Show Need Farm or Factory Help Thousands of Workers In Japanese Relocation Camps Waiting to Be Hired Nearly Every Trade Found Among Loyal Japanese Americans Farmers and factory own own- owners owners ers who are looking anxIously about for help have available I of an almost untapped supply intelligent and S workers These people are i ithe the Americans of Japa Japanese Japanese I nese ancestry who are now m I the ten relocation camps m in inthe the West and Southwest i The War Relocation AuthorIty has I found employment for 16 and Is seeking to place 25 more by the I first of the year More than one one- i third of these American Japanese are farmers or have done some agri agricultural I cultural work Others are skilled mechanics and many are In professions Occupations In fact fact range from doctors to Most of these people are American born bornand bornand and are considered loyal Joyal to the United States These workers may Ie be hired per permanently permanently or seasonally by any farm farmer farmen er en or other err en anywhere In b Inthe the country ex ept In the mIlItary zone a strip running along the Pa Pacific coast Procedure whereby American Japanese and loyal aliens are brought out of the camps and placed I I In jobs is a simple one A reloca I ton bon office In each area has a staff of officers who look for jobs in di I ferent kinds of employment farm farmIng farming Ing dairying poultry raising our nur nursery sery domestic restaurant and hotel work skIlled and unskilled labor factory work various trades and pro professions such as dentistry medicine engineering industrial designing Job offers recent ed are screened as to suitability of wage and work working working ing standards If legitimate the offer is sent to any or all of the 10 relocation centers whIch are m the states of California ArIZona Idaho Utah Wyoming Colorado and Ax Ar Arkansas kansas In the camp job ob offers are cata catalogued posted In mess halls and administrative buildings and printed In the camp newspaper Each evac evacuee lee uee has filed his working and each camp has an em employment employment staff to assist the proper person to get the proper lob Job The evacuee Is not forced to take a lob Job He can select one for which he thinks he is best qualified He makes his own arrangements He corresponds With hIs prospect ye ve em employ plo ploy er and If accepted Worms informs camp authorities who ho then place him himon on indefinite leave means he heis heis is ent tIed to lea leas e a camp and go anywhere In the United States ex except except the forbidden reg ons Both American citizens of Japa Japanese nest nese ancestry and Japanese aliens are allowed to leave the on camps in the West once their loyalty has been assured Each evacuee IS investigated by the War Relocation authority and males of draft age are checked upon by a joint board In Washington composed of the m in intelligence departments of the armed forces and officIals Also each evacuee is checked against FBI records On the other hand before an American Japanese settles In a corn com it is canvassed by officers who seek reasonable assur assurances antes ances from responsible officials and citIZens that local sentiment will not be against the newcomer IndefinIte leave usually IS granted only to an evacuee who has a place to go and means of support Each evacuee must Inform in Wash Washington Washington ington of any change m in job or ad address address dress An evacuee must receive the standard wage rate of the 1 F t kf j II pt e t SPINACH Miss tIomayo Yamato cultivates the dark green stuff on the broad acres of the Gila River Relocation center farm She for formerly merly worked In Fresno Calit Calif Thousands ot of skilled agricultural WOI kers like Miss Yamato are look tag for private employment rut rut- rutHe He can not enter as cheap labor s motto is No more moreno moreno no less than anyone else for the same w ork m in the same community Both an American citizen of Japa Japanese Japanese nese ancestry or a Japanese alien can obtain indefinite leave An alien Is checked more carefully and out outsIde outside sIde camp his movements have more restrictions procedure to move can Japanese out of the camps has been approved by the department of Justice the U S army and endorsed by the War Manpower commission as a contributIOn to natiOnal security and manpower needs s program of relocating AmerIcan Japanese began In the spring of 1942 when for military reasons some Japanese were taken from the southern third of ArIZona the western half of Oregon and Washington and placed m in 10 on centers In Inthe inthe the West officials point out that the centers are not internment camps or places of con The They were establIshed by bythe bythe the United States government for two chief chic purposes tb provide self sustaining communities where evac evacuees evacuees can contrIbute to their own sup support support port pending gradual r a 4 4 I p t s WELDER Many Japanese Japanese-Amer scans like George Y are excellent tradesmen Ue lie Is working in ChIcago at a farm implement factory whence he came from the l RelocatIOn center Ore where he was maintenance machin 1st into a normal American life and to serve as wartime homes for those who are unable or unfit to relocate In ord nary American communities Beginning January of th s year lint a program of steady depopulation of the centers by en res dents with good roc rec records of behaVIor to re enter private employment m in agriculture or indus industry Industry try Relocation offices were set up In Chicago Cleveland lew ew York Kan Kansas sas City Little Rock Salt Lake City and Denver to seek jObs for American Japanese Each relocatIon area has sub off ces The Chicago area for ex eC example