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•• •• June 11,1982 (~ Postpaid) aCl lC Cl lZell News 20¢ The National Publication of the Japanese American Citizens League ISSN : {)()3(}.3579 Whole No. 2.192/ Vol. 94 No. 23 Stand: Interned JAs 'must be compensated': Goldberg Autoworker sells 'Buy American' HONOLULU - The United can, one of the most mons­ It was also noted some Ja­ creating the right type of s0- shirts to protest Japan cars States must compensate trous injustices ever commit­ panese were also evacuated ciety for everybody. That's ARLINGTON, Tx.-An autowork­ let's put American people back to Americans of Japanese an- ted in our society: what was from Hawaii. the best way. You have to cre- er at the General Motors assembly work.' The American people are cestry who were "imprisoned done to Japanese American ate a society in which the spi- plant here is on a crusade to "rally getting slaughtered with all these in concentration camps" dur- citizens and resident aliens When asked how the U.S. rit of freedom, Liberty and to- !he Amer~can ~ple back to buy­ Japanese imports. " ing World War II, according during World War II. could prevent future intern­ lerance lives. That's the way mg Ame~lcan, reported the Oal- Martin said he came up with the ' h d thin to d " las Morrung News May 2. T-shirt idea after an increasing to Arthur Goldberg, former "There can be no argwnent ments, Goldberg said, "By and tha t saar g o. J . ~ . Martin, 41, is selling T- nwnber of his friends were being associate Supreme Court jus- that a terrible wrong was shirts emblazoned with a U.S. laid off from the GM plant in Ar­ tice and member of the Com- done by a president that I re­ map, over which Japanese kami­ lington and after two GM plants in mission on Wartime Reloca- vere, Franklin Roosevelt. Former government attorney kaze pilots are dropping bombs la­ California closed for good. tion and Internment of Civi- First, the record shows it. Se­ beled with the names of the major "It just dawned on me one morn­ : ing that if somebody didn't do lians. He was addressing a cond, it has been admitted. urges reopening of Korematsu Japanese imports. The map is topped with the slogan "Remem­ something about Japanese car Honolulu JACL luncheon May President Ford said so, and WASHINGTON-An attorney who worked for U.S. Office of Emergency ber Pearl Harbor. Help save Ame­ sales in this country, all of us could 15 at Pagoda Restaurant. Congress has said so in creat- Management during World War II has urged the Commission on Wartime rica. Buy American. It be out of work," said Martin, who Goldberg was in Honolulu to ing the commission. In law­ Relocation and lntenunent of Civilians to ask Congress to reopen the To protest Japanese imports and has worked 24 years for GM. deliver the commencement yer's term, we acknowledge Supreme Court evacuation case ofKorematsu v. U.S. how they keep his fellow autowork­ " What other country in the addres:s the next day at the liability; the only question is Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., in a letter to CWRIC chair Joan Z. Bernstein May ers unemployed, Martin said, he world would let another country 21, expressed his' belief that Congress, rather than the courts, would have destroy their economy except Univ. of Hawaii graduation. damages. plans to use the T-shirt profits to to reverse the Korematsu decision. buy a Japanese-made car and America? ' "In law, if you have sus- . "Our commission has a pro­ .• I now believe that the combination of both Congress and the courts can smash it to pieces with a sledge­ Martin said be does Dot want his tained an injury, then you are blem, though. What do you do, best deal with this subject (of redress)," wrote Rauh. "To this end, I urge harruner. pro-U.S. crusade to be misunder­ entitled to be compensated for ' 40 years past, with the re­ this Commission, following the practice of Indian claims, to try and "If this T-shirt idea goes over, stood. ~ injury that has.