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Hellraisers Journal – Sunday June 18, 1911
“When Labor Calls Her Children Forth” by James Connolly
From The Coming Nation of June 17, 1911:
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SOURCE & IMAGES
Quote James Connolly, Banner of Socialism, The Harp, May 1908
https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1908/05/wageamer.htm
The Coming Nation
(Girard, Kansas)
-June 17, 1911, page 16
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/coming-nation/110617-comingnation-w040.pdf
https://www.newspapers.com/image/487741470
See also:
Songs of Freedom by Irish Authors
New York, JEC Donnelly, 1907
-cover
https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:290796#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-2340%2C-211%2C6792%2C4200
-contents
http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000113398/TOC#tabnav
-Intro by James Connolly: “Revolutionary Songs”
https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1907/xx/revsong.htm
“when labor calls her children forth” -google search
https://books.google.com/books?id=5ZhuAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA18&dq=%22when+labor+calls+her+children+forth%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiIyvCk06HxAhVPCc0KHb11CnQQ6AEwAHoECAIQAg#v=onepage
Songs of Freedom: The James Connolly Songbook
-ed by Mat Callahan
PM Press, Aug 1, 2013
https://books.google.com/books?id=5ZhuAAAAQBAJ
Review by Shaun Harking
https://socialistworker.org/2014/03/11/songs-for-a-socialist-future
James Connolly Archive
https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/index.htm
Tag: James Connolly
https://weneverforget.org/tag/james-connolly/
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When Labor Calls – James Connolly Songs Of Freedom Band
“When Labor Calls”
-by James Connolly, 1907
When Labor calls her children forth
A waiting world to win,
Earth’s noblest breed, true men of worth,
Her ranks shall enter in.
Then, comrades all, prepare that we
May hear that call anon,
And drive the hosts of tyranny
Like clouds before the dawn.
Then knowest long has Labor groaned,
A robbed and beaten thrall,
Whilst capital on high enthroned
Reigneth, lording over all.
But knowledge came and to the slave
His power at last revealed,
He stands erect, his heart is brave,
The tyrants doom is sealed.
We work and wait till womb of Time
Shall give fair Freedom birth,
To Labor’s host, that hope sublime,
Regenerates the earth.
And by that hope we toilers fired
To nobler deeds shall be
That we may guide, by it inspired,
Our class to Liberty.