I'm no Wobblie but I knew one. I am a union member and have been for twenty years and a few others before that. About thirty two years ago I met a character named Iberius Hacker, a Chicago community organizer, folk musician and general all around. He was a white Appalachian who was a preacher in the black baptist church and claimed to have once sold moonshine from his cop car in Chattanooga, met M L King in a jail in Alabama. He also said he toured with Utah Phillips and they were both wobblies. I met him in a small coffee house in Cincinnati after he left Chicago. I played harmonica with him and soon we formed a band. He knew about every blues, country, spiritual and union song you could mention. (Including Solidarity Forever, Joe Hill and Dark as a Dungeon.) He once had a heart attack on stage but kept playing. We played together off and on for a couple of years, but he went to an anti-Clan march in South Carolina and had another heart attack, that time fatal.
A few years later I met Utah Phillips and he said they were good friends. Now he's gone too.

Pie in the sky, that's a lie...
but I'll have some here and another beer...

Larry2



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> Good for you Chris!
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> Chris and I will get:
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> ....pie 
>  in the sky
>  when you die
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> The rest of youse bums:
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> No pie
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> Steve Stokowski
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> (HINT in passing:  look up and read the rest of the song and  refrains)
> (Additional note:  - in some translations, Sto (in STOkowski)  translates 
> as Hill (hold your tongue, Witold))
> (And my middle name is Joe)
> (So, I may literally be s. Joe Hill)
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> In a message dated 2/15/2010 9:51:32 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
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> In a message dated 2/15/2010 7:29:37 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
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> I think that I was the only one. So  much for the  IWW - BP local. 
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>  
> 1.    National Writer's Union
> 2.    National Association of Letter Carriers
> 3.    Inland Seas Maritime Union (bulk cargo carriers  on Great Lakes.)
>  
> Humph!!!!
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