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Shearers' Strike Manifesto, 1891. The 1891 shearers' strike is credited as being one of the factors for the formation of the Australian Labor Party. On the 9 September 1892 the Manifesto of the Queensland Labour Party was read out under the well known Tree of Knowledge at Barcaldine following the Great Shearers' Strike. [4] The State Library of ...
The Wide Comb dispute was a landmark Australian industrial dispute. Australian sheep shearers, represented by the Australian Workers' Union, opposed the alteration of the Federal Pastoral Industry Award to allow the use of shearing equipment that used combs wider than 2.5 inches. [1]
The most famous incident during the strike was the burning and sinking of the steamer Rodney, which was transporting non-union labour up the Darling River. When the boat was moored in a swamp 23 miles (37 km) above Pooncarie , a few miles above the Moorara shearing shed , unionists boarded, took control, offloaded all passengers, then soaked ...
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
1971 strike by seven rugby players against playing in the Australian national team during the Apartheid-era tour by the all-white South African Springboks. [8] 1973 ABC strike, strike by women script assistants at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. [9] [10] 1973 Broadmeadows Ford strike, strike at the Broadmeadows Assembly Plant. [11] [12 ...
1891 Australian shearers' strike; C. Cotton pickers' strike of 1891; F. Fusillade de Fourmies; M. Morewood massacre; S. Shearers' Strike Camp Site, Barcaldine
The Shearers' Strike Camp Site was the focus of the 1891 Shearers' Strike, a confrontation between capital and labour that was a major event in Queensland's history. The strike was a watershed in the development of organised representation of labour in Australia and the formation of the Australian Labor Party. [1]
Wage cuts were introduced for everyone in the maritime industry, with wage cuts of up to 30 per cent. The defeat of the 1890 maritime strike and the 1891 Australian shearers' strike, laid the framework for the Australian labour movement entry into parliamentary politics. The New South Wales Labour Defence Committee summed up the union's mood in ...