While in Pittsburgh and West Virginia singing labor songs recently, I did quite a few older and contemporary songs about miners and mining. A very good friend of mine asked me why I don't have any songs about packinghouse workers and the conditions they work under on the kill floor and on the butcher lines, especially since I had run organizing programs among these workers. I realized that I really didn't know any. Do any of you know of any? Have any of you written any of these songs?

All the best,

Mick