Poems for Workers (Gomez 1925)/Statistics

by Jim Waters

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Statistics

By Jim Waters.

I'm tired of listening to sun-shine talk,
This pie-in-the-sky stuff,
This travesty on patient toil;
Let the Jesus-screamers,
The open-shop artists,
And their ilk. . . .
Hook their fat necks over a flying emery wheel
For. . . . eight. . . . long. . . . hours;
And to the beat and whir of machinery,
"I work to get money toChant this:
"I work to get money to buy food to get strong,
So I can work to get money to buy food and get strong.". . .
Then, maybe, they will understand
Why the church pews are empty,
And men die for unionism.