Steve Jones:  John Handcox, an African-American working for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union in the 1930's, took the old gospel hymn, Roll the Chariots On, and made it a union song, “Roll the Union On.”  He was hounded by anti-union vigilantes and forced to leave Arkansas in the late 30's.   While living in San Diego , he somehow got "re-discovered" in 1980 and was brought out to a Labor Arts Exchange in Washington , DC .  He shared several old union songs he wrote that have become regulars on the picket line, like "There Are Mean Things Happening in this Land."

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