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Show _ose (1 /20/eJJ page 27 Mr. K No. Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. B ~r. K Mr. R Take my word for it. it was in the papers in New York. Not every .... ,.,... ad carried it, but the adsf didn't want Jews, so 1f you call that discrimination, that was the first place. We didn't really look at that as discrimination. I mean, I can't say that I did. What did you see it as? .. . 'i Every guy has the right to pick hislroad to go to hell, although I didn't t~ink of it in those words back then; if a guy don't want me, I'll go where I'm wanted. You thought it was just one more bastard on the seed? I can't think of 1t in terms of that because if I was a Jew I was not about to go higher some Catholic, certainly not a Polish Catho-lie. But would you have put it in an ad? I don't know because I was too young to go into business in those da¥s. I'm just telling you how I felt. I suppose I would have put it in an ad. Did you ever see any other abreviations besides that one? Oh, God, I can't remember if there were. That's the one I _'i ,· \ I l. -,""' • • • • • • • ~ -.. remember. I do know of people going to jobs.~~Y cousin went to Dards the florist, that's the doctor I told you about that's 1n Puerto Rico. He got a job at Dards Florist, they didn't know that he was Jewish. He went there ••• he applied, but he wasn't smart enough to change his name and they weren't smart enough to challane the name. So, he applied and said he wasn't Jewish, and he went to work there under the name of William Weise. I went to work for the Bardwill Company, it was a lace house, and I went to work for |
