Discrimination and perseverance at the Docks

And my uncle was quite lucky, actually, my mom's brother, because it went from father to son, you had to have relations in the dock to work there, but his old head master at school spoke for him, and he got him in the docks. Otherwise you couldn't get in the docks. It's not something I've had before. Yeah, you couldn't get and I knew this guy, a West Indian guy from one of my clubs, and when he came over and he couldn't get a job in the docks because he was black, so in the end, he got a job on the railways, but he was a good boxer, and he got quite famous as an amateur boxer, and in later life, he met up with his person that didn't want in jail, and he wanted him to go and work in the docks because he was a good he said no, and he had a better job because in the railway had a pension and everything.