b"But were there any shop stewards?There was a shop steward- -I think his name was Gil King.Do you remember any later shop stewards?I didn't go to too many projects, but each project had a shop steward.Are you saying they weren't very busy because things went very smoothly?Everyone knew their job, everyone knew what they were supposed to do. Once they got things running smoothly, I didn't Honest, when I went to work, I went to a project. I never worked in there, when I went, I went as provisional maintenance.When I left Bronxdale I left with Sal Inello. He was the superintendent housing over on 3rd Avenue in the Bronx. The fellow that worked there, he was a maintenance man. He was more from the union, he worked more with the union.Eventually he became the superintendent of the project, of Morris Houses. I forget his name. That was back in the 70s, 76, 77?So you went to work for the Housing Authority in 1952, and you retired from the Housing Authority in what year?In 1976. I worked my whole career with the Housing Authority in different locations. They were all very good people.Like this fellow Sal Inello, I don't know if he's still around or not. It was a pleasure to work for the Housing Authority. Youwork for some of the other agencies but you never knew which way you were going. At the Housing Authority, you knewwhich way you were going; you just had to get together.Why do you think it was different at the Housing Authority?The people were more together. You work at the HA if I said I needed a dollar, you would loan it to me. People werevery nice. I imagine in other agencies there were good jobs, too, but they came and they went, like in hospitals, whatever.In the authority, you knew where the guy was. How did the Union change the job?There were major improvements. They came frequently. We got health insurancein HIP . . .When the pension planbecame available, I joined right away. When I came out of the army, I couldn't get a job. $1,200 was a lot of money.I started taking out $30 for a pension. I still had a hack license then.You were about to tell us about a union meeting.I remember a union meeting with Bill Lewis. He was the president right after Henry Feinstein. They wanted to strikeagainst the Housing Authority. Where this meeting took place, I really don't know. Everything was off keel at that union meet-ing. The union body . but Bill Lewis told them, Don't hit the bricks! meaning, don't go out on strike. Stick with the union.Why did they want to go on strike?It was the members who wanted to go out on strike. They didn't like the working conditions. All the titles were involved.14 "