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So what was your next job after the jute bags?

I got promoted upstairs as they call it, to be a sewer of the jute bags. There was always a contest on who was the fastest sewer.

Did you ever win?!

Yes. I was, after a while I became one of the fastest sewers. Jimmy Drummond was the fastest man they had in the plant for sewing.

So how fast, how many bags did you sew? So many an hour or a day?

Err... we, I can't remember exactly, but I think Jimmy could sew one in about 35 seconds.

That was just sewing the top?

Sewing the top. Those are the ones, that you see, sometimes you see pictures of them and they have ears, and you just sew them across.

How long did you have that job?

Ok? 1950 I was in the box cars untill? Ok in 1951, I probably had that job for a couple of months. I was just working seasonal you see. No seniority, I'd just started, so I only worked part-time.

So were you still going to school as well then?

No.