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Miss mew Tonasi
65 Barre St*
montpeller, Vt.
CV411qtte Balt
agat.
A rims= =MECUM=
BSC is Short and stocky Altddlitt brain muitactie
almost cowered his short upper lipg ahem that his side
rather flat nom ems red, toe. The palatal red of sunburn
free outdoor work*
"I take whatever lock I MA SOW be said. °EVA now
it's tim. Digging ditehesi It's better t m nothing* I
haren't a fewiir* ao I =nano to get acne with the little
I earn.
"I ean cut I've done it an and off for thirteen
years. I can't say I like it. The my is good, but whenever
get a chanee for other work I grab it. I've won tee many
of them stoneeutterel lives shartened* I don't sent it to
happen to ne. I went into the sheds In the first p2S0e be-'
oause I oculdn't nal other work I still work there ones
In a sadilis*
"I eaMS hees from Canada shoot I sae around fifteen.
mother, sister and I had been living there while er father
worked in the Barre sheds* I had one year et high "Whoa
here In Barre, thenI found work helping a brieklayer* It
didn't pey e uth become I Just helped a few hours a day* gr
father had been workIng In the sheds all his life, he died
two yeare after I quit school. The only reason I vont Into
the sheds amine because I needed nore money to support
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myself and my nether, abeems almmys after= to quit the
Sheds; X didn't like it inyveye so vbsewier any other Stab
showed up I grabbed it,
"Yes, my fatbni vas eorking here heroes the big strike.
resestarletm saying be ems manna at those Maelbebo
came in to put a stop to the strikes Same at them eouldn't
be, blamed, be said, they didn't know what it MSS all shout.
Thiry couldn't appreciate the dancers of stoneautting, same
of them had never seen a shed before, they 0Ouldn't =dorm
stand that these cutters bad aright to striae, end that
they deserved as much, pay as they *cold WU Many at'theee
strike breakers left Barre afterwards, thaw ear* cold shouldered
end looked dam upon, they oodldn't stand it, The ones that
stuck to the *beds end are still etntizte tea iLiffirent about
it now. /1/1 bat you couldn't get me of theta to gown to
sons other granite area as a strike breaker, not for Wise
the mow they're earning, Lots of Unsafe still aihemed
of abet they did, they don't even lent to speak about it$
tlatle *by it's difficult for you to get much information
from these Fremeh, nith some of them it ins *bard lessen,
they learned that from the snubs and the acid locks they
got from the people they :lad to meet end adnelo with every
dar.
Chime to go in the abed* now, 2 suppose
I would tabs it, it mould mesa more many, and leave this
4oh for someome 11,10 isn't trained to do other work,
"Paint married* I roam an Maple Street, There are
four roomers at the boluses O of them Is a stoneautters
Yes, be s Premeho I deft knot elm be same here, but he's
been working in the abode as Zang as I've known blat atdah la
about tan years. He tells me be ems snood to be =pried
ones, their bed the date est ad all. But as day obe
end told bin that if be tilde *t find some other weft outside
of She wouldn't merry bin. Bar oma people bad been
In the eremite business, end ehe maid she Imated to book
sew tram it, She'd alveolar seen too amok goon and slabs.
noes. well this Al, that's his nem, didn't know any, other
trade, besides he ems peeved, said it vas devil of a time
to tell Wan 'boat the data man set and sU, so it ended
right there. They never gat marled. U. tells ne sod
this is the rummy pert of it that Oho ens serried a maple
ot years later and to a steneoutter•
"Item lived in several rooming bemese* Bost et the
larAlsd$ es were wives of Italian or Peen*, smite lowlewo,
Boot of tbmm had good steed realise, toe. I "es notieed
that in the French homes the children are node to oPoik
their native language nom than in the Italian homes, I
lived with sone Italian people for a year, the man vas my
shed bow. The two oldest children spoke Italian fair]'
wells the three younger ones could understand it, but I
never beard them speak it. I don't Ienow why it is, but
the rremeh seem sore eager to beep their language alive.°