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Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday December 6, 1921
”On With Organization” is Slogan of Agricultural Workers’ Industrial Union
From the Industrial Pioneer of December 1921:
Splitting the Big Drive
By Wm. Dimmit
THE annual convention of Agricultural Workers’ Industrial Union No. 110 is over. According to all precedents that means that the drive is completed and that all will be dormant till the next harvest of wheat calls for men and more men.
This year has not been a customary year, however. The drive in all its earliest stages assumed new forms, and greater strength and economic power was developed than ever before. This year the convention has not ended the drive. On with the organization drive, was the slogan there and everywhere…..
No, the harvest drive is not over. From coast to coast rings the slogan today-ON WITH ORGANIZATION.
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SOURCE & IMAGE
Industrial Pioneer
(Chicago, Illinois)
-Dec 1921, pages 9-11
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/industrial-pioneer/Industrial%20Pioneer%20(December%201921).pdf
See also:
Hellraisers Journal, Monday September 11, 1916
Midwest Harvest Fields: A. W. O.’s 1000-Mile-Long Picket Line
Report from the Harvest Fields by W. T. Nef of the Agricultural Workers Organization
Tag: Agricultural Workers Organization
https://weneverforget.org/tag/agricultural-workers-organization/
Agricultural Workers Organization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Workers_Organization
History of the “400” A. W. O.
-by E. Workman [Walter T Nef], February 1939
One Big Union Club of New York, N. Y.
https://archive.org/details/HistoryOf400A.w.o.TheOneBigUnionIdeaInAction/AWO?view=theater#page/n0/mode/1up
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Kitten In The Wheat by Shorty
According to John Neuhouse (per Archie Green), “Kitten in the Wheat” was sung to “The Girl I Left Behind Me.”
THE KITTEN IN THE WHEAT
By SHORTY
A sab-cat and wobbly band,
A rebel song or two;
And then we’ll show the Parasites
Just what the cat can do.
And have you fix the where and when
That we must slave and die?
Here’s fifty thousand harvest men
Shall know the reason why!
The sab-cat purred and twitched her tail
As happy as could be;
They’d better not throw “wobs” in jail
And leave the kitten free
From early spring till late in fall
We toll that men may eat,
And “all for one and one for all,”
Sing wobblies in the wheat.
The sab-cat purred and twitched her tail
And winked the other way;
Our boys will never rot in jail,
Or else the Plutes will PAY.
You shall not keep them in the pen
Or send them forth to die,
Or fifty thousand union men
Shall know the reason why!