This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
Hellraisers Journal, Saturday September 1, 1917
A Song to Honor the Striking Lumberjacks of #500
From The Northwest Worker of August 24, 1917:
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From the Industrial Worker of August 25, 1917:
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SOURCES & IMAGES
The Northwest Worker
“Spokesman For The Only Useful Class In Society
-The Working Class”
-Aug 24, 1917
https://www.newspapers.com/image/64454383
IWW Logger & Lumber Baron, Swenson, IW Aug 25, 1917
https://libcom.org/files/rebel-voices-2_0.pdf
http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/images/ufw/iww%20lumber%20strike%201917-230.jpg
See also:
Hellraisers Journal, Friday August 31, 1917
Spokane, Washington – Local Leaders of I. W. W. Held by Military
Idaho National Guard Invades Washington, Arrests IWW Lumber Strike Leaders at Spokane Union Hall
Big Red Songbook: 250+ IWW Songs!
-ed by Green, Roediger, Rosemont, Salerno
Charles H Kerr, 2007
(search: fifty thousand)
https://books.google.com/books?id=QaXECwAAQBAJ
Note: the 14th edition (Chicago Apr 1918) was the appearance of 50,000 Lumberjacks in the Little Red Songbook, but it was published in IWW and other radical papers in 1917. The song was published, unsigned, in Solidarity of August 4, 1917 (see Kornbluh’s Rebel Voice, page 267.)