How do you get this to work the OP didn't even tell what transistor he was having problems with.
Well he said:-
I cannot get how a transistor work.
Not he couldn't get a specific transistor to work. So we too it as a conceptual difficulty he was having.
I got my hands on one and it was a big power transistor
As you now probably know, power transistors especially in the 60s had a very poor gain, in the order of 10 to 20.