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Hischuch, George, undated, tape 1, side 2

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George Hischuck, Sr.:  Yes, sir. You brother, come for the country. Men
work ten year for the company. He got laid off. No business. Will you go?
Do you go? Fire this man. He go either this young man. My brother said no.
He say. Just pick it up. You call them back. Man back. This thing for me? I
begin a job. They give me a job. Machine is helping. 50, $0.55 an hour. One
fellow American fella. Oh, I see. These men got killed. You mean lots of
men could work with his body to three day cricket? But to. I say, not like
these men. The one fella, Italian fella. The Italian born Chicago. Shorter
fella. He's a machinist. He's a machinist. Machinist? Yeah. He say,
Charlie, I take you your brother for the body. Equities. Johnny Bull will
take Johnny Bull for bargain. He said lots of boys quit for this. I look at
it and I say, Boy, I see you someplace. This thing got no wife. I fix you
some. And I got, you know. Yeah, I know. Can speak English. I know bad
words. I know some of the way you learned that right away, huh? Good war.
Take a long time frame. After I worked for These Italians are all nice.
Nice work on any payday. Lay off. No business to no business. How long do
you work for him? About a year. Are you working? Maybe. I bet you half a
year that'd be more. Half a year. This Italian fellow say, Say, George, you
drink a wine. Make a wine, you know. I say I didn't say how. I don't think
like that. Make a hog myself. You know I'm single. I look for Blondie. You
know? He say, Come Sunday, my woman, go to church. I got a good man. He
make a wine like Muscatel California. He make it this year. Stay maybe two,
three years, you know. All right. I get up in the morning. My brother went
someplace in the church or what? And I go for my father not too far from
his house. He has borrowed.

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But the door is open. Come on.

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Hischuck:  Taking my place. Bottle wine. Maybe six. Seven. So, George,
buddy, I give you this one with me drinking my honey. What are you buying?
Less quaterna peaches and. Talking. You bring another crack?

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You like a drink? So.

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Hischuck:  I give you half a crown. I'll send you. I love salad.

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I want to give you a couple of dollars. Okay.

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Hischuck:  Why are you packing cigarettes or something? Nice fella. Nice. I
bring this wine, I hide in my room all the time. Come for work. Me and my
brother want banana, you know. Where is my brother? His wife make her
supper. He eat. Everybody looks My brother say I like something than not. I
say you wait. I go no room. I bring it my brother other way He say. I bet
you. I say no you business. I know. Was my brother good for this brother?
Good. After this company. Oh, no. Business company. No business. This man
in. Chicago, Negado. He went back to Chicago. Back again. You born right
here, you say? I got a friend over there. My mother. Father. He say, Jorge,
you. I know work. You go in a pocket, you give me five bucks. I don't want
to take it. You say, Bye, you shoe. Pray for me. I say I go pray for you.
Honest, nice man. Just like my daddy. Oh, he is nice. One time I meet my
buddy Johnny, who? I say, he said, Where you work, George? He call me Big
George. I say, No, you business was real work. I work a coal mine. I say
you want a job? You say, No, no, this is my pension. Yeah. That's how I see
you. Just one time. One time. I see you. You? How many years did you work
in the mine? When did you come up?

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George Harvey:  Why did you come up to the mines? Because no work down in
Pittsburgh. Then you come up to the ace bar.

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Hischuck:  No work. You got a strike. You want a ten cent raise company cut
the $0.10. All the bad job done in Pittsburgh. Okay. I got lots of friends.
Too bad they are. Where's July? Maybe in November, you know? Yeah. Charlie?
Charlie? Yeah. You live in Atlanta with Effi's house, right? Yes, bro.
Where you go? I live in 64 hours. 30? 36 years. Company turned me down this
house. A one Saturday. This man, he died. Both two children died. A boy
died. This boy wasn't living. He died two years later. He died. Mike
Working a man. Are you living over there? This house. He by whatever number
for right here. Not a street. I work in a store with my back. I see. Two.
Man two Lady Docker. I say English, you know. I come close, I say hello.
Hello. I know people in Pittsburgh. I don't know. These people come through
Minor. Stop that talk. I said stop. That's why I say I go next door to
Forest by Taikatsu wherever I want a small. Start right here. Just right
for this house. I go in, I store, buy a pack of cigarettes. I say, you
smoker, you say, Yeah. I say where you come from. He say, I come from. Mine
was place years ago. They gave me $1 million. 2 million? I don't know what
it is for. You say yes was. I said, Which kind of job you do? You work in a
mine. Can you get in the mine cave? No. No. I say you think you can get a
job? Say you give her a dress. What do you call this? A borrow. You say?
Yeah. You say it can't be reversed. Nabeno hacker you November before what
you pull that one card people the two three flats cold you know you know.

