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By Jack Joseph Smith

I was a foreigner Now switched out of power When a young student of archecture on adventure Spoke up in measure "On the murder of Mam, we must make a pledge to work no more for these bums of men: For to now bucket up this bloody dung, would fell our memory into cowards hell to tell!" Thus made was a pact as a last stand Issuing frenzy into the erie beating beasts of Mam-- While the young student man with feminine limbs yet a face likened to the red burning blotches given from the scorch of a fire wind And I stood by While remembering now saving him from homosexual scorn When two nights back He had held the drunken seamen in a trance As he dared do a modern jazz dance Yet as we emerged from the monsterous clubs that diehard ended Mam's breathing It was his thin freckled acne face that was leading While up in the Captain's quarters That Captain of giant proportions Replied to the Mate with the orders, "we'll cut off their food for starters." But they hadn't noted the chief engineer Who knew the world through an eternal sneer And had broken his last Captain's back over the starboard side rail And this time still sure to another tale gave no slack As he announced, that to see us through would continue a jolly fine way to be true And that we must not fail Gave push to our gale While the student man's eyes Seemed set sail on a smile as he said, "and when we reach port, I will get off the mail to the Cidney Times, for mine is that sort of sport making promise of revolution in the Union"

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A student calls for refusing shipboard work after Mam's killing. The captain threatens to withhold food, while the engineer supports the protest and the student plans to write to the press.

The speaker connects the student's speech with a memory of defending the student from the seamen's scorn. The account includes officers' orders, the engineer's violence and the protesters' pact.


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The pact after Mam's death. A 'young student of archecture' urges the men to 'work no more for these bums of men', the speaker recalls 'saving him from homosexual scorn', and the Captain answers 'we'll cut off their food for starters.' The page ends with the student's promise to send mail 'to the Cidney Times', 'making promise of revolution in the Union'.

The student becomes the moral leader of a small labor revolt, and the chief engineer's support gives it force. The speaker presents the revolt as both protest and theater.