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and the twenty-six again on the table -- also saying that if the strike were not ended immediately they would move to replace the strikers and would do so through ads in the papers. That final settlement was an all-night session that was agreed to by Turner and King, the initial document. Turner then called a meeting at Madison Square Garden, rented Madison Square Garden to be prepared to have this victory thing, and at the very last moment --

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The workers had been invited to the meeting. The meeting had been called with the announcement on her hotline and in the press that the workers were going to receive, she was going to present, the terms of managements' offer. While the meeting was going on, last minute efforts were being made to go over the document between Paterson and King and Abelow, and they had all signed on. Paterson was then to rush to the platform with the document, with King's approval, and to present it to Doris so that she could then read the terms. The presidents of the hospitals were holed up in a hotel, awaiting word that the thing was going to be settled, because everyone was confident it was going to be settled. When it was given to Turner on the platform she looked at it and tore it up, and said to somebody, “The jerks, they're trying to bust the union.” To this day nobody knows what she was talking about, except in her mind she had decided that she wasn't prepared to end the strike.

She went ahead with the meeting, and did not say anything about what the offers were, except the members were exhorted, “We're going to go back together. They want to bust the union, they want to divide us. We're going to go back together.” That's what the members voted on. They never voted on an offer. They never knew what was going on. People who had come in with the idea -- there was a big hooplah which was fed from her supporters. You know, “Doris,” the chants and that stuff. And she had Frank Barbero and all the others on the platform exhorting the membership, how “United we stand and divided we fall,” that kind of stuff. Workers left the hall knowing that there was no settlement. Oh! The idea was that you were going to vote! Nothing ever happened. The management, the presidents of hospitals were now furious. They said “Okay, the ad goes in.” It said that “If the strike is not ended by Thursday, we will replace the strikers.”

By that time we know 17,000 workers were working in hospital jobs, many of them in other struck hospitals than their own, because the managements were able to check on their social security numbers. But