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Promises made & broken--
NO SCABS--& yet here they come
Flooding in
Smoldering white tents
Hired guns
Perched on top of coal black hills
Death special--
Gatling gun mounted on automobile
Striker\'s colony reduced to corpses
Huddled in muddy pits
Rockefeller owns this country
Owns law
Owns life
President sends out troops
To restore order--
The quiet that follows
A massacre
Opposition peters out
The \"worker\'s right to work\"
Has triumphed
Negotiations peace talks
(Must be easy-going when the terms
Are cast as unpitying ashes onto
Shabby coffins)
No recognition
Slaves descend the shafts
Still under yoke & whip
The papers have little or nothing to say
A commission compiles its report
Buries the suffering in testimonials
Consoles the public
Convinces them--
This is an inconsequential
Isolated
Incident in history
No need to feel compassion
No need to remember