Casey Jones—the Union Scab
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Casey Jones—the Union Scab
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"Casey Jones—the Union Scab" is a song, written by labor figure Joe Hill in San Pedro, California, shortly after the first day of a nationwide walkout of 40,000 railway employees in the Illinois Central shopmen's strike of 1911. It is a parody of the song "The Ballad of Casey Jones" and is sung to its tune. The song is not historically accurate: Casey Jones was an active, dues-paying member of two labor unions that both paid out life insurance to his widow. The song was published in the Little R
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Parody of Ballad of Casey Jones
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2023-11-15T17:20:23Z
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