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The Factory Slave

The Factory Slave
[1880s]
Parole di Thomas Phillips Thompson (1843-1933), inglese di nascita ma trapiantato in Canada, giornalista, militante del Knights of Labor e poi del Partito socialista. Autore del volumetto di canzoni “The labor reform songster” pubblicato nel 1892 sul “Journal of the Knights of Labor”
Sulla melodia della popolare “Way Down upon the Swanee River”
Toiling amid the smoke and clamor
(continuer)
envoyé par Bernart Bartleby 12/2/2016 - 10:43
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Pennsylvania Miner

Pennsylvania Miner
[1880s]
Parole e musica di Thomas Phillips Thompson (1843-1933), inglese di nascita ma trapiantato in Canada, giornalista, militante del Knights of Labor e poi del Partito socialista. Autore del volumetto di canzoni “The labor reform songster”, pubblicato nel 1892 sul “Journal of the Knights of Labor”, in cui si trova anche questa canzone.

[2005]
Album: If All The Land Would Rise
Lyrics by Phillips Thompson (1892); Music by Ethan Miller

The anthracite coal of Pennsylvania, like all such precious industrial fuels, was extracted and refined by people working endless hours in dangerous conditions for little pay. The excessive costs of company housing and company store provisions forced mining families into an endless cycle of debt-ridden enslavement to the mine owners. In the mid to late 1800’s, the Knights of Labor organized miners to challenge these conditions. The Pinkerton Detective... (continuer)
Come on all you working folk, a story I'll relate
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envoyé par giorgio 5/11/2009 - 08:23




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