DISLOYAL JAPS RESISTING WORK

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28.--(AP)--An "organized resistance" among "definitely disloyal Japanese" was blamed today for a refusal to harvest crops at the Tule Lake Segregation Center in Northern California.

Robert B. Cozzens, assistant director of the War Relocation Authority in charge of the West Coast area, said harvest work stopped two weeks ago when several thousand Japanese "known to be disloyal" were transferred to Tule Lake from some of the other nine relocation centers, and Japanese believed loyal to the United States were moved out.

Cozzens said, however, that the harvest definitely would be resumed soon, but gave no indication who would do the work. Alfalfa, grain and vegetables on about 1,000 acres remain to be harvested. A large share of the Tule Lake crop is scheduled to go to other Japanese centers.

At Tule Lake yesterday, R.R. Best, project director, said he was advised by a committee of eight, professing to represent the center's entire population now approximating 14,000, that a unanimous decision not to participate in harvest work had been reached.

An estimated 6,500 of Tule Lake's 13,000 residents were removed recently after the center was designated as the site for disloyalists. About 7,500 disloyalists or suspected disloyalists have been moved in from other centers. Total population is expected to reach 18,000.

Cozzens indicated the refusal to work was no surprise--"we knew the residents now there were disloyal, and have made all preparations accordingly."