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"There Is Power in a Union" is a trade union song written by Joe Hill in 1913. The song uses the tune of Lewis E. Jones' 1899 hymn "Power in the Blood", hence the similar name.

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The Wobblies concentrated much of its labor trying to organize migrant workers in lumberand construction camps. They sometimes had competition for the attention of the workers from religious organizations.

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