We weren't allowed to be in the Union. Very few men were
actually, in those days, because ... anybody who was known to be a
Union supporter, I'm talking about the men, he wasn't very well
liked among the bosses in fact they very often tried to get rid of
them or ... get rid of them in any way shape or form, and it was
quite a long time before the Union got some sort of hold to help
the men in those days. My father was a very strong Union man and he
always insisted that once I became a man's age that I would join
the Union, which I did, and carried on up to the day I retired.