~n sus-,' maining 60,000 of the 120,000 persuade Congress to waive the defe!lSeS of sovereign immunity and the I'm going to buy me a Toyota, set it "I'm not bad-mouthing the Ja­ statute of limitations and thus permit suits for damages resulting from tained. Our COlIUlllSSlon has Japanese Americans who up at a shopping mall, tum on its panese people or their cars," he evacuation and internment." radio and smash it to smithe­ said. "It's not a racial matter at to fmd a way to establish some were put in these concentra­ He added, "It will then be ~n to the courts to decide the correctness of feellS--()r until the radio goes off, .. all. We just have got to get some monetary redress for this lion camps? Korematsu and the right of the internees to redress. lfthe Supreme Court, Martin said, as he modeled one of sort of trade balance going with the wrong. That's what we will "It will be a difficult thing. freed from wartime pressures, overrules Korematsu, as I hope and trust the shirts in front of United Auto Japanese because they are killing wrestle with later this How do you really make a per­ it will, the courts can assess damages on a group or individual basis for Workers Local 276 in Grand our economy." month," said Goldberg. son whole, or a people whole, the deprivations imposed." Prairie. Martin said the T-shirts come in Raub said that after the attack on Pearl Harbor, both he and attorney three colors-Hall-American red, "My lifetime has been de- for the physical injury, the fi­ "By doing this I'm trying to say, Oscar Cox of the OEM met with presidential advisor Benjamin V. Cohen 'Hey, America, buy American and white and blue." II voted to justice-equal justice nancial injury and, what is to discuss ways to alleviating the anti-Japanese hysteria on the West under law-and we (in the worst of all, the stigma of be­ Coast. Conunission) are united in a ing an American and branded "An immediate, temporary nighttime curfew seemed to all three of us Chol Soo Lee's bail set at $1 million single cause to remedy, if we as disloyal?" he said. COntinued OD Page 10 SAN FRANCISCO-Bail has been set at $1 million for Chol Soo Lee, the 28-year-old Korean immigrant facing a retrial for a 1973 Chinatown murder. Superior Court Judge Robert Dossee Profile & Platform of Candidates for National JACL Office set the figure May 17, at the request of assistant attorney Wil­ liam Smith, who said that Lee is a substantial bail risk because he is an immigrant and may likely flee the country. Frank Sato lone nominee for Secretarymeasurer During the same hearing, Smith also asked for a continuance In the forthcoming weeks, the ten nominated for national ginia Community College acrounting advisory committee, and in the retrial, moving it from May 24 to Aug. 2. Lee had opposed JACL offices will be introduced. Each candidate's platform will Nat'l Assn. of Asian American CPAs. While attending UW, he the continuance, but if he had gone to trial May 24, the prose­ be reprinted. The series opens this week with Frank Sato of was president of Synkoa, the University student club. cution would have been allowed to read into the record the Washington, D.C., the lone nominee for secretary-treasurer, A JACL member since '48, and currently on the Washington, testimony of witness John Huey, without allowing Lee s counsel and will culminate with profiles and statements by the three D.C. chapter board of directors, Sato serves on the Abe & Es­ a chance to cross exam. nominated for national president.-Editor. ther Hagiwara scholarship selection committee, the Washing­ Lee agreed to a limited waiver of speedy trial to within 10 • ton JACL Office advisory committee since 1!179 and served on days after Aug. 2. Aware that hard choices EOC's Japanese American Resource Registrar Committee. Lee had been convicted in 1973 for a street-corner killing of a would have to be made for Born in Puyallup, Wa., March 16,1929, he IS married to June reputed gang leader Yip Yee Tak, in Chinatown here and in (nee Matsusawa). They have four children: Teresa, 28; John, Sacramento Lee was sentenced to life imprisonment for the sake of the JACL's growth, Ho~ever, Frank Saburo Sato, who will 26 (an accountant with Sho {ino at Los Angeles) ; Gregory, 24; murder. a committee was formed by Asian Ameri­ ~o­ be 53 years old by Convention Glenn, 23; son Dean died in 1980. The Satos live in Annandale, can community members who maintained that he was time, said he is prepared to Va. He is amember of the Method~is~t~C::.:h=ur:..::c::..:h::... _"",,,"---yo--,~""'" cent, and through their efforts, Lee was able to obtam a COnGDued 00 Page 6 make them if elected national retrial. # JACL secretary-treasurer. As stated in his platform" Asian families in Torrance say JACL's ability to deliver must' u.s. denies visas to Japan no-nukers be assessed and made by set­ NEW YORK- The State Department denied isas to about 300 teenagers are harassing them ting priorities within the con­ Japanese citizens who had been planning to attend the U.N. text of long-range and short­ Special Session on Disarmament on June 7 and a rally ill up­ term goals.

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