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STATE
NiLE OF WORKER
ADDRESS
DATE
SURJECT
Fo as to be Filled out for Each Interview
FORE. A
Circumstances of Interview
Now York
Terry Roth
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47 W. 69th Street, N.Y.C.
Waroh 22, 1939
By Rim Was A Regular Department tore
March 15th Noon
1. Rate and tim_o nterview
2. Place of interview
mr. Gold
3. Name and address of informant
FOLKLORE 11)
NL;W YORK
Sam Schwartz
152 W. 13th Street, N.Y.C.
Louis Wiesen Son, Dresses
463 Seventh Avenue
New York City
4. Name and address of person,_if anv. who put you in
bam Sdhwartz
touch with informant.
5. Name and address of person,sgt misaiiezom-anvin'• you
6. Description of room, house, surroundin-s, etc.
(Use as many additional sheets as necessary, for any of the forms, each
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Text of Interview (Unedited)
New York
WORKER. Terry Roth
47 N. 69th Street, N.Y.C.
March 22, 1939
By Him Was A Regular Department Store
FOLKLORE
NE,!: YORK
Sam Schwartz
153 W. 13th Street, N.Y.C.
BY Bums A REGULAR DEPARTMENT STORE
"I remind myself of a shop on East Broadway. Was a lontwmon,
used to work over there. A cloakmakeri At that time I was living
on Henry Street. Naturallj there viva:: a President of the shul.
And the boss from his shop, he was also the President. He pract-
ical,y didn't pay the people anything for their work. The cheap-
est labor he used to have.
After they are working a long time, they used to come over
for a raise. Everyone HAS to belong to a shul. So THEY
longing also to his shul. So they say to him.
"How is it about a raise?"
"Oh," he says, "times is bad.
are be
How can I raise you? Pin
losing money. If you wart the truth, I should lay you all off.
But, after all, aren't you my lontsmont If we don't look out
for our awn, who else? tell you what. Next Saturday, come
to the shul and give you an "aleah."*
eAleth• The honor of being sum oned to ascend
the rostrum in the shul as the torah
is read.
A "Treat" to a Torah reading.
You think that's all he vas? I SHOULD KNOW. He was a
regular department store. Also he is an agent to sell tickets
on the boat to bring over the wives. Or, let us say, someone
was bringing over a family. So he was selling tickets for the
boat. He used to take over the "greenas."
The wakes at that tie, for a oloakmaker was fifteen dollars.
By him, you used to work for seven or five dollars. After this
lontamon is working for sometime, all the shops are starting to
unionize. The boss is having trouble in the shop and the work-
ers are not wanting an "aleah." After this don't help, he oalls
over Chiam.
"How long you're here? Why don't you bring over your wife?
By mt. it's NO LIFE if a family is in two pieces. You think it's
rights Chiam?"
"How can I" my friend says. "You think mayi,e I can save
from those wages?"
"Alright. So I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll give you a
ticket. And I'll take out of the wages."
So already he ad the oloakmaker tied again to work another
year. And after the oloakmaker got mad he used to say to the
"I have you in Hell with the tickets."
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Arikes used to be there at that time and by him also. iihen
he saw it's bad, he comes down to the shop. First he would get
a telegram, m?de b.' himself to him. WITH A STORY. That someone's
daughter is siick, or mayie the shul in the old country is burning.
Or something like that. Be called them all together and told then
what is happening.
"And I am jving for this Oypose 4100, unless have to
give lo% more wages."
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Well. THEY ZEE INVOLVED. After all, in the old country
is still their fathers, mothers, brothers. So they start to
work again. Always he had some craziness to keep them. But
when tho. are no longer "greens*" they used to say to him.
"We have you in Hell, with the shul, with the tickets, with
your beards with everything."
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