Then if blood be the price of all your wealth,
Good God! We have paid it in full.
-Unknown Proletarian
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Hellraisers Journal, Monday July 15, 1918
Chicago, Illinois – I. W. W. Prison Song Series Now Available
Sheet Music for “We Have Fed You all For a Thousand Years”-
Detail: Copyright by Wm. D. Haywood; Art by G. B.-
From Fourteenth Edition (April 1918) of I.W.W. Songs:
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SOURCES
I.W.W. Songs, General Defense Edition
https://digital.wolfsonian.org/WOLF045327/00001/pageturner#page/1
14th Edition, April 1918
https://digital.wolfsonian.org/WOLF045327/00001/pageturner#page/3
Index, page 23 = “We Have Fed You All…”
-sadly, page 23 is missing.
https://digital.wolfsonian.org/WOLF045327/00001/pageturner#page/5
Prison Series: sheet music available for “We Have Fed You All…”
https://digital.wolfsonian.org/WOLF045327/00001/pageturner#page/55
IMAGE
We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years, Haywood, G. B. 1918
Note: see also great article re IWW print blocks discovered (photo at link!) and project planned to create reproductions from same:
“Collaborating with CE Setzer and Wobbly Artists” -by Dylan Miner, Nov 27, 2017
Note: 1918 Songsheets for sale:
(Here’s hoping someone will purchase with aim to preserve in mint condition!)
https://www.betweenthecovers.com/pages/books/392837/rudolph-von-liebich-big-bill-haywood-an-unknown-proletarian/we-have-fed-you-all-a-thousand-years
http://www.thecobbs.com/auction-2014-03-29-lot-500.html
Note: I made every effort that I could think of to track down the artist: “G. B.” -to no avail. Nearest I could come was the 1911 pamphlet: “General Strike” by Haywood with “Last War” by G. B. Of course there is no way (so far) to know if this is even the same G. B. More research needed.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015079009182;view=2up;seq=1;size=75
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015079009182;view=2up;seq=20;size=751
See also:
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 75 returns form 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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Cry of Toil, “We Have Fed You All” ISR May 1917
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=SVRIAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA647
We Have Fed You All For A Thousand Years – Bruce Brackney