Earl D. Allen, Kaysville, Utah: an interview by Winston P. Erickson, June 12, 2000: Saving the legacy tape no. 38

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EARL D. ALLEN J 12 2 can hold an office." "Well, we'll waiver that because .... " o I£ und ut ab ut uni n . W would go up there in officers' meetings and there would be t n r tift n p pl th r and we would pass a bill. Then the membership meeting, there would be le s peopl in th membership than there was in the officials, so we could pass any damn bill we wanted. Anyhow, these old guys were complaining about- we had weekend duties. We had to rotate it. On a weekend we had to stay by a telephone in case there was a problem with the sewer lines. We had to be on call so we could go check it out. If it was an emergency and needed help, I could call in the rest of the crew, but we didn't get paid for it. So they were complaining and bitching about it, so we would go up to the meeting with what was supposed to be the city engineer, but it was his assistant we went to. Anyhow, we get up there, and the old guy said-! forget what the hell his name was-he said, "What's your problem?" I looked around and nobody was saying anything. So I speak up. In the meantime, I had been promised the assistant for the gang, and nobody said anything. So I told them what the deal was. I said, "This was the deal when I got hired, so I have no complaint. But these men say it was put on them and they don't get paid for it, and they are complaining about it." So it went on and they decided then that you would get paid a day's pay for the weekend. So that was all right, but when the assistant foreman job came up, somebody else got it. I had a few words with the foreman of the sewer division. I came out to Hill Field. I had been out to Clearfield at one time while it was still operating. They said, "Oh, you have got to go to Ogden and take a civil service exam." I don't go for none of that shit, see, so I didn't do it. When I went out to Hill and they told me, so I go 37