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Australian Labor Difficulties
Bullard, J. E. | November 13, 1890 issue

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This article discusses about labor difficulties and strikes at present prevailing through all the Australasian colonies. Comprehension of the conditions under which laborers have been laboring, gives a better understanding of their demands. Every class of labor has its union, with laws more rigidly enforced than the criminal code of any existing government. A member becomes a unionist first, a citizen afterwards. The immense power of these organizations over their members has but lately been strained to its fullest extent. Union of the ship-shearers is one such union. The arbitrary character of its rules leads many sheep-owners to employ only shearers who are not members of the union, and it raised the alarm among unions.

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STRIKES & lockouts; LABOR unions; RULES; LABOR union members; UNSKILLED labor; AUSTRALIA
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