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Casey Jones—the Union Scab

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The song is not historically accurate: Casey Jones was an active, dues-paying member of two labor unions (the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers) that both paid out life insurance to his widow.
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in 1912. The song was included in a 2006 album of American folk songs "Classic Labor Songs from Smithsonian Folkways" released by the
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