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Yes, pre-feminism. This is to the tune of the MTA. Joe Jackson was the head of the civil rights forces in Westchester. Ossie and Leon Davis. Godoff, Nicholas, and Black. Phil Sipser was the attorney. Harry Weinstock, now dead, our attorney, also, the Richardsons and Turners operating on all burners. I remember Henry stood on a chair. There was a big party in Bronxville at the home of the Turners, and Henry stood up on a chair and was singing this thing. There was like hundreds of people there. So you wanted you know? Let's see if there are any pictures in here. This is one of the pictures; this is our own picture. Nice, nice picture. Here they are.

Right. They look pretty rough-ribbed to me.

Really non-kosher.

My question is what -- I think what we need to do really is to sort of backtrack a little bit and talk about the internal development of the union at that time to the extent that you can. Why don't we start with that? I guess I'm thinking at this point about what is the character of the internal organization and the structure, the activities, setting aside the cultural stuff which we can get to later.

The structure of the organization is the delegate assembly and chapters of individual hospitals and stewards. Now, we have a two- front kind of thing here. The major emphasis in this period is organizing, the major emphasis. Even though we've won contracts and are now beginning to service the contracts, the major emphasis, the total emphasis is organizing, to sign up workers, because you're in a very, very good period. So organizers are working with committees from Mt. Sinai to help organize a hospital near them, that kind of thing. Rank and file committees, people volunteering on their days off, all this. Then you're trying to organize the Guild as well. So while you're servicing, the major emphasis is organization, to build the union, and to use all the other ancillary things for the mood and the morale, so that when you go to a picket line, you're always sure to bring along someone who can lead singing. We've always got have the 1199 hats; you've got to see the 1199 hats all the time. As someone said, it's the most valuable piece of literature ever issued by a union -- the blue and white hat. It came up in many, many, many places, more to come in future years. Boat rides, the theater programs, lectures. It's keeping people coming to the union who are active on every front. It's a lively kind of thing, keeping your staff excited and keeping your rank and file activists excited, and at the same time, getting prestige all over the place for what you're doing, and the work of angels, that kind of thing. See, Bronxville was a very big story, even though it was