War Relocation Authority administration buildings lined this road, including a main complex of four barracks-style buildings connected by a central passage where Camp Project Director Harry L. Stafford had his office. War Relocation Authority civilian workers supervised the work and daily lives of the nearly 10,000 internees confined here. The administration tried to create a semblance of self-government by appointing block managers and block delegates as camp representatives, but only Nisei, American-born Japanese, could hold those positions, while Issei, first-generation immigrants, were denied them, undermining their traditional roles as community leaders and patriarchs. Internees worked within the administrative area and throughout the camp, but for many the monthly wages of $12 for unskilled workers, $16 for skilled workers, and $19 for professionals were too low to cover mortgages and other obligations. Harry L. Stafford wrote that the ill fortunes of war struck deeply at Japanese-Americans and their elders, who were stripped of worldly goods and treasures and rushed into incarceration to endure shattered composure.