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Harvey:  Just just a little, little one one car train.

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Hischuck:  Yeah. One, Yeah. One car of the people going to come from
Pittsburgh.

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Harvey:  Pittsburgh coach and then one coach.

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Hischuck:  He all a coach. Coach. Oh yeah. Okay. This is a Saturday. July.
Come take a train. Get up from the date and get the ball. Are here was a
salad. Beer or. You got a space station?

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Harvey:  Station.

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Hischuck:  Uh, it is. I hear you got a company store. Each store got a PR
company.

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Harvey:  Everything burnt down.

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Hischuck:  There, wasn't it? Down this whole mine in the morning over
there. You know, Got nothing. Mr.. No, I lost an award. I like. I like. I
live in it. Want to kill me? Russia. Uh. You say where you come to the
company store, you walking out? He'll. July, people sit on the porch. What
the speaker said. I'm talking English. Come. Hello. Hello. You're calling
hours? You got a suitcase here? I don't know. I ask him. Charlie. He got
out. Ask people over there. He say, Me? January, November, January. Oh,
yeah. Yeah. You know, say, with your daddy living right here. His mother
from my town. My neighbor. Honest. She got a baby. I don't know. I think
John, Your brother.

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Harvey:  John. Lorena. Either one.

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Hischuck:  John. John. I talked to Mike one time. Mike told me. I said, I
bet you, John.

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Harvey:  Oh, yeah. Had to be John. He was born for. Yeah.

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Hischuck:  Not a streak. Why is Saturday? Swansea. I walk on the street.
People walk. Look, one. Lots of people keep a cow. Pig chicken. I stay in
First Street. I do very much believe in Second Street. I cut him before he
got a fence, you know? Company put a fence. Monday morning said you dress
them up to work clothes. I will see you November, Jim.

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Harvey:  Jim Roof. He was superintendent.

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Hischuck:  No, he's this copalis cold policeman.

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Harvey:  Yeah.

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Hischuck:  He's a man. He got it totally, man. He is a school policeman. He
is a £300. He got a big highlight of that 200. 22. The world all the time
I cared. 32.

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Harvey:  All the time.

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Hischuck:  All the time. Uh, there's some way for this man to come. Ray?
Ray. Ray, come back. Shall I say.

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I have two men?

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Hischuck:  I see mine. And in my mind, I'm warning. Right. I walk.
Backstreet. Are you there? Stay in the porch. I'll never forget. There is
my grandma. I'm leaving you. We stay put. She look like that? Look, with
this man. I look and look. I can guess. 1914 war started. I know. Six,
seven, eight years. I start to walk. I come close to the porch. I say.
Hello, Mr.. Look to my face. I look at his face. I say, You know me. I
guess. I say you jump behind. Are you sure? This chick? I said yes. He.
Love me. You start to cry. I start to cry. You say when you come. George,
say last Saturday. Oh, say, come on. Now's. Honest mother is a granddaddy.
She cooked chicken, you know, she eat the chicken. Got a baby long time ago
in the hospital, you know, Got the money. She kiss me. Kiss me when you
come. This talk never come. All right. You got something? I don't know what
to think or why or what. You say you go ahead. Go. Bring your suitcase. You
go to my place. I said No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I find your job?

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Hischuck:  You know.

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Hischuck:  You say I'm as good for it. All right. Me, Daddy, go to ricotta.
But this man was making a Pittsburgh. You give us? Lots of mail, lots of
cream, butter. Uh, Sandy. I say how much I owe you. Not. My brother gave me
$20.

