Awake! Ye men in Washington: by J. F. Kemp, Seymour, Texas

Poem attacks "goon-squad racketeers" who hinder war effort by upholding 40-hour week in war industries. Poem attacks "goon-squad racketeers" who hinder war effort by upholding 40-hour week in war industries. Printed in two columns. First line same as title. Poem in 17 numbered six-line stanzas. Suggested publication date from Kemp's printed letter accompanying Brown University copy and dated: Seymour, Texas, March 11, 1942.

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Original record: Awake! Ye men in Washington: by J. F. Kemp, Seymour, Texas
Collection: Harris Broadsides
Date(s): 1882 – 1945
1933 – 1945
Usage: Collection is open for research.
Rights Statement: No Copyright - United States
Creator(s): Kemp, J. F. (creator)
Subject(s): Broadsides
Brown University
Economic aspects
Hours of labor
Labor policy
Labor unions
Poetry
Politics and government
Protest poetry
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano)
Seymour
Texas
United States
War work
World War, 1939-1945
Type: text

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