WORK OR FIGHT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12406, 26 August 1918, Page 4

WORK OR FIGHT.

(By WALT MASON.)

1 Work or fight,” I sa.y with Crowder ! Man must earn his chowder, or secure a gun and powder, shooting from the Hun the slaw; for the husky hoya are needed where the farmers’ fields are seeded; long we’ve argued and wo’ye pleaded, now we’re laying down the law. Soon the harvest will "be yellow. and we’ll hear the farmers bellow for tho able-bodied fellow who can handle sheaves of wheat; and the who is standing, chunks of elocution handing to the public should bo landing in the country with ,both feet. Long the loafers have been petted, fed and lodged by men who sweated for the roubles they have netted, but the day of wrath is come; toil and wounds where battle rages—work at home for honest wages! Work, abhorred by them for agesl These confront the vag., and bum. From their squalid haunt and haven, frowsy, fragrant and unshaven, t 0 the fields where crops are wavin’ ’twill be good to see them go; from the joint and poolhall riven, unanointed and unshriven; ’twill fi r -e to see them driven where the big bu lthistles grow. Work or fight 1 O words inspiring! Work with energy untiring, for our country is requiring everything our hands can bring; if we feel too punk for mowing, if we are not built for hoeing, we can go where blood is flowing, and run down the Teuton king.