The Four Hour Day

We Are Building A Strong Union

Whitten by the cotton mill workers of Marion, North Carolina, U.S.A. in 1929. The

workers struck when the bosses tried to lengthen their 12 hour workdays. The

She's five feet owo, she's six feet four,

She works with pampers and with shears.

She's all of sixty-one and she's only seventeen:

She's been a housewife for a hundred-thousand years.

She's a woman, she's a man, a houseboy Charlie Chan

Filipino, homosexual, and Jew,

And she knows she shouldn' slave, and she knows she'll

stay a knave,

'Count a me my friend and 'count a you.

And she's sewing for Canada, she's cooking for France

She's cleaning for the U.S.A.

And she's mopping for the Russians and she's shopping for

And she thinks she'll put an end to toil this way.

And she's washing all the dishes, she's making all the beds

She says ite for Oe wood or all. nuns

She's the one who must decide what to leave and what to

And she's wiping all the writing off the wall.

Bur without her how would Hitler have condemned her to

Without her Moses would've jerked alone.

She's the one who gives her body like utensils in a store,

And without her all this drudgin' can' go on.

She's the universal housewife and she really is to blame

Her own false standards they deprave.

They come from here and now and you and me,

This is not the way we put an end to slaves.

We ae build - ing a strong un - jon,

We me build - ing a strong un - ion,

We we build - ing & strong un - jon,

We are building a strong union,

We are building a strong union,

We are building a strong union,

Workers in the mill!

Every member makes us stronger...

We won' budge until we conquer...

We shall rise and gain our freedom . . .