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Date J.13
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"Once I had an argument :dth the leadershi:, here which
was very soory on that. I though 2 ahy should I have to suffer
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I'll do the same thing the others are doing. I'll go
to the right union.' I went up thee and one fellow cones over
to me and said, 'hello' to me. I tock a sock at him and I walked
right out. I had a few fellows there they kn. ne, so they pro-
tected me. And I cane Lack to the left union."
I had a good experience with my boss. Working with him,
this guy used to be afraid of re an awful lot. So when he wanted
to do something dirty, he'll come over and t me on the back.
"You're a nice fellow." So I used to do the same thing to him.
So he asks me. "Why do you do that to me?" "I'm doing this be-
cause you are doing it. You are looking for a place to stab me
and I'm looking for the same place."
"Yes," he says, "we both have the same feeling for each
other."
"I worked for a boss which he claims he's very racical.
Always for the workers. Always radical. In the time of the strike$
when was the differences between rights and lefts, he used to say.
"I'm for the union conditions." But when it came the united front
and we came to the same boss and asked him to sup;.ort us we said
to him. "You're supposed to be a radical man. Now that we have
one union, you'll work:with us." To this he answered us. "I'm
willing to cooperate, but first let someone else start."
NO used to be also a worker.
"I got myself a job about a month ago. I krewthe owner
of the place very well. I ask him for a job and he wouldn't re—
fuse me a job for two ,1ays a wykk. Thursday and Friday. I used
to call it W.P.A. a job Thursday and Friday. Then, after I worked
a couple days, he came over to me. "Listen, I want you tc de me
a favor. See that the union stays away from my shop. That the
committee don't come 11D.n He wants to have the Shipping Clerk
doing mechanical work. Instead of saying something to him, I
took my hat and coat and walked out. I come right back to the
office with a complaint to theorganizer."
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During the General Strike we had a telephone call here.
There's a Shoe shop on strike on 26th Street and we had a call,
gangsters are there. We don't like gangsters should be in the
fur market. So we went out to chase them from the market and
we had a fight with them. A policeman gets ahead of me and he
wants to hit me with a club. Well. I was faster than him and
I hit hih first, and he had ne locked up on #600 bail. Aa come
into the station house, they ask my name. He says to me. How
do you spell it? I didn't want to give him the satisfaction
so I told him, "I don't know how to spell my name, I know only
how to sign my name." I was going to put up a fight mith
I told him, "After all, you're sehosed to protect me." Jo I
did net spell my name. I came over in front of the Desk Lieu-
tenant, he wikA ne to spell it. "I don't know how to spell
my name." I was brought up to court and they locked sweep there.
I had a bad CUJO that time and I trieh to straighten out with
the judge in a nice ee%. I told him. "I made a nistake. I
didn't mean to do it, Lut instead, the cops wan';s to lock me up."
The policeman was so nervous he couldn't speak. The judge asked
him whether he feels sick. He said, "Yes." So he postponed the
case, he had an understanding with my lawyer to change the chergs.
Then, on the witness stand, he started to testify against me that
I hit him. So the judge told h-.. "What did you do about it?"
"I couldn't do anything." he had witnesses. The two gangsters
from the shoe store which we had them locked up too. And the
judge wouldn't accept that as good witnesses because they had
records, and the case was thrown out. After, the cop went over
to my lawyer and 4u asked hih I dshouldn't bother him on the
market if I see him."
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