{"id":9601,"date":"2023-08-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9601"},"modified":"2023-08-04T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T05:00:00","slug":"mans-right-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/mans-right-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Man\u2019s Right to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn89074405\/1915-08-04\/ed-1\/seq-6\/\">Grand Forks Daily Herald, August 4, 1915<\/a>. By Edwin Markham.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Out on the road they have gathered a hundred thousand men,<br\/>To ask for a hold on life as sure as the wolf\u2019s hold in his den.<br\/>Their need lies close to the quick of life as the earth lies close to the stone;<br\/>It is as meat to the slender rib, as marrow to the bone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>They ask but the leave of labor, to toil in the endless night,<br\/>For a little salt to savor their bread, for houses water-tight.<br\/>They ask but the right to labor and to live by the strength of their hands\u2014<br\/>They who have bodies like knotted oaks, and patience like sea-sands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>And the right of a man to labor and his right to labor in joy\u2014<br\/>Not all your laws can strangle that right, nor the gates of Hell destroy.<br\/>For it came with the making of man and was kneaded into his bones,<br\/>And it will stand at the last of things on the dust of crumbled thrones.<br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Grand Forks Daily Herald, August 4, 1915. By Edwin Markham. Out on the road they have gathered a hundred thousand men,To ask for a hold on life as sure as the wolf\u2019s hold in his den.Their need lies close to the quick of life as the earth lies close to the stone;It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,3],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-9601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-forks-daily-herald","category-newspapers","tag-edwin-markham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}