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Pat Shannon, born Patrick Bowe in 1928 in Melbourne Victoria, was best known as secretary of the notorious Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union, known colloquially as the Painters and Dockers Union.

Despite not pulling the trigger, notorious gangster and hitman Billy "The Texan" Longley was found guilty of the 1973 murder of union secretary Pat Shannon, shot at the Druids Hotel in South Melbourne.

The murder of Shannon, along with other alleged crimes associated with the Painters and Dockers, led to the Costigan Royal Commission into the union. Shannon was succeeded as union secretary by Jack "Putty Nose Nicholls, who when asked why it had been so difficult to identify the trigger men for the murder, declared We catch and kill our own.

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1. ^ https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/killin-on-the-dock-of-the-bay-20120524-1z7v6.html Cite error: The named reference "druids" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
2. https://art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/resources/video/richard-lewer-on-brian-the-skull-murphy-and-billy-the-texan-longley

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