Job Occupation 1940 United States Census

[littlefacey]

Can anyone help me? Cant work out what the job occupations i have marked say??

I think the top one say Packer... Tomato ?? and the bottom one has something to do with Odd Jobs?


Thanks in advance xx

[Pennines]

I agree 'packer' -- could it be 'Tomato manufacture' or similar?
The other one says 'common labor' I think -- (meaning doing odd jobs)

[Erin2012]

Have you checked the other census pages? I was thinking that if they worked in an industry, factory etc... There must be other people working in the same.

Common labor, yes odd jobs.

[rusted]

Running to truck mfgrs  (manufacturers?) (a delivery driver?)
machinist auto part mfgrs
packer truck mfgrs
labor common odd jobs

In the top line its pretty clearly truck not tomato, and the two words are the same in the third line.
The mfgrs is odd I think its possibly someone just getting the spelling of their abbreviation wrong.
So it seems the jobs are associated with a factory making parts for trucks and cars.

Thats my take, I could be way out.
 

[sbny357]

Definitely "Truck Mfg_", but "packer" doesn't really seem to fit as a job in a truck plant.  Perhaps "Parker" or some other job specific to the industry.

[Erin2012]

Ok.... Going out on a limb here. I think it could still be packer...  Could someone pack parts in boxes at a truck manufacture, to ship them somewhere for example?