and then there's liberals forming the democrats of texas to support ralph yarborough. the last pieces labor and since labor is our cosponsor i will talk about that. but in san antonio, labor had been active throughout this period, it remained a predominantly white movement. many local movements practiced forms of discrimination and african-american and mexican american workers did their best to break that discrimination down. sometimes with white allies. but by the 1950s, labor across the united states was eventually, had settled in at least as the story goes, and settled in to a more scrutinized labor relation. a along with big business as the story goes. case in texas pushes us in a different direction. what we see instead is a labor movement getting increasingly liberal through the 1950s. increasingly militant in terms of engaging other social movements and increasingly committed to civil rights and the main reason for that shift is the leadership of a guy named hs james brown, a plumber from san antonio who marries into the plumber's trade. he's originally from out