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CO: Well now, getting back to where... let's go now to after the trial, when you were flat broke, moved to Denver.

JO: I was flat broke, yes. So I moved into Denver and naturally went out looking for a job so I could replenish my depleted finances. But wherever I went, I was dogged by the Nisei. I would get the job -- except for the first one -- I did get the job. But by 4:30 or 5 o'clock I would get a telephone call telling me that, "We have three fellows or five fellows or any number of people working for us, and a few things are running pretty high against you. You'd better not show up at 8 in the morning." So I had a hard time finding a job. In fact, it took me three months.

CO: Did you continue in the newspaper business?

JO: No.

CO: What did you do?

JO: Well, I was pretty well-acquainted with the city so I was looking for a chauffeur's job. And after three months I finally did find a job driving a truck. And at that time, people were going back to California. And this one Nisei girl in the office told me, just hours before she was to be picked up, that the first Nisei girl that worked there that had quit the day after I was hired, had gone into the manager's office and told them all about me. Not affirmatively, negatively. But to the credit of the management, they never let on that they knew. They always treated me 100 percent.

CO: This was a Japanese?

JO: No, not a Japanese. Japanese worked there, but not Japanese boss.

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