fresh. --Kathryn Drury Wagner, HONOLULU Magazine
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- PublisherUniversity Press of Hawaii
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 0824806727
- ISBN 13 9780824806729
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages645
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