WHAT HE DID.
Thus the Sydney "Sun": — "Wot did you do in the great war, father ?"■'.. . :
Broken Hill Bill looked up from the latest edition of the "Bolshevik Banner." ■ :
"I.done a Jot of things," he said. "I went on'strike eight times in the four years it was on, I 'ooted the soldierrf wot wont to. the war,. I called 'era six-bob-a-day murderers, I sung ' The . Red Flag' near 200 times, I voted No, I voted in the ballot agin' recruitin', I. got knocked out twice by returned soldiers, and on peace day I Rent a vote of condolence with the Germans, and waved a red flag for <?icht 'hours without chargin' overtime.
" An' now you 'nvo tho 'ide to fisk me wot I- done in the great war ■ Yon ?ust bring me the atra.p !"
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9476, 13 December 1918, Page 7
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