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Friday Jan 17, 2025
Friday Jan 17, 2025
Today in labor history, January 17, 1915, the most popular labor song in the United States was completed in Chicago. Ralph Chaplin, an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) activist, artist and writer was in town for a demonstration against hunger. He finished writing “Solidarity Forever,” a song he had started working on the year before at a Miner’s strike in West Virginia.
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