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Omaha Steve

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Thu Oct 15, 2015, 04:37 PM Oct 2015

October 15, 1943


http://nhlabornews.com/2015/10/october-15-1943/




At the Tule Lake Segregation Center internment camp – which held over 18,000 Japanese Americans during World War II – a truck carrying agricultural workers tips over, resulting in the death of an internee. Ten days later, the agricultural workers went on strike; the internment camp director fired all of the workers and brought in strikebreakers from other internment camps. After several outbreaks of violence, martial law was declared and 250 internees were arrested and incarcerated in a newly constructed prison within the prison.

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