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Issue No. 127 | 08 March 2002 |
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Power Plays
Interview: Still Flying Women: Suffrage or Suffering Industrial: No Coco Pops For Brenda Unions: Back to the Heartland Activists: Getting to the Point International: Push Polling Economics: Debt Defaulters Poetry: Those Were the Days Review: Black Hawk Dud Satire: Fox-Lew Launch Rescue Bid for Beta Video
The Soapbox The Locker Room Week in Review Tool Shed
 How to Beat the BanksCollins Goes Cahill
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Letters to the Editor Collins Goes Cahill
Dear Sir,
Only a fool would disagree with the declarations and protestations by Comrade Rowan Cahill, as he attempted to unpack the lie of an impotent Union movement.
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Unfortunately his truths are as thin as a new generation Durex which had been pasted on with a glue the consistency of flour and spit, and they are as illusory as the "Phantom True Blue", labour voters in Western Sydney.
Indicative by his rhetoric , Comrade Rowan has definitely read that classic by Dale Carnegie "How to win friend and Influence People", with his picturesque, if somewhat derogatory description of not only myself, but my family and neighbours, "the slippery, amorphic, shadowy "Aspirational voters" and "I "refer, to not , the "figments of a Paranoid imagination", but to those Australians who don't want more of the "Collective Lamington" for their families than they themselves had , they just want a share.
Well Rowan, as I said I agree , and I don't think that the Union Movement is a spent force, as I have repeatedly stated over many years, it is very similar to our natural environment , where before a regeneration is possible the fruit of the old must suffer the fate of fire...
At sedition such as this, can you not feel the tremors of the "Socialist Aristocracy", those in whose presence we must genuflect, those families which have been weaned from cradle to grave on the teat of public benevolence for generations? I need not cry out the names of the culprits, for, even if we deny their nakedness, we all know who they are, as they busily orchestrate their gaggle of rabble in defence of their own barricaded citadels, and every now and then sacrificing a burnt offering to placate that angry and vengeful God "The Electorate".
I can recall a Brother, at a Union Branch meeting actually calling for the destruction of the Union structure, to enable a strong uncorrupted foundation to be built on integrity, solidarity, and brotherhood, not on cronyism, nepotism and incest. It is often stated by sycophants on the bludge, that, "If it isn't broken, then don't fix it. Well, both Vehicles for Australian socialist politics are not only broken, the wheels have fallen off, and they have been stripped by their leaders and dumped in the wasteland, in anticipation of the vandals destroying the testimony to the stain of guilt on those that would lay claim to statesmanship. As for explaining how a de-unionized ALP would function without the comfort zone of Unions. Financial Contributions and the election time holidays for the paid Union Officials, this is no different than the infant who has soiled its diaper. If you have ever had experience with this, you will notice there is no crying or tantrums, until the diaper is changed. Because the infant in its innocence is happy sitting in the soft, warm and odorous diaper, unlike the parasitical insatiable political tapeworm whose natural environment is writhing in the remains of Human defecation.
As for the reference to "Collectivism" being regarded as "Old Fashioned", I think not. It has been the perverse use of this gift of community "Collectivism" and "Solidarity", given by the people, and misused by those they pay to represent their interests. It is the entrenchment of those who gained positions of influence, not through meritocracy, but through the penchant for camaraderie by those who had dropped the portcullis on workers fleeing from the Tory Terrorists and then assumed pontifical tenure ensuring this, by surrounding themselves with greedy little useless bastards, while the workers starved outside the gates of castle "Trade Union".
The end result being, as that old ALP stalwart Richo says "The mob always find you out" , and why would one not serve a benevolent master rather than be a serf to your own servant. To do otherwise would be madness....
Rowan claims that trade Union membership is growing in the U.K... I agree. But he offers no explanation.
Well, as one who has many links in the U.K..., I can confidently share the information that it has been predominately through the efforts of New Labor, and only after the purging of the Old Guard and the useless flotsam which trails the Banana Boats as they head out to the North Sea to dump their loads.
The template is there, and with little or no modification it will work for us too! As for the dinosaur/trade union metaphor being a political device originated in some corporate padded think tank, I think not?
I have for quite some time now frequented places other than those of employment, including several of our educational institutions, and the prevalent thought among those that are not indifferent to Unions, is definitely an attitude of hostility to and their unusual and undemocratic behaviors.
While I attempt to disabuse these neophytes , of their mindset , I cannot alter the truth ,and although it is my belief, that it is not the philosophy of Trade Unionism, its promulgated purpose, or that it is the majority of members that are iniquitous and who behave heinously with a tacit impunity, my personal experiences are in some cases very spiritual and uplifting, and in fact, I am constantly reminded of Jesus, when he received the identifying kiss on the cheek from (James), no it was Judas, to indicate to the Pharisees whom they were to arrest. This is commonly called "the kiss of Caiaphas ".
I've had my spray, now I leave Comrade Cahill, with another truism to get on with:
"Always, there are different ways of looking at the same thing ... We can regret that rose-bushes have thorns or, we can rejoice that thorn-bushes have roses."
Yours in solidarity Joseph Furphy... Tom Collins PS: As for the Mardi gras, about ten years ago I put forward a suggestion at a "City", "Joint Consultative Committee "meeting that we participate in the Mardi Gras, but that's another story, for another day..
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