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Hellraisers Journal – Wednesday October 8, 1913
“Colorado Strike Song”-Sung to the Tune of “The Battle Cry of Freedom.”
From the Denver United Labor Bulletin of September 27, 1913:
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SOURCE & IMAGES
United Labor Bulletin
(Denver, Colorado)
-Sept 27, 1913
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91052295/1913-09-27/ed-1/seq-1/
See also:
-re “Colorado Strike Song” by Frank Hayes
Despite much searching, unable to find a 1913-1914 source stating that Frank Hayes was the author of “Colorado Strike Song.” However, Thomas Andrews gives two sources, which, sadly, are not available online at this time.
From “The Colorado Coalfield War of 1913-’14” by Thomas Andrews
https://nieonline.com/coloradonie/downloads/ludlow/educators_ludlow_resource_set.pdf
Frank J. Hayes, “We’re Coming Colorado” (also known as “The Colorado Strike Song”), United Mine Workers Journal, September 18, 1913.
[Note:] Thomas Andrews is a Professor of History at the University of Colorado Boulder. His book on the Colorado Coalfield War, Killing for Coal, was chosen for the 2009 Bancroft Prize by Columbia University, one of the most coveted honors in the field of history. His work has also been featured in The New York Times and The Denver Post.
[Emphasis added.]
Killing for Coal
America’s Deadliest Labor War
-by Thomas G. Andrews
Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 2008
https://books.google.com/books?id=3Rg5LjBDFrgC
https://archive.org/details/killingforcoalam0000andr/page/235/mode/1up?q=%22frank+hayes%22+%22colorado+strike+song%22
-per pages 235-6:
“Colorado Strike Song” was written by Frank Hayes, VP UMWA
“The Colorado Strike Song”…[was] penned by the youthful Frank Hayes, the UMW’s Socialist vice president, and set to the rousing Civil War tune “The Battle Cry of Freedom.”…..”all Trinidad throbbed with the song.” [Note 6]
Note 6, page 358:
Denver Express, Sept 15, 1913. The official name of “The Colorado Strike Song” was “We’re Coming Colorado.”
[Emphasis added.]
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Denver United Labor Bulletin of October 18, 1913
-Frank Hayes: “Strike Leader, Poet, Magazine Writer, and Baseball Player”
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91052295/1913-10-18/ed-1/seq-1/
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