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Roscoe says I shouldn't go,
but I think I'm gonna.
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I'm not askin' anybody. I'm goin'.
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On October 8th, 1970,
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my grandfather,
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Isaac Abraham Warshawsky, aged 87,
died in his sleep in New York City.
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On the following Friday morning
his funeral was held.
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My mother and father attended.
My two uncles from Brooklyn attended,
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and my Aunt Minnie came up from Florida.
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Also present were 862 members of
the Amalgamated Clothing Workers
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and the Cloth Hat and Cap Makers
Unión of America,
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also members of his family.
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In death, as in life, they stood at his side.
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They had fought battles with him,
bound the wounds with him,
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had earned bread together,
and had broken it together.
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When they spoke, they spoke in one voice,
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and they were heard.
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And they were black and white.
They were Irish and Polish.
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And they were Catholic, and they were Jews.
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And they were one.
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That's what a unión is.
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One.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
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the textile industry in which you are
spending your lives and your substance,
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and in which your children and their children
will spend their lives and their substance,
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is the only industry in the whole of the United
States of America that is not unionised.