Letter from Oregon Governor Sprague and rebuttal from Ichiro Hasegawa, Richard Higawa, and Ken Sekiguchi from Tule Lake
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ddr-densho-423-156
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Letter sent to President Roosevelt and reprinted in the Oregon Journal, arguing that Japanese incarcerees should be forced to work on the sugar beet harvest or be deported to Japan. The detailed rebuttal from Hasegawa, Higawa and Sekiguchi gives exact numbers of available labor, problems with work conditions on the farms, hypocrisy of demanding the removal of Japanese and then demanding their return as laborers.
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October 16, 1942
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Correspondence
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Document
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- Hasegawa, Ichiro (author)
- Higawa, Richard (author)
- Sekiguchi, Kenichiro Ken (author)
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Densho
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Courtesy of the Takahashi Family, Densho
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
