Stand By Your Union

DESCRIPTION: "My form is all bent and my hands are hard worn... Like a ship without a rudder, at random, I ran, All this was before the Union began." He's "only a workingman, dressed out in jeans," and they are going to cut his pay. But the Union gives him power
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1908 *May 14, 1908 [Denver] "Miner's Magazine," according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: mining hardtimes labor-movement
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, pp. 165-166, "Stand By Your Union" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Only a Miner (The Hard-Working Miner) [Laws G33]" (tune, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
File: LDC165

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