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All successful leaders and business men have the enduring capacity to stand the gaff.
Then spoke their chief official (who would grace our service here) As he mocked the suffering children with a laugh; "From these angry, cursing miners we have nothing now to fear, For I'm positive they cannot stand the gaff.
Prompted by the phrase "they can't stand the gaff," the poem castigates the company for its treatment of its workers.
Wallace The Workers Child Thomas Campbell Bread and Roses Joseph Oppenheim The Battle of Glace Bay Lloyd Roberts Can You Stand the Gaff Patrick Owney They Can't Stand the Gaff "E.
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