Labor representative, member of the “Lost Battalion.” His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; imprisonment in Surabaja, 1942; hell ship to Japan, 1942; Tokyo docks; Nagasaki; Fukuoka Prison Camp No. 9, Kyushu, 1945; liberation.

His experiences while employed by the National Youth Administration during the Great Depression.