Songs for the Struggle: Music of the Labor Movement

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie lived through the Dust Bowl, the Great Depression, World Wars I & II, and the Red Scare. Guthrie also witnessed many of the perils that the labor movement faced when standing up to powerful interests. He traveled from Oklahoma to Texas, to California, then to New York, everywhere in between, and back again. He sang songs for the powerless and disenfranchised, and became an American icon along the way. Some of Guthrie's most powerful songs were about the struggles of the unions. Here is one about the violence that union workers endured, titled "Union Burying Ground." 

Source: http://www.woodyguthrie.org, The Official Woody Guthrie Website.