In the 20th century, Filipino men were imported by the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association to Hawaii as "skilled laborers" from 1906 to 1946 mainly from the Ilocos region of the Philippines.
[1] The Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association approved a plan to recruit labor from the Philippines in April 1906 and asked Albert F. Judd to represent them.
[2] The first Filipino farm laborers in Hawaii arrived on December 20, 1906 from Candon, Ilocos Sur, aboard the SS Doric (1883).
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