Editing Woody Guthrie (section)

====Labor for Victory====
In April 1942, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine reported that the [[American Federation of Labor|AFL]] (American Federation of Labor) and the [[Congress of Industrial Organizations]] (CIO) had agreed to a joint radio production, called ''Labor for Victory''. NBC agreed to run the weekly segment as a "public service". The AFL and CIO presidents [[William Green (U.S. labor leader)|William Green]] and [[Philip Murray]] agreed to let their press chiefs, [[Philip Pearl]] and [[Len De Caux]], narrate on alternate weeks. The show ran on NBC radio on Saturdays 10:15–10:30&nbsp;pm, starting on April 25, 1942. ''Time'' wrote, "De Caux and Pearl hope to make the Labor for Victory program popular enough for an indefinite run, using labor news, name speakers and interviews with workmen. Labor partisanship, they promise, is out."<ref>
{{cite magazine
| title = Radio: Labor Goes on Air
| magazine = Time magazine
| url = https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,790387,00.html
| date = April 20, 1942
| access-date = July 27, 2017}}</ref><ref name="NBC">
{{cite book
| first = Michele
| last = Hilmes
| title = NBC: America's Network
| publisher = University of California Press
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rovD3dy-vDoC
| page = 73
| place = Berkeley
| date = 2007
| access-date = July 27, 2017| isbn = 9780520250819
}}</ref> Writers for ''Labor for Victory'' included: Peter Lyon, a progressive journalist; [[Millard Lampell]] (born Allan Sloane), later an American movie and television screenwriter; and Morton Wishengrad, who worked for the AFL.<ref>
{{cite book
| editor-first = Christopher H.
| editor-last = Sterling
| title = Biographical Dictionary of Radio
| publisher = Routledge
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=XDB5mn0OMXoC
| page = 293
| date = May 13, 2013
| access-date = July 27, 2017| isbn = 978-1136993763
}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
| editor-first = Christopher H.
| editor-last = Sterling
| editor-first2 = Cary
| editor-last2 = O'Dell
| title = The Concise Dictionary of America Radio
| publisher = Routledge
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=dmmLAgAAQBA
| page = 563
| date = April 12, 2010
| access-date = July 27, 2017
}}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

For entertainment on CIO episodes, De Caux asked singer and songwriter Woody Guthrie to contribute to the show. "Personally, I would like to see a phonograph record made of your 'Girl in the Red, White, and Blue.{{' "}}<ref name=":1">
{{cite book
| editor-first = John S.
| editor-last = Partington
| title = The Life, Music and Thought of Woody Guthrie: A Critical Appraisal
| publisher = Routledge
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=QNIYDQAAQBAJ
| date = September 17, 2016
| access-date = July 27, 2017| isbn = 9781317025443
}}</ref> The title appears in at least one collection of Guthrie records.<ref>{{cite web
| title = Woodie Guthrie: American Radical Patriot
| publisher = WoodieGuthrie.org
| url = http://www.woodyguthrie.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TWGS&Product_Code=WGARP&Category_Code=
| access-date = July 27, 2017
| archive-date = January 11, 2018
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180111224247/http://www.woodyguthrie.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TWGS&Product_Code=WGARP&Category_Code=
| url-status = dead
}}</ref> Guthrie consented and performed solo two or three times on this program (among several other WWII radio shows, including ''Answering You'', ''Labor for Victory'', ''Jazz in America'', and ''We the People'').<ref>
{{cite journal
 |last=Jackson
 |first=Mark
 |date=2001
 |title=In Search of Woody Guthrie at the Library of Congress
 |journal=Folklife Center News
 |url=https://www.loc.gov/folklife/news/pdf/FCNxxiii2.pdf
 |volume=23
 |pages=7–9
 |access-date = August 2, 2017}}</ref><ref>
{{cite book
| first = R. Serge
| last = Denisoff
| title = Folk Consciousness: People's Music and American Communism
| publisher = Simon Fraser University
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_xDaAAAAMAAJ
| page = 241
| date = 1968
| access-date = July 27, 2017}}</ref><ref>
{{cite book
| editor-first  = Robert
| editor-last   = Santelli
| editor-first2 = Emily
| editor-last2  = Davidson
| title         = Hard Travelin': The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie
| publisher     = Wesleyan University Press
| url           = https://books.google.com/books?id=CJIp65eNkCUC
| page          = 241
| date          = 1999
| access-date   = July 27, 2017| isbn = 9780819563910
}}</ref> On August 29, 1942, he performed "The Farmer-Labor Train", with lyrics he had written to the tune of "[[Wabash Cannonball]]". (In 1948, he reworked the "Wabash Cannonball" melody as "The Wallace-Taylor Train" for the [[1948 Progressive National Convention]], which nominated former U.S. Vice President [[Henry A. Wallace]] for president.)<ref>
{{cite book
| first = Bill
| last = Nowlin
| title = Woody Guthrie: American Radical Patriot
| publisher = Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc.
| page = 170
| date = 2013
}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web
| title = Farmer-Labor Train
| publisher = Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc.
| url = http://woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/Farmer-Labor_Train.htm
| access-date = September 5, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| title = Woody Guthrie American Radical Patriot, 2013
| publisher = Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc.
| url = http://www.woodyguthrie.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TWGS&Product_Code=WGARP&Category_Code=
| access-date = September 5, 2017
| archive-date = January 11, 2018
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180111224247/http://www.woodyguthrie.org/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TWGS&Product_Code=WGARP&Category_Code=
| url-status = dead
}}</ref> The [[Almanac Singers]] (of which Guthrie and Lampell were co-founders) appeared on ''The Treasury Hour'' and CBS Radio's ''We the People''. The latter was later produced as a [[We the People (U.S. TV series)|television series]].<ref>
{{cite book
| first = Will
| last = Kaufman
| title = Woody Guthrie, American Radical
| publisher = University of Illinois Press
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=uQop2edOXrkC
| page = 84