ample covers Ind ana Illinois WIS Nis Minnesota and the eastern half of North Dakota Elmer L ShIrrell is supervIsor of the area Sub offices are located at Ind oIls Peoria Rockford M Mad son M s and Fargo RelocatIOn off officers cers there carryon carry on the same kind of employment and placement service given m in the area headquarters Model Iodel Communities Life m in an evacuation center is no p American Japanese were abruptly moved from their own homes and placed m in barracks which though adequately construct constructed constructed ed were bare of furniture had no running water toilets or any con conveniences we accept as normal A camp is land laid out m in blocks like a City Each block con contains tams two rows of barracks hous ng 12 living unIts Each block has ItS mess hall lavatories showers and meeting halL No family cooks for Itself but must eat With the other inhabitants tants of the block In mess halls which are staffed by fun full t me Amer AmerIcan scan Ican Japanese cooks and attendants Food for evacuees at camp IS re received from army quartermaster corps and cost must not exceed 45 cents per day per evacuee Each camp has schools churches playgrounds recreation halls YMCA unitS and sometimes a boy and girl scout troop Each camp has hasa a police force a fire department and each block is represented m in the camp council which meets regular regularly regularly ly with offic as als to determine camp on and other problems problems lems luch v inch come up Each family Is housed fed and If one member of the family Is work working mg ing the government gives a small monthly allotment from 2 to 3 50 to each member for cloth ng Any able bodied American Japa Japanese nose nese can work at the camp and gen can do the same job ob he d d on the outside American Japanese serve as doctors dentists nurses optometrIsts watchmakers clerks civil engineers carpenters masons farmers and m in many other trades Each one who works receIVes from a monthly salary from 12 to 19 depending on his job S c nee the staff at each camp is very small a huge amount of the admin adminIstrative administrative work is done by the evacuees evacuees ees who work as stenos bookkeepers bookkeepers ers tYPISts clerks interviewers translators tors switchboard opera operators tors etc ete each camp has co operative food and clothing stores a canteen no notion tion counters magaz ne racks and even a post office Most camps have large agricultural tracts and become largely self sustain ng American Japanese and Japanese aliens n-es n are known as Is Issei Issei sei Nisei and Issei are Jap Japanese Japanese anese born in Japan but who came here to live Nisei are second gen genera generation era bon Ja nese born In the Un t- t ted ted ed States and aDd citizens of this coun country country try K bel bei are AmerIcan born Japa Japanese nose nese who have gone back to Japan for education and then returned to America Invest gates K bees bels very closely watches them carefully and Is retIcent about giving them freedom Mostly Nisei Nisei The great bulk of the Japa Japanese Japanese nese m in thiS country at the outbreak of the war including the along the West coast are Nisei They are the young boys and girls the men and women who have lIved here all their lives and are just as American as we are They have broken away from Tap Jap Japanese anese customs Their thought IS AmerIcan thought They prefer AmerIcan food and our way of do doing mg ing things They like to litterbug Jitterbug go to mOVIes have coke dates and parties like any normal American Surveys have proven that the Nisei have a greater percentage of morn mem members bers With a college or university education than any racial group lD u the United States It Is the belief of the that the spreading of the American Jap- Jap Japanese Japanese anese throughout the nation instead of concentrated In groups along the coast will be a good thing both for all AmerIcans and for AmerIcan Japanese Approximately 8 AmerIcan Japanese are In the United States armed forces After Pearl Harbor they were given the opportunity to volunteer and thousands of boys en enlisted enlisted listed from the relocation camps Two large units at Camp Savage Minn and Camp Shelby M ss con contain tarn tain most of the American Japanese combat fighters From Hawaii alone I came a specIally p combat team of 2500 2 American Japanese boys At Camp Sa Savage age many are training to be interpreters and lan Ian language guage teachers Wherever they have been heen sta tined American Japanese sold ers have won high praise from their command ng officers They are training WIth extraordinary zeal even spending their free time m in military study and voluntary drills Instructors have to be keen and alert to avoid being tripped up by ques quest tons t ons It IS a saying amon these Japanese American soldiers that We have a year and three minutes to live meaning a year of had training and three minutes In the th of the fighting officIals have found that ade adequate adequate quate Jobs can be found for the evac evacuees evacuees but that housing is a serIOus problem ThIs IS especially true m in large cIties where booming war plants have caused a heavy influx of war workers In the smaller communities this condition Is less severe be believes Neves that a large measure of ItS success will depend Upon how well the AmerIcan Japanese relocate In small towns and agricultural areas arease e ez n gt z t a g- g r o f Q f f j tr F Ff a Fr r f lt tra k t t trA Wi t tr t a atA 4 I 1 s s n a 11 It j 1 r sr 1 W M a 7 JJ k x 0 t OVER Tn THE PLATE Strictly In Inthe Inthe the American tradition these Japa nose American s th grade boys play softball at recess at the Man Manzanar zanar relocation center in ID Caller ma |