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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 47 W. 69tn Street
DATE March 4, 1939
SUBJECT NOW NE KNOW YOU TOO
1. Date and ti of mterview April 3, 1939
2. Place of interview
Furriers Union
250 W. 26th Street
New York City
3. Name and address of informant Mrs. Sarah Cohen
152 Mr. 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, accompanyinL you
Sam Schwartz
6. Description of room, house, surrounC.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.)
STATE
FORM C
Text of Interview (Unedited)
New York
FOLKLORE
NEVI YORK
NAME OF '.IORnR Terry Roth Sean Schwartz
ADDRESS 47 W. 69th Street
DATE March 4, 1939
SUBJECT NOW ME KNOW YOU TOO
NOW ME KNOW YOU TOO
152 W. 111th Street
There is one worker by the name. Wolf. He's a type. He's
working all the time. In the shop he belongs to the boss more
than to the union. And if there is any help in the union when
they give out money relief, he's the first. The first to take
and the last to give. So when we had the drive for Spain in my
shop I have to pull him by the sleeve. He's the chairman so he
can't refuse me.
So it was last year I saw he came over to the union after
his day's work to take relief. I vent to one of the officers.
"Listen," I said, "I know that guy and he shouldn't take the
money. Don't give him and don't tell him anything what I said."
They came over and ask him for what he's coming. But he seen me
and he understood that Mrs. Cohen fixed him up. So he told the
boss that I'm a trouble maker in the shop, that I'm bringing stories
to the union. I didn't have anything to do with it. The boss came
over to me indirect. He spoke to the chairman by my machine.
"If I find out who it is he squeels, if I'll find the squeeler,
I'll give him."
Then I heard one of the fathers of the boss, he told me,
(my lontsmon, he knows me from a little child) "Listen, Sarah,
we know that the person who goes and squeels, it's you." You
know what I told him? "I don't blame you. You are the boss."
So I came over to the union and I made a complaint. The
grievance committee sent Wolf a letter to come to the trial. So
he came over and he sat down and he started to explain to two
comrades on the board. "See, I am giving to Spain, because 400
years ago they chased out the jaws. And since Mrs. Cohen is up-
stairs in the shop I have trouble." Well, he's a father from a
few children. I don't want to hurt him. So I got him. "Wolfe,
you gave money for Spain. You DID donate for Spain. Alright.
Go head." I wanted to scare him. She he was afraid to cane
over in the shop. Later I told him he don't have to send any-
thing to Spain. They were his own words. "Since Mrs. Chhen
is in the shop. So the committee said. "We know Mrs. Cohen
and now we know you too."