Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

LEWLS;O99 I1:2:68
at them. A man can't do something for you, he can't do
nothing for you. He can, he does. After all, your boss
can only do so much for you. He can't d~ nothing else and
his boss or anybody else. Just like where I went to work
you realized your company didn't make money you didn't
have a job. Today you hear them all say oh, to hell with
the company. You hear them say this and that; if the
company isn't making money they're going to go broke, and
you're out of a job. Of course, you got unwtploymene and
all that, but that's running out on a lot of us.
Harvey: What kind of organizations were you in with Gus
Cavacos? I think earlier you said that you were in some
organizations w ith GUS Cavacos?
Lewis: I was in the Masonic Fraternity w ith him and a
couple branches of theirs. Gus was a Masan and then, of
course the ether organization, you had to be American born
to belong to them. Most 05 the people couldn't belong to
them. Only American born could belong to them, But that's
how I come around with Gus, silly Burns, a31
of us - we all went around together. They were older men
than I, but I enjoyed being with them.
Harvey: From the Masons? Was that Piekering Lodge?
~ewis: Pickering Lodge; Gus belonged to King David. Mast
of them around here belonged to Piekering Lodge because
~ickesing Lodge was founded in Mt. Washington and then moved
to Hampden. And a L ot of lodges - we built a big temple
downtown and used to m eet around. And then when they built