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Notes Patrick Francis Shannon better known as Pat Shannon was head of the notorious Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union in Melbourne, Australia, until he was murdered in 1973 in Australia during Melbourne's waterfront war.

The painters and dockers were the outlawed bikies of their time and back in May 1972, the underlying tension would explode in the front bar of the Druids Hotel in South Melbourne.

The target would be the influential union chief Pat Shannon.

Shannon had achieved some notoriety when he tried to placate growing community unrest about the P & D violence, which had spilled into public areas.

Shannon had publicly declared: "Remember, no stray bullet or bomb has harmed a non unionist.''

His lame comment was widely greeted with derision and was seen as more of an attempt to distract the public attention away from the vicious and deadly battle being waged for control of Australia's most corrupt union.

A year later, Patrick Francis Shannon's words would unexpectedly ring hollow when 11-year-old Nicholas Kolovrat was killed by a stray bullet while drinking lemonade with his father in the Moonee Valley Hotel.

The April 1973 target was painter and docker and minor crim, Laurence Chamings.