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3 crap could be cut out from the present editions to make room for something better. Even some new songs by American rebell [sic] groups could easely [sic] qualify for your proposed new improved edition. The correction in the Red Flag is appreciated I mean the line which now reads -- "Chicago swells its surging "song" should read "surging throng" instead. The fourth verse as rendered in the IWW song book is intirely different in my English I.L.P. song book. There it reads "It well recalls the triumphs past/ It gives the hope of peace at last/ The banner bright, the symbol plain/ Of human right and human gain." There has been a great deal of doctoring up of socialist songs in the past not all of it improving on the authors. Eugene Pottier would not be able to recognize his L'Internationale were he alife [sic] today. This brings me to the point that Joe Hills line "the ends the means are justifying" could also be doctored up to conform more closely to our hearts desire. Well, best of luck to (over)