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BRENT GLASS:

Did they ever talk there about starting a union?

ZELMA MONTGOMERY MURRAY:

No, not while I was there. That was a real good place to work there.

BRENT GLASS:

Would you have joined if they had started a union? Did you ever think about that?

ZELMA MONTGOMERY MURRAY:

Well no, I never did think about it. But I always felt this way in a place like that: that you depended to your living. And I always felt like if the majority was in it, well then I wouldn't hold them back. That's all I know, although I don't believe in the union.

BRENT GLASS:

What about you, Mr. Murray? If they had had one over here at Glencoe would you have joined?

CHARLES MURRAY:

Well, I don't know.

BRENT GLASS:

Did you ever think about that?

CHARLES MURRAY:

I didn't think much about it, no. Well, the union's all right, but they get too. . . .

ZELMA MONTGOMERY MURRAY:

Well, I never did think nothing about the union, but that's the way I feel. I think I would have thought about it if they had formed a union and the majority was going to. I wouldn't have been different; I'd have been with the bargaining. That's the only way to get anything is to stick together.

BRENT GLASS:

Yes.

ZELMA MONTGOMERY MURRAY:

When I worked at Brown there was never no talk of no union. And even when I worked down here for Mr. Green in finishing. I liked it both places.