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"The Little Red Song Book" of the Industrial Workers of the World as published in 1918. (Photo by John Burwell of copy of book in AFL–CIO Library.)

port Workers' Strike Song," it appeared in the first (1909) edition and in the 1918, 1919, 1945, and 1964 editions of "The Little Red Song Book" and probably in other editions as well.^[133] In the 1964 edition there appears, following the song, the declaration that "the working class will never be free until it can blow the whistle for the parasites to go to work. . . ." The four verses and chorus of the song show a striking resemblance to the words that Bliss wrote in 1870:

We meet today in Freedom's cause
And raise our voices high;
We'll join our hands in union strong,
To battle or to die.

Hold the fort for we are corning—
Union men, be strong.
Side by side we battle onward,
Victory will come.