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Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday October 11, 1910
“We have fed you all for thousand years, and you hail us still unfed…”
From the Spokane Industrial Worker of October 8, 1910:
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SOURCE & IMAGE
Industrial Worker
(Spokane, Washington)
– Oct 8, 1910
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/industrialworker/iw/v2n29-w81-oct-08-1910-IW.pdf
See also:
Tag: We Have Fed You All For A Thousand Years
https://weneverforget.org/tag/we-have-fed-you-all-for-a-thousand-years/
As published in/by:
–The Progressive Woman of March 1910, with sheet music:
https://weneverforget.org/hellraisers-journal-from-the-progressive-woman-the-capitalist-class-by-rudyard-kipling-with-music-by-franz-beidel/
–International Socialist Review of May 1917
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=SVRIAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA647
-IWW, “Copyrighted 1918 Wm. D. Haywood”
Sheet Music for “We Have Fed You all For a Thousand Years”
https://weneverforget.org/hellraisers-journal-from-the-iww-prison-song-series-we-have-fed-you-all-for-a-thousands-years/
-IWW, Little Red Songbook of 1919
Songs of the Workers
On the Road, in the Jungles, and in the Shops
Industrial Workers of the World, 1919
(search: “we have fed you all”)
https://books.google.com/books?id=P2CFEnsGdxcC
For more information, see:
Big Red Songbook: 250+ IWW Songs!
-ed by Archie Green, David Roediger, Franklin Rosemont, Salvatore Salerno
PM Press, Feb 19, 2016
(search: “we have fed you all”)
Note: songs are listed by first appearance in Little Red Songbook. This song is #122 with first appearance: 14th Edition of April 1918.
https://books.google.com/books?id=QaXECwAAQBAJ
Rebel Voices
An IWW Anthology
-ed by Joyce L. Kornbluh
Chapter 11- Behind Bars: War and Prison
PM Press, Sep 1, 2011
(search: “cry of toil”) -pages 27-29
https://books.google.com/books?id=n2ATBwAAQBAJ
Rebel Voices can be read online:
https://libcom.org/history/rebel-voices-iww-anthology
Kornbluh states:
Titled “The Cry of Toil,” this poem first appeared in the I.W.W. press in the Industrial Union bulletin (April 18, 1908). It was credited to Rudyard Kipling. following that date it was reprinted many times in I.W.W. periodicals, titled “We Have Fed You All for a Thousand Years,” and either signed “anonymous” or “by an unknown proletarian.” About 1916 the verses were set to music by Rudolph von Liebich of the Chicago General Recruiting Union, and the sheet music was advertised in I.W.W. newspapers….
IUB of April 18, 1908, page 2:
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/industrialworker/iub/v2n08-apr-18-1908-iub.pdf
Search at Newspapers.com gave 100 returns from 1895-2006
-first, by date, was from Mar 24, 1895 edition of Sunday News (Wilkes-Barre, PA). Pub’d as poem: “The Cry of Labor” by Rudyard Kipling.
https://www.newspapers.com/search/#query=%22we+have+fed+you+all%22+%22thousand+years%22
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Jack Herranen and the Lower 9th Ward –
“We have fed you all for a thousand years…”