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Forms to be Filled out for Each Interviuw
STATE
NAME OF WORKER
ADDRESS
DATE
SUBJECT
FORM A
Circumstances of Interview
Now York
Herman Spsotor
May 17, 1939
FOLKLORE
NEW YORK
Hospital Naterial From bitters of Hospital Viorkers to Union
1. Date and time of interview
2. Place of inteWelF, 132
3. Name and addraityoHoiptclusiantLosal 128 SCO0A, GIO
4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you in
touch with informant.
Name and aut3ress of perro:i, if any, you
C. Description of room, house, surrouncincs, etc.
(Use as many additional sheets as necessary, for any o-1 the forms,
each ber.rinc the proper hcadini end the nuilber the mit,prial
refers.)
STATE
NAME OF WORKER
ADDRESS
DATE
SUBJECT
FORM C
Text of Interview (Unedited)
New York
Herman Spector
May 17, 1939
Hospital Material
FOLKLORE
NEW YORK
FROM LETTERS OF HOSPITAL WORKERS TO UNION
Dear Sir I wish to make a complaint to you about the conditions of the
Riverside Hospital the this are awful here, their one Woman
here that makes things here mean for us. She works in the Dormantie*
her name Susie and she Italian any time she see the MPA Workers she will
*ay Roosevelt Bums they cant fire Me. She does not belong to the Union
She even vent not so long ago put a whiskey bottle in one of the Orderly* Rooms
and he was fired She has been here so long it seems that she runs the Place.
The Supervisor if she says any thing she will ten her to shut her Mouth
their must be aomething rrong. 'Some Place. I wish you would look it up
yourself 1 could tell you more but what is the use 4, She is the worst
Woman for troube you ever seen She likes it But we dont
yours Truly
2 Orderlies
*dormitory
FROM LETTFRS OP BOSP T' T:ORKERS TO ZION
we earn an increas as it the work while it is not laborious
it (is) trying to do your work to pleas the Patients and our superiors
The Superiors can be unfare the estimate who are sick, often
Let an delusion and complain of being illtreated while we do every thing
that we are order to do. then the Patients complains to the supervisors
they believe the patients and down the Attmmimintwithout hearing
I made an application for a lieenst as a practical nurse for a State
Board of Burees EX006 I received a reply and an waiting as I an getting
false teeth as I send my Photograph 04I an a Oraduat with 30 yeara of
experience.
my mother was recently released trona sanatorium and
an gavelled to keep her elmfortably in her deelimpg years. I am
denied a living out allowanoe by sly immediate superior altho the Newry
element who just eome here are Living it immediately. These drumkards
are the ones who are getting the benefit of your hard work it
seems to me sometimes that it is done to discourage unionisation, bemuse
the Bowery element comes (to) work for a month and than another takes
his plump and so it goes one Mr. Berlin, the living in men here who have
been working here for a year or so should get the good beneelt
00
I ask this !Asti= *bout living out allowance and its just like talking
to the w all, no interest at all in her nen. I did not want to go over
her head and see Mr. L the greatest treat* to the union here
is the Bowery element and wheelie try to speak tedonisation to
Organiser of Local
threat
rint LET= F HOSPIV,L IVIREZN0 nIOTT
then they beckme very abusive 171 denouncin; our union. the quicker we
ciat rid of such nen te better our :lembership will increase.,