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(Kaplan) Spitzer, Lottie (audio interview #9 of 9)

INTERVIEW DESCRIPTION - This is one of eight interviews with Lottie Kaplan Spitzer conducted as part of a Senior Honors project in collaboration with the Feminist History Research Project. Spitzer was very cooperative, but also a bit guarded, since she thought the interviewer was affiliated with the union (ACWA). The interviews were conducted at the ACWA Retirees Center, which probably helped Spitzer to remember and focus on her union experiences. On the other hand, it might have reinforced only positive sentiments about the union, particularly since at the time of the interview visits there constituted Spitzer's main social excursion. There is a great deal of overlap and repetitiousness between the interviews, partially because of Spitzer's tendency to go off into different directions in response to the interviewer's question. Clearly, certain events and people represent more salient memories and these are the ones she tends to repeat. Despite some of the repetitiousness, however, the interviews provide a nice picture of the kind of grass roots union organizing that women like her carried out, especially in the 1910s. TOPICS - Local 275; job responsibilities; Lillian Herstein; and Clara Leon;Local 275; strikes; family background; wages; and garment industry; 1975