Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

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wasn't even working there; just two days and over Meadow
Mill was about six months.
And them days we used to come home and go out and play
in the afternoon before it get dark in summertime. And the
only thing you used Union Avenue Jerkwater
was if you walked all the way over to get to the Jerkwater
up Union Avenue you might as well walk the rest of the way
home. While you was waiting for it, i-t: would be loaded and
half the time you had to make some of it get off because
the car couldn't get up the hill with them on. But today
people don't want to walk a block,they park and don't want
to walk a block.
Harvey: Do you remember your bosses in Meadow Mill?
Lewis: Meadow Mill - the only boss I had was Mr. Isaac
MacDsnald - he was my boss, he was the only boss I had up
there. There was a couple men worked there, but at that
time they didn't seem to have much to say to any of them.
I don't remember too many people in the twisting room; a
woman by the name of Parks, a girl by the name of I
I remember them two, and they were about my age.
Over in Hooper's I knew quite a few of them; Mr. -
cause I run around.
Harvey: Was there a union when you worked in Meadow Pill?
Lewis: No, there was no unions in either one of the m ills
when I worked there - na unions at all. Well, in fact,the
war was an you didn't need them; they paid you good money.
Come around selling us Liberty Bonds; every time 1 bought
a Liberty Bond, take out a dollar a week I got a dollar or