Deadly Revenge

Well we had to make the moulds for different parts of the motors and what not on the ships and then we had to smelt them and take them on to the finishing shop and then another crew started and done the same thing and we just went round and round like that. And I do remember that if you, like when we were cleaning the casts like after it was cooled you had to clean it, if when you were cleaning that cast if you happened to break something, because you were using hammers and chisels and what not, if you happened to break something and you reported it right away they just laughed about it. But if you didn’t report it, then you got a hell of a beating. We’d bust castings, especially when we were cleaning say, one of them big motors, we’d clean the casting on parts of the big motors we would bust them on purpose. You see, actually when we were working in the shipyards, the guards were not with us. It was the Japanese people themselves that worked there that was with us. They were over us while we worked there and some of them were very good. It was the guards that were the dirty ones. The guards were really . . . I don’t know. I know of one guard in the finishing shop, they had a big overhead, what the heck would you call it. It was a long shaft went overhead with a bunch of pullies on it to run everything, all the equipment in there. And the motor that was running it had steel belting on it going up and I know that there was one Japanese guard, he was a big fellow and he was mean, he was really mean. Not only with us but with the Japanese and one of the Japanese that was working there he beat him continually, this guard did, and that Japanese guy there he got a couple of our guys to help him when there was no body around watching. Pushed him and held that big Jap up against that until that steel lacing caught him and they picked him up with chop sticks. He was killed. Cause some of the Japanese people were not all bad, there were some pretty good ones. We had some pretty good bosses that we worked under.