 He brought in his old friend Waldemar Hille to be music editor of the People's Songs "Bulletin" and solicited songs and stories from Zilphia Horton, who sent in her new favorite, "We Shall Overcome".In its first year every issue of the People's Songs "Bulletin" featured a new song by Hays.One, written with Walter Lowenfels after a disastrous accident in a coal mine contained this verse