1978年9月6日,美国著名流行歌曲作者,工人诗人吉姆·加兰(Jim Garland)在华盛顿逝世,终年七十三岁。吉姆·加兰生于美国肯塔基城的一个信仰基督教的农民家庭,其父曾在煤矿做工,是那时的秘密工会团体“劳动骑士团”和“联合统一矿工”的组织者,母亲在饥饿中死去。加兰十二岁就去煤矿干活,在矿上参加了工人组织,后 On September 6, 1978, Jim Garland, a famous American pop songwriter and worker poet, died in Washington DC at the age of seventy-three. Jim Garland was born in Kentucky, the United States, a Christian family of peasants, his father worked in coal mines, was the secret trade union groups at that time, “Knights of the Knights” and “United unified miners” organizers, Mother dies in hunger. At the age of twelve, Garland went to work in coal mines, joined the workers’ organization at the mine