International Marxist Group Archive

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Ode to Gavin Laird

Scottish Socialist No. 5, May–June 1977 · p. 13 of the scan · 69 words

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[page 13]

Scottis: Socialist takes great pleasure in printing the following poem by a member of the AUEW delegation at Rothesay; the author, for obvious reasons, must remain anonymous.

They came down to Congress, To lay the "Contract dead, To end the wage restrictions. That's hanging on our head.

But at the prelim meeting, And to their dying shame, The officials wouldn't let them vote, Lord Carron rides again!

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