How about Woodie Guthrie not giving proper credit for the music for this song??? This music is written by Kerry Mills in 1907 called Red Wing Polka, lyrics by Thruland Chattaway.... yep, copyright long expired or never existed, but credit is still due.... so who is ripping off who???
It's unfortunate that union consciousness has mostly died. This is precisely the song that the protesters should be singing at the capitol, but none of the attendees know it. Someone attempted to get people singing Solidarity Forever inside the capitol, but people had trouble even joining in for the chorus. Damn the red scare!
@Beatnikzombie - If you can remove yourself for a moment as someone who has to "protect" everything you perceive the union to be responsible for, you cannot help but see that what the governor and many others are trying to do is provide SUSTAINABILITY, which PROTECTS jobs. It is simply a matter of understanding that we do not collect enough receipts anymore to pay for everything that collective barganing will invariably promise. It's a stacked deck; simply trying to straighten it out.
While WI's budget hole of $3 billion seems like a lot, it's just 1.2 percent of the state's $244 billion economy. WI's GDP ranks54th in the world, between the United Arab Emirates and Finland.
There's plenty of money. It's just that Walker wants to give it to the rich instead of the rest, like the $140 million in tax cuts he just gave to corporations.
Combined, the US state budget deficits are projected at $112 billion for 2011. $150 billion will be spent in Iraq & Afghanistan.
@Squirrlyburt Bullshit.; Screwing the middle class isn't the answer. Perhaps taxing the rich and the big corporations would be an idea. But that would mean this asshole would have to screw his friends and benefactors.
@Squirrlyburt So you solve this buy screwing over the working class while still letting corporations and the top 1% earners practically escape taxes while being subsidized by the tax dollars of the very people they're trying to screw out of bargaining rights. And some how this is going to provide SUSTAINABILITY? Yeah it'll protect a job that will pay you less, strip you of benefits, and guarantee nothing except once you're wrung out you'll be ejected. No thanks!
@tasedlak True, but none of the 'fair' systems work, making them even less fair than capitalism in practice. Unions killed communism before it was born, as Marx lacked the vision to foresee them. Being a didactic guy, he was unable to conceive an accomodation (however bumpy) between labor & capital as an alternative to revolution. Don't blame capitalism for the gutless failures of a government that fails to regulate it properly.
Capitalism is a system based on private profit. When a system's goal is slanted toward individuals opposed to the overall population, I'd claim the system is the problem. I don't know how a government is supposed to regulate a system that's goal is for individual's to hoard wealth.
Capitalism allows for one person or a few to control all the wealth. Sounds like a bad system.
@tasedlak - say that to the BILLIONS of people who live far worse lives than any union person in the United States. It was "capitalism" which permitted millions of people to live middle class to above middle class existences with guaranteed jobs. It is a travesty in this day and age to see so many people not understand that a direct result of the wealth creation brought on was the entire uplifiting of a society. Your message is being drowned out by those of us who understand this.
Yes, thanks to capitalism for allowing some people to live in the middle class while forcing millions here and billions abroad into abject poverty.
You and the propaganda of the rich can try to drown out the people's message, but you'll fail, as evidenced in the Middle East and in my hometown of Madison, WI. Continue to worship the ruling elite and the hogwash they spout to justify the inequalities they create but don't expect to find any supporters in a group of Guthrie fans.
Does anyone know where to find a longer version of this song by Woody? I see it by other artists, but no one does it as good as Woody does.
a26z1c2b3 1 day ago in playlist Favorite videos
Budman, thank you for giving the source of the melody. I will check it out.
MikeMandaville 1 month ago
How about Woodie Guthrie not giving proper credit for the music for this song??? This music is written by Kerry Mills in 1907 called Red Wing Polka, lyrics by Thruland Chattaway.... yep, copyright long expired or never existed, but credit is still due.... so who is ripping off who???
BudmanPackfan 2 months ago
Is that Lee Hayes and Pete Seeger coming in on the chorus? 0:20
mikerickson01 8 months ago
This is a classic tune, by Woody Guthrie.
How come you didn't upload the entire song? Would YT not allow it?
PlayIt4MeAgainSam 9 months ago
@PlayIt4MeAgainSam
This is the actual track on the cd. Being a union man, a wobbly, I also wish it were the full version.
tasedlak 9 months ago
Governor Walker is trying to screw us all. I'm damn pissed.
