King Of Scabs

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Across a picket line
A man with no loyalty walked
Down into the mines
Because his honour had been bought

And over bodies he would step
To line his bank account
While other men's families
Learned to go without

1887 at Nanaimo #1
An explosion killed 148
Men condemned to die by conditions in the mines
Trying to put food on their plates

On broken strikes and broken backs
The king built his castle
And he paid a pittance for the lives
Lost deep down below

Halfway to hell at the morning bell, into the mines for coal
While the king of scabs clawed wages back
From high in his castle

The men got locked out of the mines
For talk of a better wage
Robert's greed and Robert's pride
Would see them all as slaves

Hired thugs and police
Harassed the picket lines
Until men accepted starvation wages
In collapsing mines

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released July 14, 2018

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