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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 ...
After the 1890 Australian maritime dispute and the 1891 Australian shearers' strike both of which were long, drawn out affairs in which trade unions were defeated, running out of funds, actions by increasingly militant and desperate unions led up to perhaps the most violent shearers' strike, in 1894. [2] [3] Particularly due to falling wool ...
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 ...
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]
Total Australian war expenditure was £2,949,380,000 and at its peak in 1942–43, military costs accounted for 40.1 percent of national income. [222] In the months after the war, Australian authorities were responsible for administering all of Borneo and the NEI east of Lombok until the British and Dutch colonial governments were re-established.
1973 Mount Newman strike, 17-day strike by miners in Newman, Western Australia. [16] 1973 Revlon strike, strike by Revlon cosmetics workers in Rydalmere, New South Wales, over changes in working conditions meant to speed up production. [17] [18] 1973 Sydney Airport strike, 5-week strike by communications workers at Sydney Airport. [19] [20]
1891 saw the Great Shearers' Strike at Barcaldine lead to the formation of the Australian Labor Party. The issue in the strike was whether employers were entitled to use non-union labour. There were troops and police called in, some sheds were fired, and there were mass riots. There was a second shearers' strike in 1894.
In 1886, the shearers began to organise themselves, [1] following a strike that had started at Wellshot Station and spread to surrounding properties. [2] The Queensland Shearers Union was formed at Blackall in 1887. [3] By 1890, the union represented almost three thousand workers, [4] and 3,721 were registered by the end of the year. [5]