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Forms to be Filled out for Each interview- FOLKLORE
NI_]W YORK
FORM A
Circumstances of Interview
STATE New York
NAIv OF WORKER Terry Roth
ADDREE;S 47 W. 69th Street
DATE March 6, 1939
SUDJECT THE ARISTICRATCA
1. Date and ti: _ _,nterview April 4, 1939
2. Place of interview
Furriers Union
250 West 26th Street
New York City
3. Name and address of informant Mrs. Sarah Cohen
Sam Schwartz
152 W. 13th Street
4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you in
touch with informant. Miss Spiro, Educational Director
6. Name and address of person, if any, accompanyini 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
NEVI YORK
N./in OF '.'1ORKER Terry Roth Sam Schwartz
ADDRESS 47 W. 69th Street
DATE March 6, 1939
SUBJECT TEE ARISTICRATCA
THE ARISTICRATCA
152 W. 13th Street
This is about a lovestonite, a Mrs. Rabinowitz, a very
active worker. We used to give her a name "the aristioratca."
She wanted to take me over there. They made up their mind that
I belong there. But they made a mistake. When you come over
to a new shop you may be a very experienced worker, but every
shop is a new system. When I came over there I had the same
work but a different system. This "aristicratca is marking
in this shop and lunchtime we went to the bathroom to clean
ourselves, she came over. "See, Mrs. Cohen, see? Now the
united front. Don't you remember we told that we don't want
any polities in the union. You remember?:
"Sure I remember. If you don' w4nt politics in the union
so you want in the toilet? Where do you want to talk politics
in the butcher? Shul? Toilet? I know I'm a worker. I should
talk in the union about Gefilte Fish? About Nigel? The union
should be something tolearn they should talk."
"Oh, but Mrs. Cohen you are not right."
"Not much." I keep quiet like "all dus Baze" (devilish spirit)
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Comes pay day, the boss made a little mistake in my
money, so I saw the leader in the shop about it. I told him.
"Listen, Baritz, I want you should tell Mrs. Rabinowitz not
to bother on me about your group, and so and so." So he daid.
"I don't know if I'll see her. "Weil, I said, "you might see
her tomorrow, next week. I want you should tell her. Please,
Baritz, don't think that I belong to your group. Please don't
make any mistake."
A couple days later I see that Mrs. Rabinowitz come over
to the union. "Good, Mrs. Cohen, you are here. I can to see
somebody but you are here, I'll talk to you."
We went over and sat down on the chair.
"I'm so surprised you are feeling that way.
And so and
so. And so and so. And so and so. I am quiet.
"And you should help out with your brains with this group."
And so and so. And so and so.
First of hll I have an opinion, just the same opinion of
Bernard Show, who said. "As many people talk English, that many
dialects are." How many accents has a dialect. So many as many
people are talking. So many dialects are. The same I told her.
nI have my opinion."
"No, Mrs. Cohen, we told you and we told everybody here."
"Alright," I said, "If you think you told us
"Mrs. Cohen. The same thing that you are having in the united
front, we told them a couple years ago."
"Well, that's very good. That time the fruit was green and
now, maybe, the fruit is ripe."
By the way, when she started so, she came out with all kinds
praises. "And you are so and so, and you are the most of the most."
But I told her then you took that fruit a couple years ago so the
fruit wasn't ripe."