
Hawaiʻi's Journey to Statehood | The Pineapple King | 2
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Dole's Pineapple Plantation
Hawaii had been a magnet for immigrant agricultural workers from Japan Portugal and especially China. After 1900 Japanese laborers began to outnumber Chinese on Hawaii sugar plantations. By 1909 most of Dole's field and cannery workers were Japanese plus some Portuguese and a growing number of Filipinos. Native Hawaiians also worked in the industry, but immigrants comprised an ever larger portion of Hawaii's population.
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