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REBEL VOICES A IWW A n nthology The job you save may be your own! I.W.W. REBEL VOICES A IWW A n nthology E J l. K dItEd by oycE ornbluh I F t ntroductIon by rEd hompson “A s t W c ” F r hort rEAtIsE on obbly Artoons by rAnKlIn osEmont p d g rEFAcE by AnIEl ross For information on IWW activity today, write IWW Literature Department 2117 W Irving Park Road Chicago, IL 60618 www.iww.org Errata • Page 2, column 1: The hall used by the Haymarket anarchists moved (apparently more than once), and at the time of the IWW’s January 1905 conference it was at North Clark and Chestnut Streets. • Page 29, column 1: Kipling’s “Song of the Dead” was written to support Britain’s claims to rule the seas. • Page 86, column 2: In fact, very few if any IWWs and, indeed, few real hoboes, used these signs. • Page 135, column 2: Subsequent research has shown that Riebe’s “Mr. Block” comic strip inspired Joe Hill’s song. • Page 157, column 2: Joe Hill was cremated on November 27, 1915. • Page 326, column 2: “Christians at War” first appeared in the ninth (1916) edition of the Little Red Song Book. —Fred Thompson Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology © 2011 This edition © 2011 PM Press All rights reserved. No part of this book may be transmitted by any means without permission in writing from the publisher. ISBN: 978-1-60486-483-0 LCCN: 2011927961 Cover design by Josh MacPhee/justseeds.org PM Press PO Box 23912 Oakland, CA 94623 www.pmpress.org Published in conjunction with the Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company C.H. Kerr Company 1726 Jarvis Avenue Chicago, IL 60626 www.charleshkerr.com Printed on recycled paper by the Employee Owners of Thomson-Shore in Dexter, Michigan. www.thomsonshore.com Published in the EU by The Merlin Press Ltd. 6 Crane Street Chambers, Crane Street, Pontypool NP4 6ND, Wales www.merlinpress.co.uk ISBN: 978-0-85036-651-8 Contents ix Preface 44 The General Strike, by xiii Introduction William Haywood xvii Preface to the First Edition 51 Sabotage, by Ben H. Williams 52 Some Definitions: Sabotage- 1 One Big Union: The Philosophy Direct Action, by Frank Bohn of Industrial Unionism 53 Farmer Jones on Party 7 Manifesto Problems, by Bert Willard 11 Father Hagerty’s “Wheel of Fortune” 56 Saw Mill “Accidents,” by 12 Preamble (1905) The Wooden Shoe Kid 12 Preamble (1908) 57 The Rebel’s Toast, by J. Hill 13 Workingmen Unite, by E.S. Nelson 58 Hey! Polly, by Ralph Chaplin 13 The Banner of Labor 58 The One Big Strike, by G.G. Allen 14 Union Scabs, by Oscar Ameringer 59 That Sabo-Tabby Kitten, 15 The Red Flag, by Jim Connell by Ralph Chaplin 16 A.F. of L. Sympathy, by B.L. Weber 61 The Kitten in the Wheat, by Shorty 17 A Song for 1912 61 Testimony of J.T. (Red) Doran 17 Why Strikes Are Lost, by 63 Note on Sabotage: The Case of William Trautmann John Mahoney, by Agnes Inglis 24 Paint ‘Er Red, by Ralph Chaplin 24 One Big Industrial Union, 65 Riding the Rails: I.W.W. Itinerants by G.G. Allen 71 Hallelujah on the Bum 26 Dump the Bosses Off Your 72 Meet Me in the Jungles, Back, by John Brill Louie, by Richard Brazier 26 Solidarity Forever, by Ralph Chaplin 73 The Suckers Sadly Gather, 27 The Commonwealth of by Richard Brazier Toil, by Ralph Chaplin 73 My Wandering Boy 27 We Have Fed You All for 74 Out in the Bread-line a Thousand Years 74 The Flight into California, 29 Hymn of Hate, by Harry McClintock by W. Metcalf 30 Dan McGann, by Dublin Dan 75 A Voice from the Jungles, 32 The Portland Revolution, by Dublin Dan by Tyler Williams 76 Everywhere You Go 35 With Folded Arms: The 77 The Two Bums Tactics of Direct Action 77 The Dishwasher, by Jim Seymour 40 I.W.W. “Red Special” Overall 79 The Priest, by Ralph Chaplin Brigade, by James H. Walsh 79 The Floater, by Charles Ashleigh 43 Political Parties and the 84 The Migratory I.W.W., by I.W.W., by Vincent St. John J.H.B. the Rambler 84 The Mysteries of a Hobo’s 145 It’s a Long Way Down to the Soupline Life, by T-Bone Slim 145 The Rebel Girl 84 The Popular Wobbly, by T-Bone Slim 146 My Last Will 85 The Outcast’s Prayer 150 The Last Letters of Joe Hill 86 Modern Hieroglyphics 152 In Memoriam: Joe Hill 87 How He Made It Non-Union 153 Joe Hill’s Funeral, by Ralph Chaplin 87 Tightline