b"What conditions didn't they like? What were they upset about?[long pause.] A lot of things. Like I said, we were getting paid every other week. Or was it the 1st and the 15th? I think itwas the 1st and the 15th. They wanted weekly pay. Sometimes the supervision came down hard, whether it was themaintenance men, the caretakers, the caretaker X. This was in the Housing Authority I think there were other locals there.Members from other agencies were there, not just the Housing Authority; like from hospitalssections of Local 237.People from 237 said everything was good for them. But people from hospitals said this wasn't good, that wasn't good. There were people from different agencies-housing, hospitals, from the Housing Authority at the meeting.Who was the most dissatisfied?From the hospitals. In the 1960s. They wanted to go out on strike. Bill Lewis told them, You could lose their jobs, theycould lose everything you worked for. They didn't go on strike, because they could lose everything. When I went to GoldStreet, I think they had two rooms. Henry was the first president. They came a long way. Lewis told them, You've come along way from what we had, from what we had on Gold Street. So the Housing Authority, they didn't go on strike. No onewent on strike after that meeting. Because he told them, you may lose your job. Nobody wanted to lose their job at theirtime. This was when Bill Lewis was first president of the local.So that's a meeting that stands out in your mind.Yes, because he said, Don't hit the bricks, don't hit the bricks; everything you worked for-don't lose it. Because whenyou worked at the Housing Authority, a benefit they gave you was, they gave you three days off a month. That's a lot.Today I heard some of the Housing Authority personnelyou know how long it takes to get three days off now? Five years.They give you half a day a month off. When I went in, I got three days every month. When I retired I had a lot of days. Itold the lady to dump it. The lady told me, you can' t dump your time. So I worked one week and stayed off two, for aboutsix months, to use up all my time.What about the strike? . That Carl was involved in the elevators werent working.I think I had just come to the Bronx. The elevator maintenance men and foremen, well, they were more together becausethey made more money than the average personnel at the Housing Authority. I don't remember much about that. But onthe whole, as far as I know, the Housing Authority personneloffice workers, caretakers, the jess, the as-they never wenton strike. I don't remember missing a day.There were also demonstrations. Some that we have photographs of -pickets at City Hall. Do you remember issues related to that?No, as I said, the Housing Authority came together. Maybe what they did at Brownsville they didn't do at Bronxdale,what they did at Williamsburg they didn't do at Castle Hill. Eventually they all came together, they worked as a team.I worked a five-day week. If you were on a weekend schedule your time came up on a rotation schedule. During thesummer months if it hit 90 degrees, at 1 o'clock you went home. I think we got the same straight time for weekendsat that time.It was just a difference in scheduling. If you worked weekends, you got the same straight time.15 "