Ralph Chaplin,
Songs of the Workers
(1919)
“ Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might Is there anything left for us but to organize and fight? For the Union makes us strong. It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade. ”
Ralph Chaplin,
Songs of the Workers
(1919)
“ Then let us sing, hail to the Spring— Hail to the Day we can strike to be free! Banner so red, high overhead, Hated and feared by the powers that be! In every land firmly we stand; Men of all nations who labor are we. ”
Ralph Chaplin,
Songs of the Workers
(1919)
“ We can bring to birth the new world from the ashes of the old, For the Union makes us strong. The present is distinctively an industrial epoch in world history. There can be no democracy in a world ruled by industrial despots. The I. W. W. stands for the only REAL democracy—Industrial Democracy. One worker on the job is worth a dozen in the jungles. ”
