Rebel Voices

Description

Welcoming women, Blacks, and immigrants long before most other unions, the Wobblies from the start were labor’s outstanding pioneers and innovators, unionizing hundreds of thousands of workers previously regarded as “unorganizable.” Wobblies organized the first sit-down strike (at General Electric, Schenectady, 1906), the first major auto strike (6,000 Studebaker workers, Detroit, 1911), the first strike to shut down all three coalfields in Colorado (1927), and the first “no-fare” transit-workers’ job-action (Cleveland, 1944). With their imaginative, colorful, and world-famous strikes and free-speech fights, the IWW wrote many of the brightest pages in the annals of working class emancipation.

Wobblies also made immense and invaluable contributions to workers’ culture. All but a few of America’s most popular labor songs are Wobbly songs. IWW cartoons have long been recognized as labor’s finest and funniest.

The impact of the IWW has reverberated far beyond the ranks of organized labor. An important influence on the 1960s New Left, the Wobbly theory and practice of direct action, solidarity, and “class-war” humor have inspired several generations of civil rights and antiwar activists, and are a major source of ideas and inspiration for today’s radicals. Indeed, virtually every movement seeking to “make this planet a good place to live” (to quote an old Wobbly slogan), has drawn on the IWW’s incomparable experience.

Originally published in 1964 and long out of print, Rebel Voices remains by far the biggest and best source on IWW history, fiction, songs, art, and lore. This new edition includes 40 pages of additional material from the 1998 Charles H. Kerr edition from Fred Thompson and Franklin Rosemont, and a new preface by Wobbly organizer Daniel Gross.

Sujets

• Industrial history
• Socialism
• Trade union
• Anarchism
• Culture

Informations

• Publié par: PM Press
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781604868449
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

