The 28 March 1914 issue of the IWW magazine Solidarity printed a poem by James P. Hayes. Addressed to "Mr. Sky Pilot," the poem summed up the Wobblies' attack on the complacency of the Christian churches.

They Have Not Where to Lay Their Head

When you've lauded all the captains

who rule the ship of might,
And exhorted all your hearers to
walk the path of right,
Here's another text I give —
the gospel of the cross,
Go feed and clothe the naked! Go
Seek the one that's lost!

His name? Their names are legion:
their names you never knew;
You passed them by in silent scorn,
to reach the chosen few;
For what avails the homage of the
lowly, hungry mass:They have no viands to feed you, no
wines to fill your glass?

But a...