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Don't Mourn, Organize
 

I am a Union Carpenter
and our Union needs change

 
 
"Organize or Die"
 

Doug McCarron, General President, UBC
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America


he might have gotten the line from a book:
ORGANIZE OR DIE
written and published in 1970 by
Clyde Johnson
Millman local 550

 

Which would you like it to be?

 
 

If we are to revitalize unions, to once again have the power to improve the lives of working people, we must involve our rank and file.

ranknfile.net

(mouse-over Joe's eyes)    
Written just before he was executed
on trumped up charges by the state of Utah,
7:46am 19 Nov 1915
Joe Hill's Will is a true testament to the Wobbly spirit.
   

"The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one of uniting all working people of all nations, tongues and kindred."

Abraham Lincoln

 
a song
My will is easy to decide,
For there is nothing to divide,
My kin don't need to fuss and moan-
"Moss does not cling to a rolling stone."
My body? Ah, If I could choose,
I would to ashes it reduce,
And let the merry breezes blow
My dust to where some flowers grow.
Perhaps some fading flower then
Would come to life and bloom again.
This is my last and final will,
Good luck to all of you,
 
                                              Joe Hill
 

If freedom's road seems rough and hard,
and strewn with rocks and thorns,
Then put your wooden shoes on, pard
and you won't hurt your corns.

To organize and teach, no dought
is very good- that's true,
but still we can't succeed without
that Good Old Wooden Shoe.

Joe Hill

    i saw what you did.....

 

 

 
 

I'm a union carpenter in the pacific northwest, one of a group of activists looking for contacts interested in promoting rank and file participation in:
-Organizing
-Democracy
-Technology, using the web