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right over the border of the Bronx. You know where it is. We organized the service workers, and we asked for an election, and the hospital said no. Before you know it, we're on strike, and we strike there endlessly and over the same issues. The wages are low. And so we put into activity everything we got -- King, statements, Jim Farmer, all the civil rights people. Every Saturday, particularly on Saturday, we bring buses up there and we have a Bronx corps and New Rochelle corps and the NAACP with Ossie and Ruby, who live near there, and we have mass demonstrations in front of the hospitals. There are arrests and all that stuff. The thing is going on for a long, long time. That, I think, lasted more than sixty days, that strike. There were a lot of arrests. But we're raising the question, we're getting very good press. A worker in the Bronx, in Montefiore Hospital, ten minutes away, has the right. The worker right across doesn't. Why not? Why shouldn't the law become statewide? And we're beginning to use the strike as a basis for a statewide law.

When the strike settles with sort of an in-between kind of settlement, we get the law passed. The bill is introduced in the legislature and it rolls through based upon -- of course, we got editorials, again the whole thing.

We made the front page of the Times on a Sunday, and it was a huge demonstration and, -- how shall I say it? -- we knew that the police were there. We knew that the press was there. We knew everybody was there. Johnny Black and Henry Nicholas were the organizers in Bronxville. Johnny Black, who has been beaten up on the head by cops more times than a beanball pitcher, he designed the strategy that a group of people would make a move, would run to one of the doors of the hospital to attract the police there, and then another group would go to another door and sit down there and refuse to move. That group went there, and the cops moved in with the clubs. We told the Times reporter -- I remember John Stevens, he was an elderly guy -- [telephone interruption] I told John what we were going to do, that he should have his photographer ready, and he was ready, and the Time pictures, which then were given to me in eleven-by-fourteen, ended up on the front page of the Times with the beatings. Boy, that really started the thing. Then everybody knew you had to get that strike settled because there was a danger now. The black thing was operating, because these were black people on the floor there.

The other interesting thing about Bronxville, there was a very interesting human interest thing there. In trying to win support, we had a citizens' committee in Bronxville and in that area. Now, Bronxville is a wealthy suburb. It's really a very, very, very