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Full title:A few of the 70 Japanese Americans employed by the Illinois Mushroom Company, Naperville, Illinois, are shown in the company's own dining room. Most of these men are employed on a seasonal contract through the War Food Administration in cutting and canning asparagus. These seasonal workers were all from Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas. Approximately 14 of the entire group of workers have regular jobs in the mushroom plant operated by the company in Naperville. Sleeping accommodations are provided by the company for some of the men in the same building with this dining room. Others sleep on an upper floor in the cannery nearby. The company's asparagus cutting and canning contract is almost entirely taken up by the Government for various war uses, and V. E. Peterson says that this group of seasonal workers have saved Naperville's large asparagus crop from rotting in the field. Naperville, Illinois.
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