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Eddy Kay, who ran for treasurer, Dennis Rivera, who ran for executive vice-president, and Marshall Garcia, who ran for executive vice- president.

And they had all been executive board members?

They had been on staff! They had been organizers. Eddy had the highest position. Eddy was a vice-president of the union. The others were organizers, elected organizers. Everybody else was a rank and filer. There you had to be careful that you gave representation not only to race, etcetera, but to hospital and guild and different large institutions in different areas, so that it was as balanced ticket as you could get in that kind of framework. You know, you're not running a major convention with alot of power and influence.

Also, the only people who were working full time on the campaign, there were no full-timers. Eddy Kay was working -- to be able to run for office you have to be a member. So Eddy Kay was working one or two days a week at Albert Einstein. Marshall Garcia was working in one institution. Dennis Rivera first went to work at Beth Israel as a messenger, because that would permit him to move around, and passed the sixty day trial period. After the trial period Turner went to the administration, and the administration -- even though it's a violation, and it was protested, etcetera, but it didn't change it -- he was fired, to try to keep him out of eligibility for office. But fortunately the DOL ruled that he was eligible. But he was also working out in United Presbyterian one or two days a week, so that there were no full-time people. The only thing close to full-time, you would say, are people who are not on the slate. They were Bob and myself. And I can say this now, since we've put an embargo on it, Bob played a key role.

There was an executive board that met every week, regularly, on decisions. In other words, decisions were made quite democratically. As a matter of fact it created problems, because before anything could be done it had to be checked with many people.

How big was the executive board?

First of all there was a Wednesday night meeting at the S.O.V. headquarters. There were fifty or sixty people during the campaign who met every Wednesday night to go over everything. Things had to be approved by them before anything could happen. Yet there was a smaller group of about a dozen people who worked, and then there was a group inside that would have to check with that group of twelve. That would be Bob, Eddy Kay, Dennis, myself, Georgiana. Then there