Now it was in the winter time, it was such an upheaval, that the tramway people, and the motormen and the conductors was watching what happened with us because they said, if they could do in the factory with us, then it would go across the board with everybody. We used to have collecting tins, because we haven’t got the money, we used to stand, and especially the day when the tramway men were paid, which I again believe was on a Thursday and they gave us very generously, I mean 10 bob in those days was hell a lot of money, but you would get that, because they thought we were doing something that might be for them eventually. Whatever we can do to help the union we would do so, and we used to go on picket, mind you there was no nonsense, the only nonsense there was, some girls went into work, but they went in by coach, and we used to shout at them, but that was all there was.
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