Title:
In the Chicago Plant of the Tuthill Spring Company, War Contract Manufacturers of heavy truck springs and spring accessories,
George ...
Date:
1943-05-14
Subject:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs
Note:
Full title:In the Chicago Plant of the Tuthill Spring Company, War Contract Manufacturers of heavy truck springs and spring
accessories, George Y. Nakamura prepares to electric weld a tool part. George is a competent tool machinist, and a member
of the Chicago branch of the C.I.O. Machinists' Union. He formerly lived in Portland, Oregon, where he pursued the same trade.
At the time of evacuation, he was sent to the Minidoka Relocation Center. After a few months he volunteered for sugar beet
work and was immediately placed in the Franklin County Sugar Factory in Montana as a maintenance machinist. He secured his
permanent leave March 1, 1943, went to Chicago, secured his Union Card and found immediate employment at the Tuthill Implement
Company. George is single, and his parents still reside at the Minidoka Center.<lb/> Photographer: Parker, Tom<lb/> Chicago,
Illinois.
Local Call Number:
WRA no. E-909
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In the Chicago Plant of the Tuthill Spring Company, War Contract Manufacturers of heavy truck springs and spring accessories,
George ...