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Today’s Labor Quote: Merle Travis

9/11/2019

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

From his song "16 Tons"; Travis was a coal miner’s son

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