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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=561741" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lines On The Australian Dock Dispute (98)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My sympathy is not with the sacked Australian wharfies<br>Compared to most others they are overpaid<br>The old tired fight the bosses versus the workers<br>On the Australian docks is once again replayed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And my sympathy is not with Chris Corrigan of Patrick Stevedores<br>He sacked one thousand four hundred of his men<br>Because they all were members of a Trade Union<br>Is union membership nowadays a sin? .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But least of all my sympathies are not with the Australian Government<br>They only seek to conquer and divide<br>They are the greatest culprits in this conflict<br>But soon their fate the people will decide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can feel sympathy for farmers and exporters and importers<br>They are between a rock and a hard place<br>This power struggle is going to cost them millions<br>This dock dispute an Australian disgrace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But for the farm leaders I don't have any sympathy<br>For siding with the Government against the M.U.A.<br>They should have known that those who take sides in disputes<br>Win or lose will have some price to pay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perhaps the wharfies should have accepted their substantial redundancies<br>Although 'twould seem that they've not been treated fair<br>But my sympahies are with the lower paid workers<br>And the forgotten people on welfare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as for the Government elected by the people<br>For taking sides in disputes they were not empowered<br>And history will not look on them too kindly<br>Especially those two Reith and Johnny Howard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the WIK issue the Government had shown their true colours<br>They only seek to conquer and divide<br>But they were not elected for to be divisive<br>And the Australian people on their fate will soon decide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And since the wharfies by the Federal Court are re-instated<br>Their jubilation with them I can't share<br>I see them as the privileged class of workers<br>And my sympathies will always be elsewhere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Millions of dollars have been squandered on court battles<br>Between Patrick Stevedores and the M.U.A.<br>And poor Australia is the biggest loser<br>And barristers and judges getting wealthier by the day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The likes of St Vincent De Paul and the Salvation Army<br>With the squandered millions could do quite a lot<br>They could help out the less privileged and needy<br>The people by this government forgot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q>
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Compared to most others they are overpaid
The old tired fight the bosses versus the workers
On the Australian docks is once again replayed.

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