"BIRDS O' RED FEATHER."

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1928, 10 December 1913, Page 6

"BIRDS O' RED FEATHER."

A BALLAD OF THE STRIKE. I"By Wi.] i There's Semple, and Hickey, and Toung, Payne And Webb—all Birds of a Feather, (Their Trado is tho Wag o' th' Tongue, And the colling of "Sheep" together. Red Hag, Gift o' th' Gab, -vain and empty Blether. Think for yourselves! Yo Sons of Guns! Don't follow the Birds o' Bed Feather! Strike if yo like, hut seo that you'ro right. When yo answer tho Call: "All together!" There's the missus and kids, tip tho town, In poverty, all this lino weather; Jor Dad's had to throw his tools down. And his leg has been roped to tho Tether. Bert Bag, Gift o' th' Gab, vain and empty Blether. Think for yourselves! Ye Sons of Guns! Don't follow the Birds o' Ited Feather! Strike if yo like, hut seo that you'ro right, When yc answer tho Call: "All together!" There's a broken Agreement to mend 'TV=ed to Bell," by their fat-headed Blether. &T>d there's nothintr, mv Lads, at tho End When they'vo travelled the length of their Tether. Sed Bit. Gift o' th' Gab, yoin and emnty Bletlior. Think for yourselves! To Sons of Guns! Don't follow the Birds o' Pert Feather! Strike if yo like, but see that you're right, When ye answer the Call: "All together !" At a meeting of the Mastorton County Council yesterday a resolution was passed, commending the Government for tho action it had taken to maintain law and order in the industrial crisis, and also commending the settlors for their prompt response to the appeal for assistance.