Among those who joined the Guild was one of Walt's highest-ranking animators, Art Babbitt. Babbitt, who was known for developing the infamous character Goofy, had a very strong sense of justice. Despite being higher on the totem pole than others, he felt that the pay structure was unfair and very disorganized. Art was a generous man; so gregarious that he would often pay his assistant out of his own pockets when Walt would refuse to give him a raise.5 He had always sympathized with the omegas of the wolf pack that was the Disney studio, but what really convinced Art to join the SCG was a day he witnessed a female cel painter faint of malnutrition, because she was saving her lunch money to feed her family and not herself. This didn’t mean Art