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
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Contents
Preface
Introduction
Preface to the First Edition
One Big Union: The Philosophy of Industrial Unionism
Manifesto
Father Hagerty’s "Wheel of Fortune"
Preamble (1905)
Preamble (1908)
Workingmen Unite, by E.S. Nelson
The Banner of Labor
Union Scabs, by Oscar Ameringer
The Red Flag, by Jim Connell
A.F. of L. Sympathy, by B.L. Weber
A Song for 1912
Why Strikes Are Lost, by William Trautmann
Paint ‘Er Red, by Ralph Chaplin
One Big Industrial Union, by G.G. Allen
Dump the Bosses Off Your Back, by John Brill
Solidarity Forever, by Ralph Chaplin
The Commonwealth of Toil, by Ralph Chaplin
We Have Fed You All for a Thousand Years
Hymn of Hate, by Harry McClintock
Dan McGann, by Dublin Dan
The Portland Revolution, by Dublin Dan
With Folded Arms: The Tactics of Direct Action
I.W.W. "Red Special" Overall Brigade, by James H. Walsh
Political Parties and the I.W.W., by Vincent St. John
The General Strike, by William Haywood
Sabotage, by Ben H. Williams
Some Definitions: Sabotage-Direct Action, by Frank Bohn
Farmer Jones on Party Problems, by Bert Willard
Saw Mill "Accidents," by The Wooden Shoe Kid
The Rebel’s Toast, by J. Hill
Hey! Polly, by Ralph Chaplin
The One Big Strike, by G.G. Allen
That Sabo-Tabby Kitten, by Ralph Chaplin
The Kitten in the Wheat, by Shorty
Testimony of J.T. (Red) Doran
Note on Sabotage: The Case of John Mahoney, by Agnes Inglis
Riding the Rails: I.W.W. Itinerants
Hallelujah on the Bum
Meet Me in the Jungles, Louie, by Richard Brazier
The Suckers Sadly Gather, by Richard Brazier
My Wandering Boy
Out in the Bread-line
The Flight into California, by W. Metcalf
A Voice from the Jungles, by Tyler Williams
Everywhere You Go
The Two Bums
The Dishwasher, by Jim Seymour
The Priest, by Ralph Chaplin
The Floater, by Charles Ashleigh
The Migratory I.W.W., by J.H.B. the Rambler
The Mysteries of a Hobo’s Life, by T-Bone Slim
The Popular Wobbly, by T-Bone Slim
The Outcast’s Prayer
Modern Hieroglyphics
How He Made It Non-Union
Tightline Johnson Goes to Heaven, by William Akers (Ralph Winstead)
Soapbox Militants: Free Speech Campaigns 1908–1916
The Spokane Free Speech Fight-1909, by John Panzner
The March on Fresno, by E.M. Clyde
The Mainspring of Action, by C.E. Payne
We’re Bound for San Diego
His Honor Gets His, by Jack Whyte
Everett, November Fifth, by Charles Ashleigh
The Voyage of the Verona, by Walker C. Smith
Their Court and Our Class, by Walker C. Smith
Jails Didn’t Make Them Weaken, by Jack Leonard
Joe Hill: Wobbly Bard
The Preacher and the Slave
Casey Jones-The Union Scab
Coffee An’
Where the Fraser River Flow
Mr. Block
Scissor Bill
The People
We Will Sing One Song
What We Want
The Tramp
There Is Power in a Union
Stung Right
Nearer My Job to Thee
How to Make Work for the Unemployed
Workers of the World, Awaken!
Ta-Ra-Ra Boom De-Ay
It’s a Long Way Down to the Soupline
It’s a Long Way Down to the Soupline
The Rebel Girl
My Last Will
The Last Letters of Joe Hill
In Memoriam: Joe Hill
Joe Hill’s Funeral, by Ralph Chaplin
Joe Hill, by Ralph Chaplin
Circumstances Relating to the Disposal of a Portion of the Ashes of Joe Hill
Bread and Roses: The 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike
The Industrial Democracy Arrives, Justus Ebert
The Marseillaise
The Internationale, by Eugene Pottier
Strike, by Fred E. Beal
The Eight-Hour Song, by Richard Brazier
Workers Shall the Masters Rule Us? By Frank Brechler
Few of Them Are Scabbing It
In the Good Old Picket Line
John Golden and the Lawrence Strike, by Joe Hill
Statement of Camella Teoli
The Walker, by Arturo Giovannitti
The Cage, by Arturo Giovannitti
Joseph Ettor’s Testimony to the Jury in the Salem Trial
Address of the Defendant Giovannitti to the Jury
Bread and Roses, by James Oppenheim
Paterson: 1913
Who Is the Leader?
The Rip in the Silk Industry, by William D. Haywood
With Big Bill Haywood on the Battlefields of Labor, by Carlo Tresca
The Pageant of the Paterson Strike
The Pageant as a Form of Propaganda
The Truth About the Paterson Strike, by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Organizing the Harvest Stiffs
I Went to the Country, by August Walquist
Class Communion, by Ed Jorda
Bloody Wheatland, by Mortimer Downing
Overalls and Snuff
When You Wear That Button, by Richard Brazier
Harvest War Song, by Pat Brennan
Pesky Kritters, by Elmer Rumbaugh
Down in Harvest Land, by Joe Foley
Along the Industrial Road to Freedom, by G.G. Allen
Gathering the Grain, by E.F. Doree
Harvest Land, by T-D and H.
An Ill Wind in the Palouse, by E.H.H.
The Big Combine
Lumberjacks: North and South
Who Said a Logger Lives?
Us the Hoboes and Dreamers, by Covington Hall
Timber Workers and Timber Wolves, by William D. Haywood
Fifty Thousand Lumberjacks
Fifty Thousand Lumberjacks (2 nd version)
Bindleless Days, by Archie R. Sinclair
The Lumber Jack’s Prayer, by T-Bone Slim
Tall Timber Tales
The Timber Beast’s Lament
The De-Horn’s Nose Is Deepest Red, by J.B.
Centralia Pictures, by Anise (Anna Louise Strong)
Wesley Everest, by Ralph Chaplin
Chin-Whiskers, Hay-Wire, and Pitchforks, by Ralph Winstead
Johnson, the Gypo, by Ralph Winstead
Why I Am a Member of the I.W.W.
Down in the Mines
The Kanawha Striker, by Ralph Chaplin
When the Leaves Come Out, by Ralph Chaplin
The Mine Guard, by Ralph Chaplin
Down in the Mines, by Pat Brennan
The Iron Ore Miners
The Miner, by "Scottie"
The Campbells Are Coming, by "Scottie"
Cornelius Kelly
The Copper Strike of ’17, by Joe Kennedy
Workers Unite, by "Scottie"
To Frank Little, by Viola Gilbert Snell
When the Cock Crows, by Arturo Giovannitti
Bisbee
Light Exercise and Change, by Ralph Winstead
Behind Bars: War and Prison
Comrades, by Lawrence Tully
Blasphemy, by Covington Ami (Hall)
Onward Christian Soldiers
Onward Christian Soldiers, by William Lloyd Garrison
Christians at War, by John F. Kendrick
The Red Feast, by Ralph Chaplin
My Country, by O.E.B.
The Deadly Parallel
I Love My Flag
Yellow Legs and Pugs
Tulsa, November 9, 1917
On the Inside, by William D. Haywood
We Shall Eat Bye and Bye
Somebody Must, by Anise (Anna Louise Strong)
Remember, by Harrison George
Thoughts of a Dead-Living Soul, by Manuel Rey
Prison Nocturne, by Ralph Chaplin
Mourn Not Idle Dead, by Ralph Chaplin
To My Little Son, by Ralph Chaplin
What I Read in the Paper
The Men I Left at Leavenworth, by Pierce C. Wetter
Our Defense, by Vera Moller
We Made Good Wobs Out There, by Vera Moller
An I.W.W. Miscellany: 1924–1964
Sacco and Vanzetti, by Jim Seymour
A Jest, by Lisa
One of Ours, by Matilda Robbins (Rabinowitz)
The I.W.W. on a Full-Rigged Ship, by Harry Clayton
Hold Fast: The Cry of the Striking Miners
Education, by Clifford B. Ellis
Depression Hits Robinson Crusoe’s Island, by Mrs. Mary Atterbury
T-Bone Slim Discusses the Big Potato
Ballad of Big Boss Briggs, by a Briggs Striker
Boom Went the Boom, by W.O. Blee
Auto Slaves, by Louis Burcar
The Politician Is Not My Shepherd, by Covington Hall
Our Line’s Been Chang