b'Did you realize there would be legal ramifications?Well, no. I didnt know I was going to be in trouble until six months later or a year later. My name came up withseven or eight others, like Lenny Gordon, his name came up, Mitch Storey, the guy who did the boat, his name came up.So, Barry was facing 55 years. But nothing happened. The funny thing is, in between all these other indictments, doyou know Barry threatened them with another strike? We were going into negotiations. At that time, each group hadabout 20 different pay scales, and Barry wanted to compress them down to four. So, the guy from the city says, I dont carewhat you do, were not going to do nothing. That night, Barry went on TV. I was standing behind him, me and Lenny Gor-don and a few other people.Barry says, Were gonna have a strike. Im not gonna tell you when. Im gonna make youguess. Now, this is a Friday. By Monday the city said, You can have anything you want. Calls started coming into theunion headquarters. It was such a scare that the city said OK, you got it. . . .At the time that this happened, we had two supervisors at each section. Now, when the tests came out, when I tookthe test, it was a union deal. One year the sanitation workers go on strike, theyre not indicted. The transit workers went onstrike. They indicted the head guy, [Transit Workers Union President Mike] Quill, but they didnt bother the workers. Youknow what Im saying? We didnt know we were going to be indicted. But the thing is this, I weigh everything, and Imhappy the way things worked out because, like I say, they made me a supervisor, I made more money, I have a betterpension. So if you take it all said and done, I came out ahead. Even with the seven years.So, this is my feeling.You guy were really loyal union members.Yes, we were, we were. I always believed, if you want to join a union, you want to, you got to be part. There are nohalfway measures here. You know what I mean? I figure, youre a union member, you do things, and thats it. The bottomLine, when I agreed to become recording secretary, I had to put my money where my mouth is. You got to either fish orcut bait. So, when the time came for the strike, I had to take part.\x02James SpicerNYCHA Heating Plant Technician, Union ActivistFor 16 of his 38 years as a heating plant technician and shop steward at BreukelenHouses, from 1970-86, James Spicer coached a little league football team, with helpfrom Local 237. Following is Spicers story of the Falcons.It started with the kids tearing up the grounds at Breukelen Houses. The tenants didnt like that they were messingup the grounds and throwing the ball under their windows.I was a fireman (now called heating plant technician) at the projectI worked there for 38 yearsand I also lived118 '