n July 1937, when the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was only a shell of an organization, the One Big Union Monthly, its official organ, wrote: “One of the things the working-class movement is indebted to the IWW for is the teaching of the value of songs in the struggle for emancipation.” And to no other IWW songwriter is the working class more indebted than to Joe Hill, the Wobblies’ most famous and most prolific writer of working-class songs.
- from the Introduction by Philip S. Foner
n July 1937, when the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was only a shell of an organization, the One Big Union Monthly, its official organ, wrote: “One of the things the working-class movement is indebted to the IWW for is the teaching of the value of songs in the struggle for emancipation.” And to no other IWW songwriter is the working class more indebted than to Joe Hill, the Wobblies’ most famous and most prolific writer of working-class songs.
- from the Introduction by Philip S. Foner