THE MEDAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 71, 23 March 1912, Page 12

THE MEDAL.

[Mr. Coyne said they would probably strike a medal to commemorate, the etrike. — Brisbane Courier,] So he thinks, does'Arry Coyne, we'll be likely to forget All tho 'ardship, and the pinohin', and the load that's on us yet Of the debts that piled about us when the Strike had got us down, And had left us limp and stranded in the streets o' Brisbane town; 'And he thinks v little bauble to- commemorate that same Would be welcomed by tho battlers thai; was ruined by the game; But he needn't go a-frettin' and a-wastin' of a tear, For the men who worried through As our leaders bade us dp, < \ They'll remember all their p'inahin', with. out medals, 'Arry dear. Yes! tho chap that wandered worklesa and that heard his kiddieß sob, When they felt th& touoh o' hunger through their daddy's vanished job; And the loyal son o' Labour who put up with bitter loes, | Though he 'adn't 'arf a shadow of a quarrel with his boss; And the gals who left the fact'ry with tho curious little plea _ _ , That their leavin 1 was a livin* proof of '^Solidarity," And the thousand wives who came within an inch o' ruin sheer, When they reckon up the sooro And the bitter fight is o'er, They'll not want a medal help 'em to remember, 'Arry dear. If th« workers have a battle that they're forced to light, with Fat, Can they win it if their Leaders have no bruins beneath their hat? Can they win it if they butt out in their • imbecility In tho iitummick of tho public as their greatest enemy V Can they hop/) to win a battle if they c>turt it. with a spell Of kiokin' at the very folks as always wished 'cdi .well 1 Can they win it if their allies are the first to feel the spear? Oh, the black stupidity ! You may take.it, friend, from me, Thoy'll remember, without medals, what they've boon through, 'Arry dear. PHILANDER F. — Sydney Bulletin. (Queensland).