In a Facebook discussion of this song Alan Bard Newcomer led me to this page, a History of Work Cooperation in America, by John Curl. There is similar information in Curl's book, For All the People.
Curl gives circa 1890 as the date for the song, and the songwriter name as Kellogg. Most probably, this is the same Arthur L. Kellogg who wrote the 1916 temperance song, Vote Nebraska Dry.

-Joe-