Cuddy

Red Cuddy
They called him.
Strike leader,
Miner,
In the starving 20`s.

Stoned by his own
As the hunger bit.

Black-listed
By the owners,
Rat-catcher
To the council.

"Worse vermin on two legs"
He told me once.

A red rose
Blooms lonely
On his
Unmarked plot.