When I came out of the army I worked in various jobs. I worked, selling, I worked in shops, and I also worked in various other jobs like as a truck driver and eventually in 1950 I joined the wharves and I become a member of the Sydney branch of the Waterside Workers’ Federation. Now, before that, I used to go down to the Sydney Domain every Sunday and listen to the speakers, and the speakers that intrigued me more than anything else were the Communist speakers and I listened to them very carefully and they were very good, they spoke very well and they spoke with authority and so when I went into the union, the Sydney branch of the Waterside Workers’ Federation, I was well aware of the fact that the Sydney branch of the Waterside Workers’ Federation was a very active trade union, and I wasn’t in the union very long before I joined the Communist Party in 1953.