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Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview FOLKLORE
NEW YORK
FORM A
Circumstances of Interview
STATE New York
NAME OF WORKER Terry Roth Sam Schwartz
ADDRESS
DATE
SUBJECT
47 West 69th btreet
April 18, 1939
A DANGEROUS MISSION
1. Date and tint of -nterview
2. Place of interview
3. Name and address of informant
4. Name and address of person if any, who put you in
touch with informant.
2800 Bronx Park East
April 13-17, 1,$9
Furriers Union
5. Name and address of person, if any, accompanying you
Sam Schwartz
6. Description of room, house, surroundings, etc.
(Use as many additional sheets as necessary, for any of the forms, each
bearing the proper heading and the number to which the material refers.)
FORM C
Text of Interview (Unedited)
STATE New York
FOLKLORE
NEW YORK
NAME or ,i0RKER Terry Roth Sam Schwartz
ADDRESS 47 ,;est 69th Street
DATE April 18, 1939
SU15JECT A DANGEROUS MISSION
2800 Bronx Park East
You see, I was a member of the organizational committee.
During the strike. So we used to get in all kinds of complaints.
Some of them didn't mean anything. but we had to co investigate
about the scabs. One complaint we got in, there's a couple of
scabs having machines in the house and they are doing scab work
in that house. So we went, two of us to investigate. We came up
to the building and looke6 around. It was the right number, a
little dingy building with narrow wooden stairs. We listened to
all the doors. We walked up another flight of stairs, and we
were scared. We actually heard machines going so fast. We thought,
'here we got the scab and the machines and we'll do something good.'
We didn't want them to know we are from the union. So we made 1;1)
to knock on the door and to ask them whether they have a room to
let. We have to have some sort of a name and this is a Greek niegh
borhood, so -we decided to think of some Italian name. A big, fat
Italian woman opens the door and we hear K2 a bunch of machines going
in the back. It sounded like a factory. We were shivering. It's
very dangerous. We wouldn't get out alive from that. I ask the
lady. "You got a room to let?"
"Yes." It happens she just had. "Who recommended you?"
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"A fellow U, the name Jose."
So she turns around and callas to someone in the back there.
"Hey, Jose, some of your friends is here."
And he comes out. "Oh, comrades, I know you. You are from
the union."
It was a regular shop. They were making flags for the first
of May.