| date = October 1, 2012
| access-date = August 2, 2017| isbn = 9780199977086
}}</ref> (Also, [[Marc Blitzstein]]'s papers show that Guthrie made some contributions to four CIO episodes (dated June 20, June 27, August 1, August 15, 1948) of ''Labor for Victory.''<ref>
{{cite book
| first = Howard
| last = Pollack
| title = Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World
| publisher = Oxford University Press
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=uQop2edOXrkC
| place = London, New York
| date = July 31, 2017
| access-date = July 27, 2017| isbn = 9780199977086
}}</ref>) While ''Labor for Victory'' was a milestone in theory as a national platform, in practice it proved less so. Only 35 of 104 NBC affiliates carried the show.<ref name=NBC /><ref>
{{cite book
| first = Elizabeth A.
| last = Fones-Wolf
| title = Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio
| publisher = University of Illinois Press
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=bABsxfphOM8C
| page = 103
| date = 2006
| access-date = July 27, 2017| isbn = 9780252073649
}}</ref><ref>
{{cite book
| first = Nathan
| last = Godfried
| title = WCFL, Chicago's Voice of Labor, 1926-78
| publisher = University of Illinois Press
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=wd_PDZkvS8cC
| page = 210
| date = 1997
| access-date = July 27, 2017| isbn = 9780252065927
}}</ref> Episodes included the announcement that the show represented "twelve million organized men and women, united in the high resolve to rid the world of Fascism in 1942". Speakers included [[Donald E. Montgomery]], then "consumer's counselor" at the [[U.S. Department of Agriculture]].<ref>
{{cite web
| title = Labor for Victory
| publisher = Pandora
| url = https://www.pandora.com/artist/woody-guthrie/american-radical-patriot/labor-for-victory/TR5VhxmjbZXZ39g
| access-date = July 27, 2017}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web
| title = Labor for Victory
| website = Amazon
| url = https://www.amazon.com/Labor-For-Victory/dp/B00FTU97CI
| access-date = July 27, 2017}}</ref><ref>
{{cite web
| title = Labor for Victory
| publisher = SoundCloud
| url = https://soundcloud.com/woody-guthrie-official/labor-for-victory
| access-date = July 27, 2017}}</ref>