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Say I give you something. Some day back. You give me.

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Hischuck:  $5? One dollars. I put a $5 per table under. You know, we have a
table, you know.

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Harvey:  Under the table cloth.

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Hischuck:  You want to take a nap in this? He said, I got lots of milk.
Lots of this. Women make a bread home. You know. What? If you want to bring
each other right to your place, then I know. I said keep it after I got a
job. Hit on this office. You know this right here. You've got really Chandi
Civara to where you put the sign on mine. You know, after you beat the big
office I work on outside. Lots of minor. Say you work five day. Six day. We
make $0.50 an hour. An hour. I work three days. I make more money. I see
mine. I never go in a mine. Inside the mine. One man for the thousand. You
say? I take your mind. Okay. You should tell your boss. You go quit. You go
to mine next week. Cha cha cha. A couple of of sure at this.

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I go in my mind. You know. Well.

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Hischuck:  My buddy shovel. Go shovel this one. I take a shovel. I want to
throw my. I shovel like this. Three, not a second. Or you say, No, George,
no. Take it easy. You come up here. No. Show me. I with his. You do? I no
can do. You know, you say, George. Everybody was not mine like that one two
months after you stole. You know. Worked for a while. But his man. Ready.
One Russian men living in a flat working through three day. These men, they
Robertson. He's a boss. Yeah. Hey, boss. Nice, boss. This is nice, fella.
Don't skip. Neunggye khomam the place you got. Hitting back, hitting all
the time. Very another very bloody working man hitting. I work in a back
hitting pool horror. Please go deep to all the time you come, I say I'm all
ready. Come on, help me push a cart, you know, and I hitting you. Well
worked for a while. The work. His boss. My son living at.

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Hischuck:  Here. Recommended a place.

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Hischuck:  Place. Hello. Hello. How are you? So look. And adored it till
we. What are you saying? I suggest you go in the park. You got $2. Another
one. I'm gonna need you to give you one nickel. That's tight for the
company. Magical happen. He's a go for it.

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Harvey:  Throwing the dirt back door.

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Hischuck:  Something, you know. I know you throw maybe 2 or 3 car doors and
I'll give you one penny.

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Harvey:  Some bosses would pay. Good. And the other bosses, You.

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Hischuck:  Know, some bosses have got a good heart, not got a big heart.
How much you make a day when you work in the mine? Well, you make a $2, $2
and a half. Big day. When you come on outside, you say God of I make a $3.
Ah, there you go. Buy for this. $3. A long time yesterday when you got a
$50.

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Harvey:  Yeah.

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Hischuck:  See. Right. How long? How many years.

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Harvey:  Do you work in the mine then?

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Hischuck:  38.

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Harvey:  38 years. All here in Yatesboro.

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Hischuck:  Yeah. It's a portal. Mine. The water come out of it. Shut the
market. Bring us this ball right here of mine. Number one. What? I don't
know how many years. Shut down before the new mine. No, mine. I worked 21
years. He shot down. 1853, January 8th shut down. You cannot place, you
know, Bill Robertson. Jim Robertson. Jim Robertson, My informant. You say
cleanup bulletholes. This mine goes shut down. Well, my shut down is 58
years young. No. 58. You will have to wait a pension. 60. Today. 55. We got
a map, you know, after it for Social Security. 65. Right. Right. Right. Why
I to sign half a year.

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Harvey:  Unemployment right.

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Hischuck:  After you told me. You say, George, you have to wait six months.
I will sign you again. Either you can get it second time, more signed, like
first time, you know. All right. I said it again second time. After. Yup.
No pension. No money. I look over, I hear Armstrong. I go, dear? Then you
gotta die. If we be blessed here. You ain't got no dime. Give you a glass
of water. I tired loafing. Where one time I a seminary.

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And I go to time I go still and to jail.

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Hischuck:  I go, Kitani I stop in the court. I know I. I see. Sheriff
System District attorney. Big shot. Small shot. I say I come right here. I
vote for you. That help me some jump. Uh, you say you know what you say
now. What do you have? I said yes to a job. I got 58 years. Two more years.
I can get a hundred on my attention. I don't want a job no more. I go live
in. Huh? You know De Lancey. Rey de.

