Title: "Many Japs Balk at Low Camp Pay," Seattle Times, 6/10/1943, (ddr-densho-56-929)
Densho ID: ddr-densho-56-929

MANY JAPS BALK AT LOW CAMP PAY

LOS ANGELES, June 10.--(AP)--The chief administrative officer of the Poston, Ariz., Japanese relocation center has told a Dies subcommittee that many of the evacuees won't do good work for the $19 a month the government pays them.

Others, said the officer, Augustus E. Empie, are doing satisfactory duty for which an outsider would receive $200 a month, but they are in the minority, and most are clerical workers trying to build an experience record to insure employment after the war.

"The attitude of many Japs in camp," Empie informed the committee headed by Representative Costello, Democrat, California, "is that there is no incentive, that the government placed them in camp against their will and that it is the duty of the government to furnish them food, shelter and clothing. We have tried to change that attitude."