Beatnikzombie 1 year ago 7
@Beatnikzombie
It's unfortunate that union consciousness has mostly died. This is precisely the song that the protesters should be singing at the capitol, but none of the attendees know it. Someone attempted to get people singing Solidarity Forever inside the capitol, but people had trouble even joining in for the chorus. Damn the red scare!
tasedlak 1 year ago 2
@Beatnikzombie - If you can remove yourself for a moment as someone who has to "protect" everything you perceive the union to be responsible for, you cannot help but see that what the governor and many others are trying to do is provide SUSTAINABILITY, which PROTECTS jobs. It is simply a matter of understanding that we do not collect enough receipts anymore to pay for everything that collective barganing will invariably promise. It's a stacked deck; simply trying to straighten it out.
Squirrlyburt 11 months ago
@Squirrlyburt
While WI's budget hole of $3 billion seems like a lot, it's just 1.2 percent of the state's $244 billion economy. WI's GDP ranks54th in the world, between the United Arab Emirates and Finland.
There's plenty of money. It's just that Walker wants to give it to the rich instead of the rest, like the $140 million in tax cuts he just gave to corporations.
Combined, the US state budget deficits are projected at $112 billion for 2011. $150 billion will be spent in Iraq & Afghanistan.
TingoTroy 11 months ago 2
@Squirrlyburt Bullshit.; Screwing the middle class isn't the answer. Perhaps taxing the rich and the big corporations would be an idea. But that would mean this asshole would have to screw his friends and benefactors.
Beatnikzombie 11 months ago
@Squirrlyburt So you solve this buy screwing over the working class while still letting corporations and the top 1% earners practically escape taxes while being subsidized by the tax dollars of the very people they're trying to screw out of bargaining rights. And some how this is going to provide SUSTAINABILITY? Yeah it'll protect a job that will pay you less, strip you of benefits, and guarantee nothing except once you're wrung out you'll be ejected. No thanks!
1bIgFaTsOnOfAbItCh 2 months ago
Yuz' kids don't scare me, I'm stickin' with Delores!
BucksFurnace 1 year ago
Unions would be unnecessary and nonexistent had capital treated labor fairly from the start.
LBDumont 1 year ago 3
@LBDumont
That's capitalism, an unfair system that leads to gross in inequality.
tasedlak 1 year ago
@tasedlak True, but none of the 'fair' systems work, making them even less fair than capitalism in practice. Unions killed communism before it was born, as Marx lacked the vision to foresee them. Being a didactic guy, he was unable to conceive an accomodation (however bumpy) between labor & capital as an alternative to revolution. Don't blame capitalism for the gutless failures of a government that fails to regulate it properly.
LBDumont 1 year ago
@LBDumont
Capitalism is a system based on private profit. When a system's goal is slanted toward individuals opposed to the overall population, I'd claim the system is the problem. I don't know how a government is supposed to regulate a system that's goal is for individual's to hoard wealth.
Capitalism allows for one person or a few to control all the wealth. Sounds like a bad system.
tasedlak 1 year ago
@tasedlak - say that to the BILLIONS of people who live far worse lives than any union person in the United States. It was "capitalism" which permitted millions of people to live middle class to above middle class existences with guaranteed jobs. It is a travesty in this day and age to see so many people not understand that a direct result of the wealth creation brought on was the entire uplifiting of a society. Your message is being drowned out by those of us who understand this.
Squirrlyburt 11 months ago
@Squirrlyburt
Yes, thanks to capitalism for allowing some people to live in the middle class while forcing millions here and billions abroad into abject poverty.
You and the propaganda of the rich can try to drown out the people's message, but you'll fail, as evidenced in the Middle East and in my hometown of Madison, WI. Continue to worship the ruling elite and the hogwash they spout to justify the inequalities they create but don't expect to find any supporters in a group of Guthrie fans.
tasedlak 11 months ago 2
Union Yes! LIUNA member.
buffdiggy 1 year ago
you can't scare me
jangothor 1 year ago
I believe that's Lee Hayes I hear on here.
SirCoughsalot 1 year ago
Union means what? Health care, education, workers rights. DAMN RIGHT! I'm sticking to the union.
nikbelane 2 years ago 6
God bless the union and the nobility of labour - we can bring it back.
markse4444 2 years ago 12
UNION NOW !!!!!!!!
ganlesat 2 years ago 3