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r | POPEYE = 8 Popeye soon began calling himself the Minister of Vrisona, and grabbing all | the speaking engagements. Pat: ‘tle would make speaking committments for himself and not include anyone else in them except me. I felt that he included me be- cause I was a woman and I was no threat to him as far as the image he was trying to create as far as Minister of Prisons, and all that bullshit, At the time, it wes easy to get money out of crowde; Popeye would go out a lot, and not come back with anything. A lot of times there was a hundred bucks in there... when I went with him." Popeye was the only one involved in Union activities full- time; everybody else had to work to survive. "That's what no one knew, how he could afford it." | Sally: “Once he returned from an engagement with a 3100 check and said that : half of it had to go to another brother who apoke. Later, one of the organ- izers told un how happy he had been that they were able to give all of the | speakers $100, We started to funnel known amounts of money through Popeye and it always came up short when he turned it in. We were really upset over the expensive long-distance phone bills he was running 5 up. God! I'd just have a dollar or so and this was an outrageous extravagence for a little fledgling organization. We said he conldntt do that anymore, and then, he started making phone calls. I'd just hang him up. He'd get mad and threaten to hit me, but he never did. He'd pull back his hand like he was going to do it, but he never did. He'd go right up to the edge. | He used to speak to me in what I considered a degrading, sexist fashion. He used to tell me: 'Bitch, shut up!’ He used to tell the men around me: ‘Make that womnn be quiet!' He used to treat me in a very authoritarian fashion 1 0 ee OE an: bec geet Tg wa Sb ae