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But the other thing was, when the settlement--we had a big press thing, and the angle was used was, this is the first step. Union power and soul power equals freedom for hospital workers. That was Andy's line. We coined the slogan. Soul power. Union power plus soul power equals victory. And Andy said, “This is the first step. Now that we've gotten to know each other, we've been engaged, and now 1199 and SCLC are going to get married, and we're going to go together. The next step is Baltimore. That's where we're going next.”

Before we came to Baltimore, the hospital association said, “We don't have to have an election.” We'd been organizing there. “We don't want to have another Charleston in Baltimore.” Election in Johns Hopkins. Several months later, Mrs. King comes the day before the vote. Mrs. King, Ray Scott of the Baltimore Bullets, we have the pictures, standing in front of the hospital and greeting. Press conferences, and then shaking hands with every single worker. We win big.

That is pretty much the part of the story of the Charleston strike.

It's a good story.

I think there must be a song. I don't know. There must be a song some place. A good story. Yes, it's great. But that's only really part of it.

The other side is the organizing aspect.

The organizing and the relations of workers, keeping the workers together and the attitudes of workers during the strike. There's the SCLC thing.

By the way, Leon Fink interviewed Andy for his book, but he doesn't go into detail. He just evaluates these things.

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