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Date received
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Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview
CBICAGO FOLKSTUFF
FORM A
Circumstances of Intervis4\
STATE Illinois
NAME OF WORKER Betty Burks
ADDRESS 1539 South Troy Street
DATE April 5, 1939
SUBJECT Work Experience
1. Date and time of interview 1pril 5, 1939
2. Place of interview 51st Street Ashland TWOL
3. Name and address of informant Miry &umiak* 5006 84. Winchester
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.
TIMIL stockyards center clubrooms, 2nd floor of bank building.
(Use as many additional sheets as necessary, for any of the forms, each
bearing the proper heading and the number te which the material refers.)
CHICAGO
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FOLKLORE
FORM B
Personal History of Informant
CHICLGO FOLKSzurr
STATE Illinois
ONAME OF WORKER Betty Burke
ADDRESS 1339 South Troy Street
DATE April 5, 1939
SUBJECT
NAME OF INFORMANT Mary Iruppiak
1. Ancestry Russian -Slovak parentage
CHICAGO
2. Place and date of birth Chicago, Illinois, stookyards area, al years old
3. Family Seven members
4. Places lived in, with dates
5. Education, with dates- Grammar sohool„ *yens high- commercial course
6. Occupations and accomplishments, with dates housework, factory work
mad hotel work
7. Special skills and interests..
Likes anything new, she says.
8. Community and religious activities
Belongs to YWCA, Greek Catholic, Very religious
9. Description of informant
OD
Small, blue eyed, dollfaoed, vivacious, friendly,
seemingly open minded.
le. Other Points gained in interview
FOLKLORE
FORM C
Text of Interview (Unedited)
maw° FOLKS TUFF
CHICAGO
STATE Illinois
NAME OF WORKER Betty Burke
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ADDRESS 1339 South Troy Street
DATE April 5, 1939
SUBJECT Worker's Experience
NAME OF INFORMANT Mary Kruppimk (works at Armour kOampany in string depifrtment,
counting gut strings)
There's nothing to it all you have to do is spread out those gut
strings and count them you might call it a wet job the tables
and floors are always wet.
We get 5Z an hour about $20 it's really 01.80 but by the
time they take off for the Social Security it amounts to $20 8 hours,
forty hours. We're expecting a layoff but I hope it don't get here
foreman lets us talk if we keep busy, but it's not easy to talk and
doncentrate on counting, you know. Ws our custom to sit around aT
big steam pipe talking and waiting for the starting whistle and one
time four of us were talking and all of a sudden the steam pipe burst.
I didn't get it but the three others got about a pail full of cold
water over them. In about two seconds the steam started shooting out
but they just barely got away before it hit them. They would have
been scalded plenty. They looked like cats dragged through the gutter
all day. You see they couldn(t change clothes because we were busy
then and they worked in west clothes all day. No, the foreman wouldn't
let them go home.
FOLKLORE
FORM D
Extra Comment
CHICAGO FOLKSTUFF
STATE Illinois
NAME OF WORKER Betty Burke
ADDRESS 1339 South Troy Street
DATE April 5, 1939
SUBJECT Worker's Experiences
NAME OF INFORMANT Mary Kruppiak
CHICAGO
114,1d get the biggest kick out of this:
Down at our place there's five Stolla's four Mary's and
three John's at our table It's really a picnic when the fore
lady starts calling for Stella or Mary or John. We have no relief
period because the dressing room is about five minutes walk from
our tables. I've worked there off and on just five months in the
last three years you see they have so many lay offs all the
time.