Workers' Own Songbook

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

>The company began to sing, from the _Workers' Own Songbook_

This topic has already been treated, but I wanted to add on a bit:

1893 was a little early for the IWW but a lot of the same players and much of the same spirit carried forward from Knights of Labour etc to 1905 when the IWW was founded.

IWW is still around.  They just won 4th place in Labourstart's website of the year contest! 
http://www.labourstart.org/lwsoty/2007/results.shtml


http://www.iww.org/en/store/collectables
Their store has the little red songbook (most of the way down the linked page) but temp out of stock atm.

Their blurb:

Undoubtedly the most popular book in American labor history, the IWW's 'Little Red Song Book' has been a staple item on picket lines and at other workers gatherings for generations, and has gone through numerous editions. Reprinted here is the 19th Edition, originally issued in 1923, the year the IWW reached its peak membership. Of the 52 songs in this book, you'll find such classics as Joe Hill's 'John Golden And The Lawrence Strike', 'We Will Sing One Song', 'Scissor Bill', 'The Tramps' and others; T-Bone Slim's 'I'm Too Old To Be A Scab', 'Mysteries Of A Hobo's Life', 'I Wanna Free Miss Liberty and others; Ralph Chaplin's 'All Hell Can't Stop Us', 'Up From Your Knees', 'May Day Song' and more; and other songs by C G Allen, Richard Brazier, Pat Brennan, James Connell, Laura Payne Emerson and many others. Perfect for every occasion, from hobo jungle to urban living room -- $5.00

(Temporarily Out of Stock)

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http://www.laborheritage.org/giles.htm  pretty amazing idea for a school pageant of progressive social movements...