Lets Not Minimize the Role of Thugs

Music : Mathis der Maler: 2nd Movement (Grablegung). By Paul Hindemith. Sequenced by David Siu at Kunst der Fuge.

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Let’s not minimize the role of thugs And gangsters in the history of labor. Beasts and saints together weave the rugs On which we walk, and ordinary folk Rendering allegiance to whomever. Desperate now, the unions bear the yoke Abjectly of their presidents-for-life. Yet workers still must organize and strike.