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A: Wery year. Ebery yeax ever since I can rememher. Oh, it' s been for
years.
Q: Okay. At the end of our tape last time e e re done, you told
m a little bit about same of the problems betwen the foreigners, or
with the foreigners.
A: In vhat way
Q: Xn the coal mining industry, with the unions and . . .
A: Well, there msn't too mch. They mwked pretty mll together. Only
thing is, it msn't so rmch the language and the different people, you
how, different languages of the people, it was the camrmJnists in there
at that time. That ms during the time that they -re mre or less
organizing here in the United States. You r-r, that ms cmdng in
Q: Yes.
A: Just like, remember Budenz Do you remder him But
c d s t , then he finally got away frm it. NE! fourd out
weren't so rmch.
Q: Cb really Maere n s he frm
he was a great
that they
A: He's frm this cauntry. I m he ms the head of the
Party at one time, I think, around here. You know how they had the
Cammist Party around here. You don't see it that mch now, the (kmmnist
Party going, but at that time, they thought mybe they'd organize and
finally put a big hold in it. But they wer did get tw far.
Q: Okay. Let me ask you a couple of things from the last tape. What
job did you have in Chicago in 19292
A: Well, hen I first got there, there was a my contacted me, and I was
selling three different mgazines, The m ' s Horn w o n , Redbook,
and Collier's. That was on State S F e e m to ~ go out ~ m e
district manager. He'd take us in the mming and he'd set us at a
place, w 'd go £ran house to house. If you sold three, you ere doing
good, and 1 sold three easy, everyday just about for a ~ i l there. e W1t
how many doors you'd get slam& in your face everyday. (laughs)
Q: Yes.
A: You'd go from house to hause, at that time I think yau'd have to
collect a little aver a dollar. That was a lot of money at that th
w k there, that tas in 1929. You'd collect a dollar-sane frm than, and
then you'd say, 'Well, the district mmgw will c m back and vouch Em
this" and everything. But if you got that, if you gt wer four dollars
that day, that ms big mmy aver there. Then you'd meet the district
manager d e r e in a pool hall. That's where R wmld zneet after
everybody muld congregate. He'd have three or four guys with him, and
he was the head guy selling that day. But I just couldn't go that. I