The Wheelers are a great family of Reds. Tim was, as many of you know, editor of the Peoples World for many years. As for remembering our working class heroes, Tim wrote a poem I published back in 1990 on the death of George Meyers ( https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1999-10-21-9910210183-story.html ) who at that time was Labor Secretary of the CPUSA and a close friend and inspiration of mine. the poem:
*The View From Dan's Mountain* In Memory of George A. Meyers, 1913-1999 >From Dan's Mountain, this October afternoon, Appalachia reaches a hundred miles. Leaves are falling, brown, red, yellow and russet. A glory lies upon the golden earth. You stood on this summit. These were your mountains. You endured like ice age rocks, the time of trial, prison, blacklists. You looked out from here into the heartland and felt like a fresh wind the workers rising. The old century passes of famine, war, and greed. Yet spring will come again. These mountainsides will thaw. The laurel will bloom. The land will tremble with hope like a tottering newborn calf. Native son of Lanaconing, the passion of your Irish mother, the courage of your coal miner father pulsed in your brave heart. You loved the miners, the mill workers, the farmers In the power of their hand and brain is the destiny of the world. They who forge the iron wheels and make them turn will take back what is theirs. The mine owners stripped the land, blackened the miner's lungs with dust, broke their strikes and walked away when the coal ran out. The people who dwell on George's Creek did not walk away. The bells of Saint Mary toll for you. Your sister lights a candle against the dark. Your ashes are scattered here and mingle with the rotting leaves. This is your earth. The struggle you started here, we will finish. The songs you sang here, we will sing. We hear your voice on the mountaintop in the rising winter wind. -- Tim Wheeler -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#7054): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/7054 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/81136921/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
