Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1943-09-17
Nearly Every Trade
Found Among Loyal
Japanese : Americans

Farmers and factory owners
who are looking anxiously about
for help have available an al
most untapped supply of intel
igent and Industrious workers.
These people are the 10000
Americans of Japanese ances-
try who are now in the ten relo-
cation camps in the West and
Southwest.
The War Relocation Authority has
found employment for $4,000, and is
seeking to place $4,000 more by the
first of the year. More than one
third of these Acknowledgements
are farmers or have done some agri-
cultural work. Others are skilled
mechanics, and many are in pro-
fessions. Occupations, in fact, range
from doctors to ditchdiggers. Most
of these people are American born
and are considered loyal to the Unit
ed States.
These workers may be hired per-
manently or seasonally by any farm
er or other employer anywhere in
the country, except in the military
zone, strip running along the Pa
cific coast.
Procedure whereby American
Japanese and loyal aliens are
brought out of the camps and placed
in jobs is a simple one. A reloca-
ton office in each area has a staff
of officers who look for jobs in diff
ferent kinds of employment: farm
ing, dairying, poultry raising, nur-
sery, domestic, restaurant and hotel
work, skilled and unskilled labor,
factory work, various trades and pro-
fessions such as dentistry, medicine,
engineering, industrial designing.
Job offers received are screened
as to suitability of wage and work.
ing standards. If legitimate, the
offer is sent to any or all of the 10
relocation centers which are in the
states of California, Arizona, Idaho,
Utah, Wyoming, Colorado and Ar
kansas.
In the camp, job offers are cata-
logued, posted in mess halls and
administrative buildings, and printed
in the carsp newspaper. Each evac-
uee has filed his working qualifca-
tons and each camp has an en-
ployment staff to assist the proper
person to get the proper job.
The evacuee is not forced to take
job. He can select one for which
he thinks he is best qualified. He
makes his own arrangements. He
corresponds with his prospective en-
ployer and, if accepted, informs
camp authorities who then place him
on indefinite leave which means he
is entitled to leave camp and go
anywhere in the United States ex-
cept the forbidden regions.
Both American citizens of Japa-
nese ancestry and Japanese aliens
are allowed to leave the relocation
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 joint board
in Washington composed of the in
telligence departments of the armed
forces and WRA officials. Also, each
evacuee is checked against FBI
records.
On the other hand, before an
Acknowledgements settles in COM
munity, it is canvassed by WRA
officers who seek reasonable assur-
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 60 and means of support. Each
evacuee must inform WRA in Wash
ington of any change in job or ad-
dress. An evacuee must receive the
standard wage rate of the commu-
nifty. He can not enter as Cheap