CHORUS Casey Jones kept his junk pile running; For being good and faithful on the S. P. line. The Workers said to Casey: "Won't you help us win this strike?" But Casey said: "Let me alone, you'd better take a hike." Then some one put a bunch of railroad ties across the track, And Casey hit the river with an awful crack. Casey Jones hit the river bottom; Casey Jones broke his blooming spine, He took a trip to heaven on the S. P. line. When Casey Jones got up to heaven to the Pearly Gate He said: "I'm Casey Jones, the guy that pulled the S. P. freight." "You're just the man," said Peter; "our musicians went on strike; You can get a job a-scabbing any time you like." Casey Jones got a job in heaven; Casey Jones was doing mighty fine; Casey Jones went scabbing on the angels, The angels got together, and they said it wasn't fair, Casey Jones went to Hell a-flying. "Casey Jones," the Devil said, "Oh, fine; That's what you get for scabbing on the S. P. line. THE PREACHER AND THE SLAVE BY JOE HILL (Tune: "Sweet Bye and Bye") Long-haired preachers come out every night, Try to tell you what's wrong and what's right; But when asked how 'bout something to eat They will answer with voices so sweet: CHORUS You will eat, bye and bye, In that glorious land above the sky; You'll get pie in the sky when you die. And the Starvation army they play, And they sing and they clap and they pray. Till they get all your coin on the drum, Then they'll tell you when you're on the bum: Chorus. Holy Rollers and Jumpers come out, And they holler, they jump and they shout. If you fight hard for children and wife- LAST CHORUS You will eat, bye and bye, When you've learned how to cook and to fry Chop some wood, 'twill do you good, And you'll eat in the sweet bye and bye. THE RED FLAG BY JAMES CONNELL The workers' flag is deepest red, It shrouded oft our martyred dead; And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold CHORUS: Then raise the scarlet standard high; Look 'round, the Frenchman loves its blaze, It waved above our infant might It suits today the meek and base, With heads uncovered, swear we all, WHAT WE WANT BY JOE HILL (Tune: "Rainbow ") We want all the workers in the world to organize Into a great big union grand And when we all united stand The world for workers we'll demand. If the working class could only see and realize Then the exploiting master class It would soon fade away. CHORUS Come all ye toilers that work for wages, Come from every land, Join the fighting band, In one union grand. Then for the workers we'll make upon this earth a paradise When the slaves get wise and organize. We want the sailor and the tailor and the lumberjacks, And all the cooks and laundry girls; We want the guy that dives for pearls, The pretty maid that's making curls, And the baker and staker and the chimneysweep; We want the man that slinging hash, The child that works for little cash In one union grand. We want the tinner and the skinner and the chambermaid, We want the man that spikes on soles, We want the man that digging holes, We want the man that's climbing poles, And the trucker and the mucker and the hired man, And all the factory girls and clerks Yes, we want every one that works, APPENDIX X COPIES OF STATE "CRIMINAL SYNDICALISM" STATUTES MINNESOTA CHAPTER 215-S. F. No. 9421 An act defining criminal syndicalism, prohibiting the advocacy thereof and the advocacy of crime, sabotage, violence, or other unlawful methods of terrorism as a means of accomplishing industrial or political ends, and assemblage for the purpose of such advocacy; declaring it unlawful to permit the use of any place, building or rooms for such assemblage in certain cases; and providing penalties for violations of the provisions thereof. BE IT ENACTED BY THE Legislature of THE STATE OF MIN NESOTA: SECTION I. Criminal syndicalism defined. - Criminal syndicalism is hereby defined as the doctrine which advocates crime, sabotage (this word as used in this bill meaning malicious damage or injury to the property of an employer by an employe), violence or other unlawful methods of terrorism as a means of accomplishing industrial or political ends. The advocacy of such doctrine, whether by word of mouth or writing is a felony punishable as in this act otherwise provided. SEC. 2. Teaching or advocating syndicalism declared a felony. Any person who by word of mouth or writing, advocates or teaches the duty, necessity or propriety of crime, sabotage, violence or other unlawful methods of terrorism as a means 1 Session Laws of Minnesota for 1917, pp. 311-312. |