Work leave

During World War II, Japanese Americans were seen as a source of replacement labor for the farms in Utah, Idaho, and Montana. Starting in May 1942, camp inmates could obtain temporary leaves to work in agriculture, either returning to the camps every night or living on the farm for an extended period. In 1942 alone, some 10,000 Japanese Americans left the camps to perform this seasonal work. Their labor was vital to the agriculture industry and thus to the war effort.

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doc Letter from Helen Francher to Tomoye Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-67)

About letter of reference for Tomoye

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-67/

doc Letter from Tomoye to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-236)

Describing the work she is doing for the family in Provo, visited with friends from Topaz

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-236/

doc Letter from Tomoye Takahashi to Henri Takahashi and Tomoyuki Nozawa (ddr-densho-410-235)

Describing her work as a domestic in Provo, Utah, likes the woman she is working for.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-235/

doc Instructions to Evacuees Volunteering for Employment Outside Relocation Centers and Assembly Centers (ddr-densho-410-52)

Instruction sheet issued by WRA

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-52/

doc Leave Permit for Group Work (ddr-densho-410-55)

Issued to Henri Takahashi

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-55/

doc Correspondence from turkey farm requested labor (ddr-densho-410-35)

Letter and telegrams with Tomoye Takahashi requesting her help recruiting four young men to work at the farm.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-35/

doc Letter from Claude Cornwall to Tomoye Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-609)

Approving leave for Tomoye to travel to Salt Lake City for an interview for a job at the University of Michigan

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-609/

doc Letter from Martha Nozawa to Henri Takahashi, letter from Martha Nozawa to Tomoye Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-86)

Asking Henri for his opinion of the survey they are conducting about Nisei in St. Louis, telling Tomoye about her plans and life on campus. Both letters in same envelope.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-86/

doc Application for Federal Employment for Tomoye Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-601)

Application for job as translator

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-601/

doc Letter from Tomoye Takahashi to Helen Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-81)

Describing conditions at the turkey farm.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-81/

doc Card to Tomoye and Henri Takahashi from Masako Nozawa (ddr-densho-410-48)

Encouraging them to stay out of camp if possible and asking about possibilities of outside employment

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-48/

doc Telegram from Ray Tanner to Hyobu Takei (ddr-densho-410-68)

With offer of job as cook

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-68/

doc Letter from Clarence Gillett to Tomoye and Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-192)

Asking how the work is on the farm, sorry he couldn't stop to see them

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-192/

doc Letter from Tomoye to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-134)

Gossip about various friends she sees in SLC and working on the ranch, including Ben who describes her sister Martha as very Hajukin, stories about his sister Helen having wild parties, planning to come back soon

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-134/

doc Card from Tomoye to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-248)

About life at the ranch where she is working, when she will return to Topaz

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-248/

doc Letter from Tomoye to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-237)

News from the ranch and mutual friends working there

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-237/

doc Letter from Florence Walne to Tomoye Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-65)

Letter rejecting Tomoye's application for teaching position at the Navy Language School, includes blank reference and personal information form and language qualifications

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-65/

doc Letter from Henri to Tomoye Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-139)

Unhappy that she plans to stay in Provo longer, annoyed that she asked him to send her sewing machine, got blood poisoning from an insect bite.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-139/

doc Alien Travel Permit (ddr-densho-410-400)

Issued to Henri Hiroyuki Takahashi for travel to New York for the purpose of finding work

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-400/

doc Termination notice for Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-595)

Leaving job as writer in camp for outside employment

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-595/

vh Tsuguo "Ike" Ikeda Interview I Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-123-16)

Participating in the agricultural work leave program: "Even though it's rough work, lousy living conditions, poor food, it was worth getting out of camp to be free"

As a teenager prior to World War II, began keeping scrapbooks with newspaper articles and memorabilia, a lifetime habit.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-123-16/

vh Tsuguo "Ike" Ikeda Interview I Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-123-15)

Enduring harsh living conditions and discrimination while working outside of camp topping sugar beets

As a teenager prior to World War II, began keeping scrapbooks with newspaper articles and memorabilia, a lifetime habit.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-123-15/

vh Jack Y. Kunitomi Interview II Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-376-6)

Leaving camp temporarily to work as contract laborers

This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-376-6/

vh Betty Morita Shibayama Interview Segment 26 (ddr-densho-1000-152-26)

A younger sister is born in camp; mother stayed to work in camp while father went out to work in Oregon

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-152-26/

vh Rick Sato Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-80-11)

Leaving camp to work in the sugar beet fields

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-80-11/