Liberty Hall

House or workers,
Hall of trades,
Peoples' Palace,
an idea wrought in stone
and blood and struggle.

If those stones could attest,
what stories they could tell --
deals done and done deals,
bitter infighting, and solidarity,
always and forever, solidarity.

Here walk the shadows of
brothers and sisters --
comrades long gone,
who led the way,
who fought the fight.

Some are memorialised
on the walls -- their struggles,
whether the battles of labour
or serving the flag in
far off fields, are honoured.

But their true memorial
is to follow
in their footsteps
dream their dream
complete their work.

Bill Anderson

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