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lirik lagu joe glazer - talking iwa

i’m gonna tell you all about the i.w.a., you’ll find us in canada and the u.s.a., in british columbia and in oregon
in the east, the south, the state of washington… working in the woods
in the sawmills and planing mills
in the plywood and hardboard plants
if it’s made out of wood you can bet that iwa members had something to do with it. we’re fallers and buckers and choker~setters, sawyers, mechanics, iwa go~getters
men who run bulldozers, men who run cranes, we run the sanders, we run the planes;
chipperman, glue mixers, electricians
shinglе packers, log stackers and weird sounding positions.. likе… green chain off~bearer, shake makers, rigging slinger… crazy sounding jobs
but they’re all important ~ yes, indeed, for we process the wood lots of folks need… tables and chairs and kitchen cabinets, mobile homes and kennels for your pets; baseball bats and hockey sticks
telephone poles and wooden toothpicks…
wooden barrels for your beer and pickles
skies and snow shoes ~ yes, and even a few wooden nickels;
wood for pulp, wood for doors
wood for your homes, your furniture, your floors
wood is everywhere, and someplace along the way it was touched by a member of the iwa…
a mighty fine union
men and women working under pretty fair condtions; but it hasn’t been easy…
cause we’ve been a long time marching down
the union road
it was forty years ago in tacoma, washington
when the woodworkers gathered to get the job done; we’re gonna build the best union you’ve ever seen, remember the date ~ july nineteen…
nineteen thirty~seven; one big union in wood;
gonna roll and go with the cio, gonna roll that union on
lumber workers had tried many times before
but year after year they were crushed to the floor;
company spies and company towns
injunctions, vigilantes kept the lumberjack down
worked all winter till his bones would freeze
slept in the bunkhouse with the bedbugs and fleas. ate his slop from a greasy old plate
worked from early in morning till late. carried his blanket on his back, the homeless, voteless lumberjack… a timber~beast, a bindle~stiff
a blanket bum… he sure needed a union. the lumber worker tried as hard as he could, every timber town was stained with his blood:
centralia, everett, aberdeen
louisiana, newfoundland ~ the toughest battles, labor’s ever seen. he organized in canada and the usa
he had lots of unions before the iwa…
..but he couldn’t make them stick….
the international union of shingle workers; the international union of timber workers; the industrial workers of the world; the lumber workers industrial union…
well, forty years ago we got a brand new start; the iwa gave lumberworkers heart
we improved the conditions, raised the pay, won all kinds of benefits with the iwa…
health and welfare, pensions and life insurance, vacations and holiday pay
safety and seniority protection, over~time and travel time
good eating and sleeping in the lumber camps
now, it’s forty years later and truth be told
we feel like twenty~one, not forty years old. we’ve still got lots of hard work to do
we’ve got to organize and make the job better for you
and you and you wherever you are
because the iwa isn’t run by some labor czar;
it’s run by you and your buddies in the woods and the shops, it’s too late to look back and too early to stop…
so we’ll just keep moving ahead, building a union of woodworkers
we may not be the biggest
but let me tell you ~ we’re one of the best. let’s keep it that way..
for the next forty years

- lirik lagu joe glazer

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