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Labor’s Troubadour Tells His Life Story Story by Hedy Hilburn
Joe Glazer -- a “musical agitator for all causes” -- tells a fine story of his life in a new book, Labor’s Troubadour. Weaving past and present labor history through the social fabric of the times, he places labor music within the context of everyday struggles of workers--from organizing drives to the shop floor. Glazer started out in the labor movement in 1944 as assistant educational director of the CIO Textile Workers Union. He talks about the textile workers in the North and the South, then moves on to the United Rubber Workers union. Devoting a whole chapter to the UAW--one of the unions that made his book possible--Glazer writes not only about the songs he wrote for the autoworkers, but also the songs Maurice Sugar, attorney for the UAW in the 1930s, wrote. This section features a photo of former UAW President Walter Reuther and Glazer singing the song “Joe Hill.” Glazer, who describes his odd occupation as a “singer of labor songs,”
takes us on a whirlwind tour through coal mines, politics, and numerous
presidential campaigns. Glazer sums up: “In my own way, I have tried to render justice--or at least help others to do so--through my work in the labor movement, in politics, and around the world.” Labor’s Troubadour is an open, honest book. Glazer’s writing
style makes you feel like you’re there--singing the songs and struggling
for justice, dignity and respect.
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