Category: <span>Statehood Countdown</span>

At our Statehood Countdown halfway point, we’re looking at correspondence from 1956 between Claire Engel, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, and Robert C. Hill, Assistant Secretary for the Secretary of State.  This document reaffirms the State Department policy that Statehood would “strengthen the United States position in the United Nations and…

Continuing week two of this Statehood Countdown, we’re looking at correspondence from 1954 between Lincoln Fairley, Research Director of the ILWU and Jack Hall, Regional Director of the ILWU, Local 142, in Hawaii. Besides the momentary lapse of support for statehood by the ILWU, this document describes the Puerto Rican commonwealth and what that might…

One week into the “Statehood Countdown,” we’re looking at correspondence from 1955 between J. Ernest Wilkins, Assistant Secretary of Labor and Francis O. Wilcox, Assistant Secretary of State. For those who’ve been keeping up with this Statehood Countdown, you might recall that the exchange between Assistant Secretary of State Wilcox and Senator Knowland took place…

In 1949, the Dept of Labor, with the help of the AFL and the British and Dutch labor unions started a new international union called the International Congress of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) to confront the communist influenced World Federations of Trade Unions (WFTU), in what a 1951 Business Week article refers to as the…

Following yesterday’s “Statehood Countdown #16,” in which the ILWU Local 142, 2nd Biennial, presented a resolution calling for the United States to reverse its vote cast in the United Nations General Assembly calling for the U.S. to support independence of territories; today, I’m including a document written by Edward P. Noziglia, Office of Dependent Area…

 In this “Statehood Countdown,” we’re looking at four resolutions delivered to the ILWU Local 142, 2nd Biennial Local Convention at the Hilo Armory in September 1955. The four resolutions on World Peace, World Trade, Capital Punishment, and Statehood for Hawaii. This document not only offers insight as to what were some of the major conditions…

Continuing our “Statehood Countdown,” we’re looking at the correspondence between Benjamin Gerig, the Director of the Office of Dependent Area Affairs, and D. Protitch, the Under-Secretary for Trusteeship and Information from the United Nation’s office of Non-Self-Governing Territories. These documents trace the movement of information from the Territory of Hawaii’s Governor’s Office to the Department…

original Continuing our “Statehood Countdown,” we’re looking at a document from the Congressional Record, July 27, 1956. E.L. Bartlett (the Alaskan equivalent to Hawaii’s Territorial Delegate John Burns), addressed the House regarding the issue of Alaska’s and Hawaii’s submission to the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. Contained in this document is Assistant Secretary of…

As a continuation of Statehood Hawaii‘s “Statehood Countdown,” we’re looking at the document given to Mr. Bolard More, Officer in Charge of Non-Self-Governing Territories Affairs of the Department of State, by M. Perez-Guerrero, Director of the Division of Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories at the UN. This document contains the information given to the UN by…

As a continuation of Statehood Hawaiiʻ s “Statehood Countdown,” weʻ re looking at the document given to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles by Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, Francis O. Wilcox. This document contains the procedure by which Hawaii could be removed from the UN list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. Francis O….