Do not win. Especially if they lose the support of the non Rich that provide their riches and protect them. In 1919 the city of Winnipeg held a six week general strike to protest low wages and bad working conditions. With, I believe, one exception, every union in the city joined. This included the police, although the strike committee asked the police to stay on the job to prevent martial law. Eventually they were to a man fired and replaced by 'specials' and by NW Mounties.

This song is by Mike Ford, former member of Moxy Fruvous, who now makes a living writing history songs about Canada and presenting them in Canadian schools.

and yet with a universality.

Songs,and their writers, are about filling holes.

who laughs so freely, she writes the saddest stories.

Some songs are timeless and some just never loose their need to be sung

The power of stories lies in their universality.

A fine songwriter on his own, still tis fine to hear him with the trads.

He is still a giant.