Title:
In the tool shop at the plant of the Tuthill Spring Co., War Contract Manufacturers of heavy truck springs and ...
Date:
1943-05-14
Subject:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs
Note:
Full title:In the tool shop at the plant of the Tuthill Spring Co., War Contract Manufacturers of heavy truck springs and
spring accessories, George Y. Nakamura, competent tool machinist and welder, operates a heavy tool press. George, a former
resident of Portland Oregon, at the time of evacuation, was sent to the Minidoka Relocation Center. From there he volunteered
for sugar beet field work, and was immediately taken into the Franklin County Sugar Factory in Montana as a maintenance machinist.
On March 1, 1943, he secured permanent leave, and went to Chicago where, after joining the C.I.O. Machinists' Union, he immediately
found work at the Tuthill Spring Company. George is single, and his parents still reside at the Minidoka Relocation Center.<lb/>
Photographer: Parker, Tom<lb/> Chicago, Illinois.
Local Call Number:
WRA no. E-908
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In the tool shop at the plant of the Tuthill Spring Co., War Contract Manufacturers of heavy truck springs and ...