Re: Just Ambling My Way Home...
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Originally Posted by cashman
(Post 1077571)
Ah that explains yer mentality.:rolleyes::D
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No I had a very good reason cashy, When I was young I used to go with my father to Union meetings when he went to pay his dues at a place on Cannon Street, he used to take the dues for all his workmates too and he would stop for the meeting, he was a good and dedicated trade unionist. That is until he had a bad accident at work, he lost a finger, the problem was that the firm he worked for went into liquidation and were not insured. My father contacted the trade union and they told him they weren't prepared to help, seems about right. Well I must have been about seven at the time and during the summer holidays my father asked me if I wanted to go a walk with him, so we set of down Union Road, along Moscow Mill St then on Pickup Street, Charter Street onto factory bottom, to Highams Mill, right at the far end was the maintenance Joiners shop where Ken Edmonson worked, he was the local Union Rep. That day was the first time I heard my father use words of one syllable, he told Mr Edmondson exactly where he could stick his union card and precisely which shelf he could put it on. Now when I see numpties like Bob Crow on salaries larger than the Prime Minister, I think I made a good decision to shun the Unions like my father did all those years ago:rolleyes: |
