LIbrary hosting 'Load sixteen tons, and what do you get'

From Havre-Hill County Library

The Havre-Hill County Library will host the Montana Conversation program “Load Sixteen Tons, And What Do You Get?” with Bill Rossiter Tuesday at 7 p.m.

From “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” to “Take This Job and Shove It,” Americans have sung about work, whether they’re nine-to-fivers or dawn-to-duskers. The songs from union halls, mines, fields, factories, picket lines and jail cells are the sound-track to an important part of American history, and they can still stir us. As one old-timer put it, “The boss had all the money, but we ha...