What the records say
- When
- 1894
- Kind
- Strike
- Coordinates
- 52.73° N, 122.45° W
Placed at the town its title names, Australian.
1894 Australian shearers' strike
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.
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