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and memorial service, see Jerry M. Flint, "Reuther Praised in Funeral Rites; Old Ballad Ends Service for U.A.W. Chief and Wife," The New York Times, 16 May 1970, p. 25; "'They Made Us Better People,'" UAW Solidarity, vol. 13, June 1970 (memorial issue), p. 14; and "A Memorial Service for Walter and May Reuther, Friday, May 22, 1970, Washington Cathedral, Mount Saint Alban, Washington, D.C."

126. John G. T. Spink, Judge Landis and Twenty-Five Years of Baseball (1947), p. 1. "Kenesaw" was a common misspelling of Kennesaw during the Civil War and afterward.

127. See Renshaw, The Wobblies, pp. 215–271; Dubofsky, We Shall Be All, pp. 423–444, 472; Hardy, Those Stormy Years, pp. 85–122; the decision of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit, in Haywood et al. v. U.S., 268 F. 795; the United States Supreme Court's refusal to issue a writ of certiorari in the Haywood case, 256 U.S. 689; and "Ralph H. Chaplin of IWW Is Dead," The New York Times, 29 March 1961, p. 33.

128. See also Ralph H. Chaplin, When the Leaves Come Out and other Rebel Verses (1917), and his Somewhat Barbaric: A Selection of Poems, Lyrics and Sonnets (1944).

129. Quoted from Songs of the Workers: On the Road, in the Jungles, and in the Shops (14th edition, April 1918) by permission of Industrial Workers of the World, Carl Keller, general secretary-treasurer, Chicago, Illinois. The words appear opposite the frontispiece—a photograph of Joe Hill.

130. Upton Sinclair, Singing Jailbirds: A Drama in Four Acts (1924), pp. 5, 6, 10, 87–95.

131. The formal title of this (15th) edition of "The Little Red Song Book" is the same as that of the 14th edition, cited as Songs of the Workers in note 129, above.

132. For complete words see Songs of the Workers (15th edition, 1919), pp. 16–17. Verses are quoted by permission of Industrial Workers of the World, Carl Keller, general secretary-treasurer, Chicago, Illinois.

133. The 1919 IWW program is reproduced in Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology, edited by Joyce L. Kornbluh (1964), p. 330. Information concerning the publication of the modern labor version of "Hold the Fort" in the 28th (1945) edition of "The Little Red Song Book" is contained in a letter (enclosing the words of the song) from William R. Morgan of the general library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, to Scheips, 1 May 1956.

134. Quotation from Songs of the Workers to Fan the Flames of Discontent (31st edition, May 1964, p. 33) by permission of Industrial Workers of the World, Carl Keller, general secretary-treasurer, Chicago, Illinois. The title of this edition of Songs of the Workers is slightly different from that of the 1918 edition, which is cited in note 129, above. Some planning for a new edition of "The Little Red Song Book" had been accomplished by early 1969 for publication upon exhaustion of the existing supply of the old edition (letter, Keller to Scheips, 12 February 1969). On the history of this famous little songbook, whose first edition carried "Hold the Fort," see Richard Brazier, "The Story of the IWW's 'Little Red Songbook,'" Labor History, vol. 9 (winter 1968), pp. 91–105. Brazier was a member of the committee that collected and published the first (1909) edition in Spokane, Washington, under the inspiration of