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Pedro Calosa was born in La Union and migrated to Tayug during the early American Occupation period. He worked in Hawaii for a few years before organizing Filipino contract workers into a union in 1926 to demand better wages and living conditions, for which he was jailed and deported. In 1927, he returned to Tayug and founded the Philippine National Association in 1928 to end the suffering of the poor, gaining over 1,200 farmer members. As the leader of the 1929 Tayug Uprising against feudal systems, Calosa

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Reed Fish

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