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Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview FOLKLORE
NE
YORK
FORM A
Circumstances of Interview
STATE New York
NAME OF WORKER Terry Roth
ADDRESS 47 IN 69th Street
DATE March 4, 1939
SUBJECT I SEE THEY ARE LUNGS
1. Date and tinc. of .mterview April 3, 1939
2. Place of interview
Furriers Union
250 MN 26th Street
New York City
3. Name and address of informant Ws. Sarah Cohen
Sam Schwartz
162 W. 13th Street
4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you in
touch with informant. Miss Sprio, Educational Director
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.)
STATE
NAME OF ',K)REIR
ADDRESS
DATE
SUBJECT
FORM C
Text of Interview (Unedited)
New York
Terry Both
47 W. 69th Street
March 4, 1939
I SEE THEY ARE LUNGS
I SEE THEY ARE LUNGS
FOLKLORE
NEW YORK
Sam Schwartz
152 W. 13th Street
I study your body. I know it through and through. I'm a
nurse. Thirty years I work in a Tuberculosis Dept. in Odesa. In
a furrier's shop I can't help it. I study your body. When I came
here I can't stand that they shut me the window. I had to put up
a great fight in order I should win this campaign. Look over there.
That room with boxes. Now you trill understand me more. I have been
a maniac about opening the windows. To open the windows all over a
little bit, according the weather. Now, look over there. There
wasn't a window in that room before.
Now I think in the twentieth century, when the unions are
lest or more intelligent people, they understand the need of the
furrier's in the health respect. So, who should bring it up. Who
should do something in this respect? I went over to the Health
committee and I said. "Listen, Mr. B., we thought the member would
be remembered. That is an outside wall. There must be a window in
that roam."
"But the union can't afford it."
I looked in that room where you see the boxes now. It was
the local of the mechanics and all day long young, strong, healthy
boys full of energy, are full of smoke. When I pass b;i. I can't
help it. I don't see they are boys. I see they are lungs. I
see that other room is an outside wall.
I told the Health officer. "The union spends very much
money for the T.B. workers. This union has about 20 odd cases of
workers T.B. The best thing to do, it will cost a little bit
money, is to break through a window in that wall."
I came back in two weeks and they are breaking through the
window. What is the result? Actiont Let him take the credit
as long as there is a window. Finished. I don't know. But
the window's there. And the lungs will be better. At least a
little bit.
When I used to tell my children to OOMB home, they say.
"Where mama, in the house or to the union?" That's all I tell you.
You'll came here, you'll see me. Association is like this. it's
like a machine. The machine turns, it reminds you. Maybe I'll
remind myself on something else.