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source: The Shearers' Record newspaper Oct 15, 1889 AHS SITE SOURCE: SYDNEY FOLKLORE - SECTION 2: Labour History SHEARING TIMEThe shearing time has come again;The lads are rolling round. To seek a place in some good shed To earn an honest pound Most for work come every year They've formed, a union "band The price of labour to raise up All thro Australia's land But still there are some black legs On stations round, about Who signed against their fellow men And threw the Union out They are not man but paltry curs Who have not got the heart To go against the squatters But stop & "take his part" They could not screw their courage up To join the Union band It stands out for their lawful rights Which Union lads demand They're renegades & traitors Ashamed to show their faces To friends they've known for years & years Who'll brand them with disgrace No matter to what shed they go Though years may roll along They will be known by some of us Who'll expose them to the throng The time will come my bonny lads When the " Union " flag is strong Than those who now refuse to join Will discover right from wrong For well we know; that if we do Not have a Union Band The price of Labour must come down Through Australia's sunny land So roll up to the Union "boys Roll up one & all For though we're strong, we won't do wrong But "the weak shall go to the wall"
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