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Working in Paterson
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Item Title
"I began selling newspapers early. I always worked."
Author/Creator
Interviewer: Taylor, David Alan, 1951-
Created/Published
August 04, 1994
Notes
Interview with Sol Stetin, former president of the Amalgamated Textile Workers Union, conducted at the American Labor Museum Botto House National Landmark on August 4, 1994.
I came to Paterson in January '21. I think that by the end of the year I was on the street selling newspapers. . . . So I began selling newspapers early. I always worked. I would sell papers right after school until eight-nine-o'clock at night. In those days you'd buy the papers and sell them. You'd get them wholesale. Either the "Paterson News" or the "Paterson Morning Call" or the "Press Guardian." There were three newspapers in Paterson at the time. . . . And so I earned money to help my family.
Subjects
Child labor--New Jersey
Interviews
Oral history
Polish Americans
Retirees
Sound recordings
Labor leaders
Newsboys
Ethnography
Interviews
United States--New Jersey--Haledon
Botto House National Landmark
The American Labor Museum
Object Type
Related Names
Narrator: Stetin, Sol
Medium
Analog Audio Cassette
Language
English
Call Number
AFC 1995/028: WIP-DT-A011; A: 00:09:00
Reproduction Number
AFC 1995/028: WIP-DT-A011
Part of
Working in Paterson Folklife Project
Repository
Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
afcwip dta00101
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcwip.dta00101