Res.5.16 Male resident, 29 yrs, married, corporation tenant, male interviewer, 27 November 1961

INTVEE left school at 14 when his father was still a prisoner of war, his first job was as a can boy on a building site making cups of tea, he then went to the shipyards but his apprenticeship was interrupted by National Service. INTVEE and his wife moved to Edinburgh at the time of the rivetters strike so there wasn’t a job available. He did some engineering then eventually got a job at Henry Robbs. He was laid off last year. He was offered a job in England but was told he would have to move his family down. He went back to the firm where he was apprenticed but the carpenters and acetylene burners were on strike so he returned to Edinburgh and got a job with Duncan's, sweet manufacturer. He then worked at a factory belonging to Bonington Castings which was better money but unhealthy. He is now back at Robbs for 10 weeks. He belongs to the Boilermakers Society. He says the shops in Leith who take non-union labour are called "Scab Shops". He and his family are Catholic.