95

Waln Brown interviewing Annie Maloney
-26 -
8/12/72
Tape 3-2

AM: I'll be 78 years old next month

WB: Then you'd been 15 or 16 when you came here?

AM: Yeh, 15, 16, I think I could have jumped them hedges

WB: I think you could almost do it now Annie, I never met a woman as strong as you

AM: No not now no Wally no, she says when I look at our Annie, how fast she was

WB: You was always workin'

AM: That's no when Mr. Oberander sold the factory to Abrams so when the old guy
come around, the big boss-superintender might as well say and we were all workin'
[names four women all with foreign names] and he seen those big overalls piled by me
and he told them that they shouldn't answer that he's watchin' me he had his watch
there and Mary said she had the notion to stick scissors in his rear

WB: That would give him a good shook

AM: Oh Mary's a divvil she often says Annie I'll never forget the jokes I used to pull and
after he was done, I don't know how many minutes he tapped me and he said,
"Stop the motor for a minute, I never knew that the Freeland Factory is the geeses
that laid the golden eggs," and I said, And you're gettin' them aren'tcha." and he said,
"Yes I never seen anybody workin' on the overalls like you ladies around here and and how do you
handle them, and whose goin' to carry them," well I said, "The boys [?????] [recorder off and then on]

WB: Did a lot of the women in Eckley go to work in Freeland

AM: No not many I tell you only 2 of us

WB: Just you and Helen

AM: In the other factories there was some in the shirt factory I don't know, not very many, see because
the younger people went away from Eckley and any girls that went in training they were nurses and
some got married and they went away, boys went to school and then they went to college and lots of them
smart, Emory has 3 brothers professors he had John teachin' state college I guess he must have