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W 3630
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WPA L. C. PRO.IECT Wr ite.re. UNIT
Form -4
ItilkifIrl.Colleetion (or Type)
ntie...Feckinagvee worker., job
Place of origin 01404E9a Illinois Datc6/11V34
Projel worker. Betty }Awls@
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Remarks
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Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview
CHICAGO
FORMA
Circumstances of Interview
STATE
NAME OF WORKER Betty Burke
AMMRESS 1339 S. Troy St.
DATE June 19, 1939
SUBJECT Packinghouse worker's job
1. Date and time of interview June 19, 4130 pm.
2. Place of interview 4966 S. Marshfield
3. Name and address of informant Margaret Hawley
4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you in touch
with informant
None
5. Name and address of person, if any, accompanying you
None
6. Description of room, house, surroundings, etc.
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FORM B
CHICAGO
Personal History of Informant
STATE
NAME OF WORKER Betty Burks
AMWRESS 1339 S. Troy St.
DKTE June 19, 1939
SUBJECT Packinghouse worker's job
NAME OF INFORMANT Margaret Hawley
1. Ancestry
2. Place and Mite of birth
3. Family
Mother, Hungarian
Father, Irish
Margaret, American born
Chioago, 25 yrs. old
Seven in family
4. Places lived in, with dates Only Chicago
5. Education, with dates 2 yearsi of high school
6. Occupations and acoomplishments, with dates
Knows stenography, never had a job at it, though.
7. Special skills and interests Belongs to YWCA in the yards area. Likes Libor
dramatics and social good times.
6. Community and religious activities
Attends Irish Catholic church, because of her
father and mother, mainly
9. Description of informant
Big and tall, 5 feet 10, Extremely white skinned,
red hair out short, clean blue eyes, well propor-
tioned. Not talkative.
10. Other Points gained in interview
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FORM C
CHICAGO
Text of Interview (Unedited)
STATE
NAME OF WORKER Betty Burke
MUSS 1339 S. Troy St.
DATE June 19, 1939
SUBJECT Packinghouse worker
NAME OF INFORMANT Mhrgaret Hawley
I work in Armour's sausage department. They make all different kinds of
sausages. Making eaprioola, that's a hot Italian sausage, lots of spices and
garlic in it, well, it has to be skivered. That lets the excess .water out of
it so that it won't spoil. Well, I do the skivering. I get all wet and greasy
and sloppy. Everybody does, working on sausage.
They have sausage that they treat specially so it will have a green, fussy
mold all over it. I don't know how anybody could want to eat it but it's made
specially for Italian stores, so I guess people order it.
One thing, we're supposed to have trucks that we load the capricola in when
it's ready for a different part of the floor, but they never have enough trucks,
and we'll have our work tables stacked a mile high with finished work without
being able to get rid of it. Then they come around and yell at us because we
can't put the work out. It's us girls who lose time and pay, and they aot like
it's our fault that the company doitt furnish the department with enough trucks
to keep the place going.
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FORM D
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Extra Comment
STATE
NAME OF WORKER Betty Burke
ADORESS 1339 S. Tray St.
DATE June 19, 1939
SUBJECT Packinghouse worker
NAME OF INFORMANT Margaret Hawley
they ..have the old women hauling on the trucks. The young oneewouldn't do
that heavy work, most of them aren't even strong enough to do it if they wanted
to, and they stare don't want to.
I worked in there where they put up pressed ham in cans. I packed pressed
ham that was full of worms. They knew. But I once said something about it
to the boss and just got bawled out for not 'minding my own job better' and
talking too much. So I shut up. I was glad when they transferred me to
sausages again, thought That wormy stuff made me sick through. Sure, it's
dirties and wet there where I work now, but there's norms in the sausage meat.
Of if there is, at least I don't have to see them, and then pretend I don't.