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\"\"Reflections by Local 47 member Ross Altman, Ph.D<\/em><\/p>\n

Recently I had the strangest dream. It had to do with my union card for American Federation of Musicians Local 47, and what it means to me. In my dream I just barely touched the truck in front of me when we were both stopped at a red light. The driver got out and decided to make a federal case out of it, even though there was no visible damage to the back of his truck. He said that he would not report it if I agreed to give up my \u201cfreight card\u201d (in his words) for good; I would no longer be a member of the professional musicians\u2019 union. I told you it was a strange dream. And yet it forced me to confront the question of what my union card meant to me\u2014and whether it was worth all the hassle and potential expense of dealing with my insurance company and the DMV in order to keep my card.<\/p>\n

I have been a proud member of AFM Local 47 ever since I met Serena Kay Williams, who was then Secretary\/Treasurer of the Local. She heard me do a program of labor songs for the Jewish Labor Committee, one of many union-inspired organizations in Los Angeles. After I ended the program with IWW (Wobbly) member Ralph Chaplin\u2019s anthem of the labor movement, written in 1910, \u201cSolidarity Forever,\u201d Serena came up to me and benignly asked if I was in the union\u2014not the IWW, but the musicians union Local 47. My face turned a bright beet red and I admitted I was not\u2014right after singing 10 of the most eloquent arguments for belonging to the union I had in my repertoire including John Handcox\u2019s \u201cRoll the Union On,\u201d Woody Guthrie\u2019s \u201cUnion Maid,\u201d and Florence Reece\u2019s \u201cWhich Side Are You On?\u201d She wasted no time in telling me that I should be in the union, both because I was being paid for the booking and because my repertoire reflected a union soul. I could see no argument against joining, so like Woody said in his song \u201cYou Gotta Go Down and Join the Union,\u201d I did just that. That was more than 15 years ago, and I have been not just a folk singer, but a union folk singer, ever since. Not just figuratively, but literally, I have paid my dues.<\/p>\n

To fully appreciate what this means I encourage you to see \u201cInside Llewyn Davis,\u201d the Coen Brothers movie about a folk singer in the early days of the Greenwich Village folk revival. There is a great sequence in the movie of what a union card meant to Llewyn Davis. It wasn\u2019t a musicians\u2019 union card, but his Merchant Marines seaman\u2019s union card. In this part of the movie, as his life is otherwise falling apart around him, he returns to his sister\u2019s apartment to pick up his few belongings, most notably his Merchant Marines union card so he can go back to sea and finally make enough to support himself. His sister nonchalantly tells him that she threw out the small box that had his seaman\u2019s papers, including the card that would allow him to accept work on a merchant ship. The forlorn look in his eyes when she tells him that she threw it out\u2014as having no value\u2014tells you everything you need to know about Llewyn Davis: he is the real deal; he now knows that his life has come to nothing, and the last hope he had was embodied in that union card. When he goes down to the docks to try and enlist without his card he is told in no uncertain terms that without his union card he cannot get an assignment. That Merchant Marine\u2019s card is his\u2014in the language of the Beatles\u2014\u201cticket to ride.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now you know what my dream and musician\u2019s union card means to me\u2014the difference between being a working musician who, like the Bible says, is \u201cworthy of his hire,\u201d and just playing guitar for myself and friends. In short, it means everything.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the strangest dream I had, and it revealed to me what a small union card I carry in my wallet means. It\u2019s a symbol of why I became a folk singer in the first place\u2014it truly is a \u201cfreight card,\u201d just as the trucker in my dream called it, and the freight it carries is the significance of the social values represented by Joe Hill and Woody Guthrie\u2014the attitude of \u201cone for all, and all for one,\u201d as opposed to everyone for themselves. We may no longer live in a world where unions have much power, but nonetheless I sing Joe Hill\u2019s song \u201cThere is Power in the Union,\u201d and for three minutes it feels like it still does. The billionaire values represented by the last presidential election may now lean toward a \u201cdog eat dog world,\u201d but the counter-culture values of \u201cI am my brother\u2019s keeper\u201d will have a voice and a guitar so long as a folk singer like Llewyn Davis can keep his union card and live by a higher calling.<\/p>\n

I am particularly proud to belong to American Federation of Musicians Local 47 due to its distinguished history of having broken the color line in the musicians\u2019 labor movement. On April 1, 1953, the previously segregated union Locals 47 and 767 merged, setting the precedent for all other Locals throughout the Federation to end segregation. That is something to be proud of, since the modern civil rights movement had not really developed yet. This move toward integration grew out of the struggle within musicians ranks to be a trailblazer for social justice, going back to Benny Goodman in the 1930s being the first major orchestra leader to integrate his orchestra, and Columbia Records\u2019 John Hammond in 1938 creating a major integrated concert at the Hollywood Bowl, \u201cFrom Spirituals to Swing,\u201d that demonstrated the development of modern music out of the African-American slave spirituals and assembled cutting-edge performers like blues artist Big Bill Broonzy and jazz clarinetist and big band leader Benny Goodman on the same stage to tell that story in the most meaningful way possible: through the music itself. The labor movement, personified by AFM Local 47, put its professional stamp on this movement to reflect the reality of American music that had always been integrated at the grassroots, even when musicians unions remained segregated. By integrating the labor movement for musicians, AFM Local 47 led the way in creating a union that looked like America\u2014a long way from those sorry days in the south when Billie Holiday couldn\u2019t stay or eat at the same hotels as her white bands conducted by Lester Young and Artie Shaw. However, Shaw notably persevered in insisting that she stand on the same stage as the band\u2014which southern hotels pointedly tried to stop. Musicians\u2014in keeping with H.D. Thoreau\u2019s tempo\u2014marched to the beat of a different drum, and it led to de facto integration and eventually integrated unions as well. AFM Local 47 was the first.<\/p>\n

Of all the official union bookings I have had through the years the most surprising and gratifying occurred during the presidential campaign last year, when they hosted candidate Bernie Sanders to speak in the union\u2019s parking lot in support of Prop 61: regulating drug prices for the sake of the working poor who often had to choose between buying their medications and food for themselves and their family. They asked me to open for Bernie with a set of labor and union songs.<\/p>\n

Oh you can\u2019t scare me, I\u2019m sticking to the union<\/em>
\nSticking to the union<\/em>
\nSticking to the union<\/em>
\nOh you can\u2019t scare me, I\u2019m sticking to the union<\/em>
\nSticking to the union<\/em>
\n\u2019Til the day I die.<\/em><\/p>\n

Woody\u2019s song filled up the parking lot, and I got to shake hands with Bernie after the set\u2014the same Bernie Sanders who, as Mayor of Burlington, Vermont, had once recorded his own album of classic protest songs!<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what my union card means to me, and why I continue to proudly pay my dues: Solidarity Forever!<\/p>\n

\n

What does your union card mean to you? Let us know! overture@afm47.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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[UPDATE JANUARY 2019]:<\/strong> This article, published in the Fall 2017 issue of Overture Magazine,\u00a0received an\u00a0Honorable Mention<\/a> in the 2018 Media Awards contest of the International Labor Communications Association. Congratulations and thanks to Dr. Altman\u00a0for your dedicated membership and willingness to share your union pride!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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