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Oh yes. I worked full time on Bread and Roses. I had an assistant, an administrator. I had Tony Gillote by this time, was the administrator. Towards the end Noni Perry -- who is mainly working on the performances in the hospitals, working with the hospitals -- and a secretary. That was it. I would move back, depending upon what was happening in the union. For example, if union negotiations were scheduled, I knew in advance so I would block out the time. I said, “From this period to that period I'll be in Bread and Roses, but I have to now turn my attention to that,” or anything else that would come up --

Primarily public relations things?

Oh yes, primarily public relations, publications, that kind of thing.

But at this point you really are not overseeing the 1199 news to any great extent.

Well, there would be a monthly meeting with the staff, that would go over what goes in. Then just phone calls, that was it.

I'm just trying to get a sense of what your relationship was to the day to day work of the union, by this point.

Let me sing part of it.

Sing the whole thing!

No, the whole thing would take forever. The thing is, this was prepared -- I asked my brother Henry to do it when we were submitting the proposal. The original proposal I said to Henry, “Let's get a song,” and we did what we did at the time of when I did “There's Nothing Like Our Union” at Local 65 -- give them some names and facts, and then go to work. So he did it to “A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum.” The NEH people wanted the lyrics and they said they used to sing it over there, probably better than I do. [Singing]