Copper Strike of '17, The

DESCRIPTION: "On the twelfth of June we called a strike, Which filled the miners with delight." Several mines join in. The owners bring in 600 gunmen. But the workers will fight, declaring, "The rustling card [a sort of right to work] has gone to stay"
AUTHOR: Words: Joe Kennedy (source: Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
EARLIEST DATE: c. 1918 (New Songs for the Butte Mining Camp, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: mining hardtimes labor-movement strike
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, p. 167, "The Copper Strike of '17" (1 text)
File: LDC167

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