Johnson Goes to Heaven, 155 Joe Hill, by Ralph Chaplin by William Akers (Ralph Winstead) 156 Circumstances Relating to the Disposal of a Portion of the Ashes of Joe Hill 94 Soapbox Militants: Free Speech Campaigns 1908-1916 158 Bread and Roses: The 1912 98 The Spokane Free Speech Lawrence Textile Strike Fight-1909, by John Panzner 164 The Industrial Democracy 100 The March on Fresno, by E.M. Clyde Arrives, Justus Ebert 102 The Mainspring of Action, 173 The Marseillaise by C.E. Payne 174 The Internationale, by Eugene Pottier 104 We’re Bound for San Diego 176 Strike, by Fred E. Beal 104 His Honor Gets His, by Jack Whyte 178 The Eight-Hour Song, 105 Everett, November Fifth, by Richard Brazier by Charles Ashleigh 179 Workers Shall the Masters Rule 107 The Voyage of the Verona, Us? By Frank Brechler by Walker C. Smith 179 Few of Them Are Scabbing It 112 Their Court and Our Class, 180 In the Good Old Picket Line by Walker C. Smith 180 John Golden and the Lawrence 120 Jails Didn’t Make Them Strike, by Joe Hill Weaken, by Jack Leonard 181 Statement of Camella Teoli 184 The Walker, by Arturo Giovannitti 127 Joe Hill: Wobbly Bard 187 The Cage, by Arturo Giovannitti 132 The Preacher and the Slave 190 Joseph Ettor’s Testimony to 133 Casey Jones-The Union Scab the Jury in the Salem Trial 134 Coffee An’ 193 Address of the Defendant 134 Where the Fraser River Flow Giovannitti to the Jury 135 Mr. Block 195 Bread and Roses, by James Oppenheim 136 Scissor Bill 136 The People 197 Paterson: 1913 137 We Will Sing One Song 204 Who Is the Leader? 138 What We Want 204 The Rip in the Silk Industry, 138 The Tramp by William D. Haywood 140 There Is Power in a Union 208 With Big Bill Haywood on the 140 Stung Right Battlefields of Labor, by Carlo Tresca 141 Nearer My Job to Thee 210 The Pageant of the Paterson Strike 141 How to Make Work for 212 The Pageant as a Form of Propaganda the Unemployed 214 The Truth About the Paterson 143 Workers of the World, Awaken! Strike, by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn 143 Ta-Ra-Ra Boom De-Ay 144 It’s a Long Way Down to the Soupline 227 Organizing the Harvest Stiffs 299 The Mine Guard, by Ralph Chaplin 235 I Went to the Country, by 299 Down in the Mines, by Pat Brennan August Walquist 299 The Iron Ore Miners 235 Class Communion, by Ed Jorda 302 The Miner, by “Scottie” 236 Bloody Wheatland, by 303 The Campbells Are Coming, by “Scottie” Mortimer Downing 303 Cornelius Kelly 238 Overalls and Snuff 304 The Copper Strike of ’17, 240 When You Wear That Button, by Joe Kennedy by Richard Brazier 305 Workers Unite, by “Scottie” 240 Harvest War Song, by Pat Brennan 306 To Frank Little, by Viola Gilbert Snell 241 Pesky Kritters, by Elmer Rumbaugh 306 When the Cock Crows, by 241 Down in Harvest Land, by Joe Foley Arturo Giovannitti 241 Along the Industrial Road to 309 Bisbee Freedom, by G.G. Allen 310 Light Exercise and Change, 243 Gathering the Grain, by E.F. Doree by Ralph Winstead 247 Harvest Land, by T-D and H. 247 An Ill Wind in the Palouse, by E.H.H. 316 Behind Bars: War and Prison 249 The Big Combine 325 Comrades, by Lawrence Tully 326 Blasphemy, by Covington Ami (Hall) 251 Lumberjacks: North and South 326 Onward Christian Soldiers 257 Who Said a Logger Lives? 327 Onward Christian Soldiers, by 259 Us the Hoboes and Dreamers, William Lloyd Garrison by Covington Hall 328 Christians at War, by John F. Kendrick 260 Timber Workers and Timber 328 The Red Feast, by Ralph Chaplin Wolves, by William D. Haywood 329 My Country, by O.E.B. 267 Fifty Thousand Lumberjacks 329 The Deadly Parallel 267 Fifty Thousand Lumberjacks (2nd version) 331 I Love My Flag 268 Bindleless Days, by Archie R. Sinclair 331 Yellow Legs and Pugs 268 The Lumber Jack’s Prayer, 332 Tulsa, November 9, 1917 by T-Bone Slim 334 On the Inside, by William D. Haywood 269 Tall Timber Tales 337 We Shall Eat—Bye and Bye 270 The Timber Beast’s Lament 338 Somebody Must, by Anise 270 The De-Horn’s Nose Is (Anna Louise Strong) Deepest Red, by J.B. 339 Remember, by Harrison George 271 Centralia Pictures, by Anise 339 Thoughts of a Dead-Living (Anna Louise Strong) Soul, by Manuel Rey 275 Wesley Everest, by Ralph Chaplin 340 Prison Nocturne, by Ralph Chaplin 275 Chin-Whiskers, Hay-Wire, and 341 Mourn Not Idle Dead, Pitchforks, by Ralph