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FORM C
TEXT OF INTERVIEW (UNEDITED)
STATE New York
NAME OF WORKER Clarence Weinstock
ADDRESS 45 Morton Street
DATE June 27, 1939
SUBJECT Needle Trade Workers' Interview HAVE I A RECRUIT
FOLKLORE
NEW YORK
Once we had a recruiting drive in the union and we were checking
up haw many new members we had and what prospects for new recruits. So
this man said the following:
"Brothers, I'm all mixed up. As you know I am a niddle trades
voiker and I voik in a dress shop as an hoperator. So I was voiking
on the next hoperator but since the machines run fast and there is lots
of speed up I couldn't talk to him during voiking hours. So every morn-
ing I cane oily and I vaited for him downstairs and I voiked on him.
Every lunch hour I didn't go to my restaurant but I vent along to his
restaurant and I voiked on him. He vas gentile and I vas Jewish and
it vasn't at all the food I vented but I didn't care as long as I
voiked on him,. Every night I didn't go home in mine subway to Brooklyn
but I vent vit him to the Bronx and voiked on him. And so, brothers I
voiked on him a whole year. Finally I signed him up. The best vay
as you know is to bring the recruit to the meeting and not wait he
should cone himself. So tonight I came to his home to take him" (add
here he became very pale and he paused for a few minutes) "I found out
that he died. And now I hask you: Have I a recruit or I haven't a recruit
and do I get the credit?"
Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview
FOLKLORE
FORM A NEW YORK
Circumstances of Interview
STATE New York
NAYE OF WORKER Clarence Weinstock
ADDRESS 43 Morton Street
MTE June 27, 1939
SUBJECT Needle Trade Workers' Interview
1. Date and time of interview June 26, 1939
2. Place of interview Public Library
3. Name and address of informant
4. Name and address of I.,erson, if any, who put you in
touch with informant.
5. Name and aderess of pt:rson, if any, accom7aning you
6. Description of r)or, house, surroundinj, etc.
(Use as many additional sheets as necessary, for any of the forms,
each bearing the oroper heading and the number to which the material
refers.)