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Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview FOLKLORE
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YORK
FORM A
Circumstances of Interview
STATE New York
NAME OF WORKSR Terry Roth Sam Schwartz
ADDRESS 47 W. 69th Street
DATE March 6, 1939
SUBJECT HEALTH CAMPAIGN
1. Date and tin —nterview April 4, 1939
2. Place of interview Furriers Union
250 Mi, 26th Street
New York City
3. Name and address of informant Mrs. Sarah Cohen
152 L 13th Street
4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you in
touch with informant. Miss Spiro, Educational Director
5. Name and address of person, if any, accompanying you
Sam Schwartz
6. Description of room, house, surround.ings, 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
NEVI YORK
NAME OF 'dORKER Terry Roth Sam Schwartz
ADDRESS
DATE
SUBJECT
47 W. 69th Street
March 6, 1939
Health Campaign
152 W. 13th Street
HEALTH CAMPAIGN
I am working now in a shop three years already. You know
how dirty it is in the shop, special in the fur shop. That's why
I open the windows here too. So I tried it should be clean in my
shop. I have to talk to the floor bosy. There was a floor boy
by the name Jimmy. Be never wanted to listen to me when I tolk
he should clean it. I WOULDN'T go to the boss. I try talking to
the chairman himself. It didn't help. That Jimmy, he used to
sweep so, special by my machine, the pieces dirt are creeping in
my lungs. So what I do? I made up a very big lie once. I told
him. "The union will send out today a Health Committee." So it
didn't help. "Not only the union, I mean the union of the bosses."
"Oh," he says, "the union of the bosses, they know only to fight.
"So the board of Health." But he says it has nothing to do with
the union; only with the hospitals. So I told him. "You know?
I didn't tell you the main thing. The Insurance Cama,
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heard Insurance Company, he ran with the b*oom, and 1 o'clock,
I come up, I didn't recognize the shop. The shop became clean
as a Jewish house before Passover.