Rangers were coming off the back of their midweek Co-operative Insurance Cup success, although Walter Smith freshened up his side by introducing Steven Whittaker and John Fleck for Sasa Papac and Steven Naismith after their semi-final victory over Falkirk.
They are about the men and women active in the communist and labour movements in America during the late 1920s and 1930s, and on into the McCarthy aftermath Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers, Edmund Wilson, John L. Lewis (a union boss), the Reuther brothers, who brought General Motors to its knees, and others, many now forgotten.