Interviewer: So then ah you said that your- well your father was- I- I'm assuming was working at the- he- where did you say he was working? Speaker: He was assayer. Interviewer: Okay. He was- he was an assayer at the mine? Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Okay. I work in the assay lab actually. Speaker: Oh do you? Oh well he was the chief assayer at Panmore. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: He'd gone to ah the Haileybury School of Mines.

Interviewer: ... but ah were you ever worried for your father and his work and the job that he did? Speaker: Just the year that um ah they tried to form unions. Interviewer: Oh okay. Speaker: And ah ah he wasn't management, he was the assistant assayer at the time. And ah they were two unions that were trying to organize. And one was known as, a red one, I think they called it. Um and it- it was a chance time and then there was the year of the strikes.

Speaker: Do you know when I first started working for the O-N-R, ah in fifty- nineteen (inc) I guess it would be about fifty-four, I was making more money than my father. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: You-know? And he was the chief-assayer? Interviewer: Wow. Speaker: You-know when you think of comparisons. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: And I didn't know that until he did my income tax that year (laughs). And ah and you-know- and I was a high-school drop-out.