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Harvey:  Lancey? Yeah.

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Hischuck:  He was his sheriff. Run for the Republican ticket. I is a minor
constable.

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Harvey:  Right? Yeah, he was constable for a long time. I don't remember.
Yeah.

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Hischuck:  I work in the mine. We got the scraper, you know, after you run
to share it. Public. 11 years border. You come up one time and say, Hey.
Change, change Democrat. He say, George, I don't care. I make it no matter.
I go no change. I say, you be. You don't. Second time you make. Shall. I
stopped. I said, here I go. Now can I go on? Steal it. I go. Take it. Come.
Bring me right here. I want a good supper. I want a whiskey, beer, chicken
for supper. He said, you. You go to this one. I say, I mean it. We say,
Come on, go fishing. I say, Mom, honey, make a couple of sandwiches. You
put a half a club this Budweiser beer. Whatever. Say you say, George, say.
Okay. Thank you. I want one. Another one drink at this time. I said before
I go in the town, I go steal it. I go steal. This time I'm not scared. I
said, Hey, how about some job? I'm 58. Your side no more. I know. I go too
far away. I want to lie here close to home. You say, George, I go to sleep.
I go. Lots of pictures. I say okay. She was.

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Hischuck:  Hey, hey, hey, hey.

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Hischuck:  You know John Saylor?

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Harvey:  Yeah. John Saylor.

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Hischuck:  Congress is dead. Yeah, Harry Fox is working the court.

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Harvey:  Yeah, he was his secretary.

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Hischuck:  The secretary? Mary de Lancie George. Chancellor, I hereby call
on you. Help you with your.

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Hischuck:  You wake.

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Hischuck:  Your nahala Italian or call me talk to.

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Sheriff. Tok, tok tok Chancellor.

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Hischuck:  This congressman is secretary. Your work. Regillensis. Hey,
mister, shake hands with this boy for this man.

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Harvey:  John shook hands. I said, hello.

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Hischuck:  What's your name? George.

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Hischuck:  What's your last name? Hischuck. What's the trouble? I say I
look for a job.

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Hischuck:  How old are you, George?

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Hischuck:  Which year were you born? 1895. Would you were there April 28th.
Right. I say I'm 88. Look for job. You say? Howdy. Howdy, folks. Take a
Jew's name, address, everything. He say. You go in there. No, I say,
mister, I go with you. You mind? Will you give us a skip? Mine. I no go.
You give me $2,000. I'm working a scammer. Huh? I say I go skip mine. I
work one now, but I lost everything.

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You in oblivion.

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Hischuck:  An address is a border where they. You know. Oh. Hey, they say,
George, you go get a liver. Please, will you come get me? Stop it. Tell me
what you say. I said, hey, when you get over there, I. Stop it. So. Okay,
talking. He said, Let's go in our kitchen. Take another bite, take a shot.
Okay. I walk in a town. I stopped a sender. Hotel?

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Yeah. Finally big shot.

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Hischuck:  There can never be one man bringing otherwise. 16 Bottle of beer
a double. Erich Segal seven and Hamburg sandwich. I say, Hey, who? There
were this bunch of mens about. I say, maybe John, you know. All right.

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Hischuck:  Great, great knowledge.

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Hischuck:  Knowledge.

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It aunis never let that be. Uh, a. Yeah.

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Hischuck:  You come Election Day right here. Yatesboro. Democrat. Right
here. Republican right here. Harry Fox. I'm leaving you. I see him. Hello?
Hello. What's wrong? Uh, Harry Fox has come. Hello, Mr. Hischuck. How are
you? Yeah, I said no. He is. No. How are ya, buddy? This is Borough. This
is Pennsylvania Yatesboro. Why are too far away? I don't know. Forget for
me. My boss lost the job. I lost. Thank Mr. Arness. I got on that town. I
want to tell her. I want to see Luster. I know. After that, somebody teach.
Yeah, I say, buddy, I think. I say I can buy you by my ear. I buy you, you
buy mine. I can read your mind. I say, this is a free country, Harry Fox,
I. I go, Kitanning. I see the lunch. I say this letter go to Moscow.

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Hischuck:  This.