What Have You Done For Britain?

Wanganui Chronicle, 30 September 1947, Page 4

What Have You Done For Britain?

(In Reply to “J.G.”) What have I done for Britain? What have I done this day? I’ve gone on strike and I won’t hew coal till I get fantastic pay! Someone will send those parcels to me, Some of those suckers from oversea ; ’Twill help me go my own sweet way And prove who is bo’s s in Britain today. What have I done for Britain? What have I done this day? I’ve joined the Smithfield strikers, who won’t let the meat. away. We don’t care two hoots if the nation starves When we want our way we don't do things by halves; We're using the Crisis to get our own way, For we are the power in Britain today. What have I done for Britain? What have I done this day? I’ve gone on a sympathy miners’ strike. To cripple production that way. We’ve lost quite a million tons or more. Which represent exports and dollars galore: It’s nothing to us if the nation's at bay, Well sabotage effort in Britain today. What have I done for Britain? What have I done this day? I’ve come to this firm resolution—il isn’t sufficient to pray. Let everyone get diiwft to solid hard work, And sweep aside strikers and others who shirk; Let us show that the spirit of Marlborough’s day Is alive in the Empire and Britain today. • “Ha,v.->ee<‘l. "