Pat Mullaly

DESCRIPTION: "There's Pat Mullaly who never kept tally, He would work a mule's work to get two men's pay"; the other workers write a letter to try to make him stop. "We'll combine, the union join, And work eight hours a day... and then they'll raise our pay"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1938 (Korson-PennsylvaniaSongsAndLegends)
KEYWORDS: mining labor-movement worker
FOUND IN:
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Korson-MinstrelsOfTheMinePatch, p. 232, "Pat Mullaly" (1 short text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Muff Lawler, the Squealer" [Laws E32] (subject: the Long Strike and the Molly Maguires) and references there
NOTES [29 words]: Korson lumps this in with songs of "The Long Strike," and I suspect he is right. For background, see "The Long Strike" and especially "Muff Lawler, the Squealer" [Laws E32]. - RBW
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File: KMMP232

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