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How did they get used, do you know?

I have no idea how they were used -- gifts. We also published a certain number in hard cover. I remember -- first let me tell you about the AFL-CIO.

I was anxious to get the AFL-CIO interested. I remember I went one day to Washington -- then I was active in the Professional Employees Department, with Jack Golodner who is very close to us. I said to Jack, “Jack, I've got the art and I've got them on slides.” I arranged to put them on slides. What I was doing, I was going around from place to place or inviting people up to the union, and I would do a show. I would put the thing on a slide show, and I would then say, “The quotation is this. This is the art.” So they could see what was involved. I remember Irving Stern came once, and he bought 250 for Local 342. He was just flabbergasted at what we were doing.

But I called Jack and I said, “Look, at the next Professional Employees Department meeting I'd like to be put on the agenda to do my spiel on this.” He said, “Okay. We happen to be meeting in the board room of the AFL-CIO,” and they brought in the projector. Al Shanker was the chairman of the Professional Employees, so they turned it over to me and I did my shthick. I didn't know how it was going to be received. People said it was very nice and I passed out the form if you want to order, but I didn't want to, you know, put anybody on the spot. Al Shanker came up to me after the meeting and he said, “Moe, this transcends our differences. I want to get books. I want to get 2000 books and 2000 posters.” By this time I was already talking about posters, which ones were going to be posters. If you ordered 1,000 posters you can get an imprint, with your name on it. You know, Pam designed it in such a way that there could be an area for an imprint.

The next day I got a call from Ed Garvey. He said, “Moe, this is Ed Garvey of the NFL Players Association.” I said, “Yes, hi, how are you?” He said, “I want to order 1500 Images of Labor.” I said, “How do you know about it?” He says, “I was at the meeting yesterday!” He says, “You know, I had to pinch myself. I couldn't believe it, that I was sitting in a meeting in the AFL-CIO headquarters and there was an imaginative thing being projected there!” [laughter] He says, “I want to give this to every member of the NFL Players Association.” “Okay, don't push me. You've got it.” So, these things were happening. The word began to spread that there was a hot thing.

Then we began to talk about posters. I began to find out the cost of doing the kind of poster that Pam wanted to do -- she would design the poster. The color separation had to be done outside Washington by