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DG: Okay, Richard, we're talking about your business, your oyster business, at the Eagle Oyster Company. Now, they've posted a notice on your building that you have to leave.

RM: Uh-huh.

DG: Okay, and you had some Japanese workers.

RM: Uh-huh.

DG: And now was -- did business go along as usual? I mean, were you the same output and everything?

RM: Oh, yeah. I don't know think it affected anything. Maybe -- let's see, now when was that notice? Maybe the plant was closed. See, it's seasonal, you know.

DG: Oh, okay.

RM: And it could have been closed at that time when they posted, if it was May.

DG: Well, it was earlier than that that they posted that.

RM: Oh.

DG: It was at least by March.

RM: March. I don't remember.

DG: Did it upset you? Did you get mad?

RM: Well, didn't make me feel good. No, I didn't get mad or anything.

DG: What about protesting.

RM: Huh? I mean, they, the people that were doing that, they got orders to do it, I guess, and they were kind of apologizing.

DG: Oh.

RM: They didn't think it was right either, but it's one of those things...

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