 Even before this, Seeger and the other Almanacs found Hays difficult to work with and so erratic that they had asked him to leave the group.When the war ended, however, a group of songwriters gathered in Pete Seeger's in-laws' apartment in Greenwich Village and founded People's Songs, "organized to create, promote and distribute songs of labor and the American people".They elected Pete Seeger president and Lee Hays executive secretary.