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Show OHI interview with Tadao Ushio 7/28/84 ~: my group. My Daddy work over there, too, you know. LK What was your father doing? 3 'IU Same thing. He was there so cane over there and started the sane kind of._ a job. LK. Do you rememl::er how much you were paid? 'IU I don' t rememl::er. Not much. I don' t know, two or three dollars. I don' t know. It was hourly work. LK. Did you have to do much walking back and forth on the track? 'IU No, not much. Average arout for or five miles each in the section. From here four miles, average. Slmmer tline four, five, six men ••• cut in winter tline to two or three men. Sa.rre here to another section. One fonnan, always one forerr.an there. LK What was the avergae day like in that gang? What would they do? 'IU Well, mostly sane thing. Sanetline pick and shovel all day. Go to work 8 o' cloc:X in the morning and finish 5 P.M. lK Where would you start the work? 'IU We have two houses. That's where everybody rreet. It's right there just 400 or 500 feet. We meet at the headquarter Monday morning. Foreman say what you are going to do today. He tell you and he goes with us so sane day; maybe change afternoon. It's kind of hard srneday half day work, then work sane other kind of work. lK Was the foreman Japanese or hakujin? 'ItJ Japanese, yeah. I..K Do the forman work? 'IU Well, he how is it now over here. Does foreman work? It's the sane way. How's the American foreman? Same way, right? Scme foreman help sanetllnes; sane of t.hen don't tell you what he's doing. You know. Scme foreman help a little bit sane of than tell you what you want to do. Even when I was a foreman, I'll tell you when I get 'en, foreman job, later on, I, not now. |
