100 YEARS AGO TODAY: Wobbly Ralph Chaplin, in Chicago for a demonstration against hunger, completes the writing of the labor anthem “Solidarity Forever. He’d begun writing it in 1914 during a miners’ strike in Huntington, W.Va. The first verse: When the unions inspiration through the workers blood shall run, There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun; Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one, But the union makes us strong. One of our favorite versions of the song comes from honorary NATCA member Tom Morello. https://youtube/watch?v=EEeh8-IUC0c
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 23:00:00 +0000
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