Karl Yoneda

Karl Yoneda

Infobox Person
name=Karl Yoneda



caption=Lange, 1942
birth_name=Goso Yoneda
birth_date=1906
birth_place=Glendale, California
death_date=death year and age|1999|1906
ethnicity=Japanese
known_for=International Longshore Workers Union
Communist Party organizer

Karl Yoneda (born Goso Yoneda, 1906 – 1999) was a Japanese-American activist, union organizer, and author. He played a substantial role in the founding of the International Longshore Workers' Union.

Early life

Born in Glendale, California in 1906 to Japanese immigrants, Yoneda read the writings of Karl Marx and Vasili Eroshenko, who he eventually met in 1922.http://shapingsf.ctyme.com/cgi-bin/library?e=d-000-00---0ssf--00-0-0--0prompt-10---4------0-1l--1-en-50---20-help---00031-001-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=ssf&cl=CL3.1.20&d=HASH0130f10f1b1d13ec5a643136] To honor Karl Marx, Yoneda changed his first name to Karl. In 1913, Yoneda's father, now diagnosed with tuberculosis, took the family to Japan. ,http://www.well.com/user/sfflier/heroics-aftermath.html]

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