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42  and Sing, an album of the ILGWU; and by the Union Boys in Songs for Victory.

Words from "Hold the Fort" appeared in a CIO songbook in 1954, in a songbook of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America about 1958, and, recently, in a song collection of the AFL–CIO that has gone through at least six printings. Official union publications have thus brought the old strike song into the present era of the merger of the two great labor organizations under the presidency of George Meany. In 1954 Barrie Stavis published the words and music of the chorus in his dramatic and biographical work on Joe Hill titled The Man Who Never Died, and in 1960 Edith Fowke and Joe Glazer published the entire song, words and music, together with historical notes, in their Songs of Work and Freedom. Here was a song, they indicated, that should be sung "with determination."

With the coming of respectability and even affluence to much of the labor force in the United States, workers do not sing as much as they used to. As Joe Glazer observed several years ago: "When six guys get killed