Winstead by Ralph Chaplin 282 Johnson, the Gypo, by Ralph Winstead 341 To My Little Son, by Ralph Chaplin 286 Why I Am a Member of the I.W.W. 342 What I Read in the Paper 343 The Men I Left at Leavenworth, 290 Down in the Mines by Pierce C. Wetter 296 The Kanawha Striker, by Ralph Chaplin 348 Our Defense, by Vera Moller 299 When the Leaves Come 350 We Made Good Wobs Out Out, by Ralph Chaplin There, by Vera Moller 351 An I.W.W. Miscellany: 1924–1964 383 It Happened One Night, 357 Sacco and Vanzetti, by Jim Seymour by Matilda Robbins 359 A Jest, by Lisa 384 Nothing Down, by John Forbes 360 One of Ours, by Matilda 384 The Art of Making a Decent Robbins (Rabinowitz) Revolution, by Fred Thompson 361 The I.W.W. on a Full-Rigged 388 Parable of the Water Pump, by Ship, by Harry Clayton Chazzdor (Charles Doehrer) 364 Hold Fast: The Cry of the 392 Where Are the Voices? by Carlos Cortez Striking Miners 393 Digging the Squares at Jack London 365 Education, by Clifford B. Ellis Square, by Carlos Cortez 369 Depression Hits Robinson Crusoe’s 395 Hiroshima, by Lin Fisher Island, by Mrs. Mary Atterbury 397 Today’s Dream, Tomorrow’s 370 T-Bone Slim Discusses the Big Potato Reality, by J.F. McDaniels 372 Ballad of Big Boss Briggs, by a Briggs Striker 399 Notes 373 Boom Went the Boom, by W.O. Blee 405 Language of the Migratory Worker 374 Auto Slaves, by Louis Burcar 409 Selected Bibliography (1905-1963) 374 The Politician Is Not My 421 Digging IWW History: Shepherd, by Covington Hall Books Published Since 1963, 375 Our Line’s Been Changed Again by Fred Thompson 376 Nuthouse News 425 A Short Treatise on Wobbly 378 Reminiscences of Spain, Cartoons, by Franklin Rosemont by Raymond Galstad 445 Index 382 Paccio Hymn to the Nude Eel Preface | ix Preface Y ou hold in your hands the most and the neoliberal economic system by which important book ever written about the they impose their will are causing massive Industrial Workers of the World. hardship to working people around the world The IWW is an extraordinary and but also massive resistance. Egypt and Tunisia transformative labor union with a core have seen longtime dictators ousted through belief that workers themselves are in the popular pressure and working-class power. best position to improve their own jobs, run Powerful movements against antiworker their own organization, and ultimately bring austerity measures are erupting in Europe. genuine democracy into the workplace. Rebel Social movements in Latin America, Africa, Voices could not be more compatible with this and Asia are challenging centuries-old belief in the power of everyday workers to oppression. make dramatic change: it features IWW members and close allies speaking in their In Madison, Wisconsin, a law designed to own voices about their experiences as workers, break public-sector unions sparked a labor unionists, and, yes, as revolutionaries. upsurge of a scope unseen for decades in No academic study has touched the the United States. For the first time in the brilliance of Rebel Voices and none ever will. nation’s recent memory, thousands of workers Through these essays, poems, speeches, in Madison were seriously discussing a songs, and illustrations, I think you will come general strike, a major subject in Rebel Voices, to appreciate what makes the IWW one of not as a historical relic but as a practical, the world’s truly great labor unions with a powerful tool to make real change at work profound vision and strategy to achieve a just and in society; on the ground educating world. The insight, wisdom, and breathtaking people about the nature and functioning solidarity found on these pages staggers the of a general strike were members of the heart and the intellect just as powerfully as Industrial Workers of the World (of course). when they were written, in some cases over Madison was a powerful reminder that the one hundred years ago. If you read just one fighting spirit and sense of self-worth of the book on the IWW, let this be the one. American worker are alive and well despite In these early years of the twenty-first decades of unrelenting attacks on wages, century, the rise of the large global corporations working conditions, and worker organization.
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