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        Listed under:  Economics and business  >  Work (Labour)  >  Occupations (Work)  >  Shearers
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        Troopers protecting non-union labour during the Shearers' Strike, 1891

        • TLF-IDR8001

        This is a black-and-white photograph of 121 armed officers and men of the Townsville Mounted Infantry escorting about 60 non-unionist shearers, known as 'blacklegs' or 'scabs', to Hughenden Station on 22 April 1891 during the central Queensland Shearers' Strike. Several crowded 'German' wagons follow, some containing more ...

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        Troopers at Dagworth Station, c1894

        • TLF-IDR8002

        This is a black-and-white photograph of a group of nine men, some uniformed, standing in front of a large corrugated iron shed on Dagworth Station north-west of Winton, possibly during the 1894 Shearers' Strike. Three are uniformed troopers, while the other six men could be station workers, shearers or even owners. The ...

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        Freed unionist shearers following the 1891 Shearers' Strike, 1893

        • TLF-IDR8000

        This is a black-and-white poster showing 13 shearers who had been jailed in 1891 during the central Queensland Shearers' Strike. Across the top of the poster, in large letters, is printed 'FREEDOM WITHOUT DISHONOUR' and 'UNIONIST PRISONERS'. The poster goes on to identify each man individually as having been sentenced at ...

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