Even though Ralph Chaplin wrote the song “Solidarity Forever” in 1915 for the Industrial Workers of World War I, its refrain is as relevant and important today as it was more than 100 years ago: “When the union’s inspiration thru the worker’s blood shall run, there can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun, yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one, but the union makes us strong. Solidarity forever, solidarity forever, solidarity forever, for the union makes us strong.”
Members of Local 237 joined other unions to show their support of the sentiments expressed in the song when we celebrated Labor Day with a parade along Fifth Avenue on Sept. 8. As we marched, we kept in mind the words of other great advocates of labor unions, like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., President John F. Kennedy, and even the Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who said that America was better off because of unions.
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