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had all the ironing done by hand. There was a lot of washing. They stayed in these terrible steamy rooms for hours and hours. They had to work terribly late on Fridays because all the laundry had to be delivered on Saturday, come what may. Their hours were very bad and their wages were terrific.

They had a great time getting them organized because they were highly individualistic. They were utterly unaware of the fact that there were other laundry workers in the world. It was very hard to organize this group of isolated people. They worked half a dozen in one place, eight or ten in another, two in another. Among other things that were done in that period was to keep them organized and to keep them out after they had gone on strike. The first thing they did in that laundry workers organization was to pull a strike. It attracted membership right away. It seemed to me that the bakery workers, who were German men, helped them out on that too. I don't know why but there was apparently some kind of interest there.

Somebody bought a whole tier of boxes in the Hippodrome Theatre and gave them to those of us who were interested in the laundry workers to utilize as something for the laundry workers to do out on strike. It was a variety show or vaudeville, but it was super deluxe. It was a magnificent entertainment, really lovely. I remember one occasion when