The Americans

Oh, the only ones we used to fight was the Americans. The reason for that was, where that come into being, we were getting a dollar and ten cents a day, that was our pay. But the Americans were getting about three dollars and ten cents a day. They were getting that much more money than we were getting. And they would go into a place and the place would begin charging more money for the Americans. And then we went in and we were being charged the same, but we weren’t getting the money they were getting. Now, the little hotels and all these sort of things, you know. Oh God, we used to be madder than hell at them. Oh, we used to fight them. No, I’m not kidding you, we used to fight them. Well, they’d come into a place, maybe we were stationed in a little place like New Westminister or a small little place, you know, and we couldn’t buy anything there, we didn’t have the money. They had the money but we didn’t, you see. They’d been there before and, of course, it was the same price for us as it was for them.