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The Original Talking Union & Other Union Songs, with the Almanac Singers, Pete Seeger & Chorus. Side 2 is a reissue of Talking Union, a collection of three 78 rpm discs originally released by Keynote in 1941 and notable as the first album…

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Songs of Struggle & Protest: 1930-1950, sung by Pete Seeger. Features “Step by Step,” a musical setting of the preamble to the constitution of a 19th -century mineworkers’ union; songs from the coalfield wars of 1930s Harlan County, Ky.; and…

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“Home-made songs of protest and affirmation.” Published in 1948 by People’s Songs, an organization founded in the wake of World War II by Pete Seeger, Alan Lomax, and others “to create, promote, and distribute songs of labor and the American people."…

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"The Rebel Girl" is a song written by Joe Hill in 1911. The song was published in the Little Red Songbook of the Industrial Workers of the World, and as sheet music in 1915. Hill wrote the song for IWW orator Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.

The song was…

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The cover to the IWW song sheet version of Joe Hill's "Workers of the World Awaken" (10 1/2 x 13 1/2, 1918).
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