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Show VI actory. ut my wife wasn t happy up th r and th t rth it. I ul it that way. In the meantime there was anoth r man th thad th u ht th stuff off so we were out right there and then. o I d cid d I id t m I n . my job in Utah as well as I can do it up here. He said You ·u ha n rry. Wherever you go, you will get work. If you ever come back this way and I h you'll have work, if you want it." That was Harold Dale a very nice fellow. hen h says, "I know that some of the other foremen that I have are down on you but I hav always considered you a hard worker and a good worker. I didn't pay attention to these guys. I know what you are worth." When I first came there, I was paid a dollar fifty. He said, "How much were you paid?" I said, "A dollar fifty." I will pay you whatever you're worth," he says. So he paid me a dollar fifty, the first week, the next week, he came and said, "That's not enough, I'm going to pay you a dollar seventy-five." The next week, I got a check for a dollar seventy-five per hour. Then, the following week, without saying anything, he paid me two dollars an hour. So I was within twenty-five cents of the fellows. So we moved down here to Utah. The businessmen who sat on the union, because they said I had to belong to the union, forced me belong to the union. So I belonged to the union up there, and came down here and said, "I belong to the union." He says, "Where's your book?" They wanted to see my book. I says, "They told me I couldn't get my book before I had a job." "Well you can't have a job before you have a book." So I said to him, "Okay, I will write in to the International, because you can't have one say I have to have my book, and the other says I don't." So I called them up in Idaho. I says, "Here's the situation. I'll have work as soon as I can produce my book. Now what is the order? He says it's this way and you say it's that way." I says, "I m 43 |
