The Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia was an early Australian trade union. It was formed in January 1887 with the amalgamation of the Wagga Shearers...
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Wales to form the Amalgamated Shearers Union of Australasia in 1887. In 1894 this union amalgamated with the General Labourers Union, which had formed...
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1890 Australian maritime dispute (category Maritime history of Australia)
others argue the depression of the 1890s did not start till 1892. In early July 1890, the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia issued a manifesto calling...
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William Spence (category Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia)
first president of the Australian Shearers' Union; he also became president of its successor, the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia in 1887, and...
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of the sheds and as their number and influence rose, many joined unions to campaign for better conditions. By 1890, the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of...
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attempts to reduce the shearing rate. By August 1889 it had close to three thousand members. The Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia was formed in 1887...
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AWUNZ entered NZ history in 1886 when the newly formed Amalgamated Shearers Union of Australasia sent three organisers to New Zealand to enrol members...
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Shearers Union Permanent & Casual Wharf Labourers Union of Australia Postal Supervisory Officers' Association Printing and Kindred Industries Union Professional...
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Shearers Union and Bourke Shearers Union to form the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia in January 1887. "TRADES MEETINGS". The Age. Victoria...
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Pastoralists' Union of New South Wales was formed in 1890 in response to the statement or threat by the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia (ASU) that...
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depths of the 1890s depression on 19 October 1891. The paper was jointly funded by the Wagga branches of the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia and...
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1894 in Australia (category Years of the 19th century in Australia)
Australian Workers' Union is formed from the joining of the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia and the General Labourers' Union. The novel Seven...
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age of eleven began working as a station-hand in western New South Wales. He joined the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia (which amalgamated to...
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Convent in Portland. Her father was an early member of the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia. She bore an illegitimate child in Melbourne in 1906...
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between the newly formed Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia and the squatters, which culminated in the 1891 Australian shearers' strike. However, the...
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David Temple (trade unionist) (category People from the Colony of Victoria)
January 1887, Temple's union merged with smaller shearers unions in New South Wales to form the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia with Temple as general...
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William Price (Australian politician) (category Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Western Australia)
Labourers Union of West Queensland. He moved to Forbes, New South Wales, a few years later, and filled a similar role for the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia...
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Ted Grayndler (category Sheep shearers)
droving, shearing and mining. Grayndler was a foundation member of the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia, which was subsequently amalgamated into...
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Billy Hughes (category Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia)
South Wales organising for the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia and then won the Electoral district of Sydney-Lang of the New South Wales Legislative...
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Alexander Poynton (category Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia)
president of the Creswick branch of the Amalgamated Miners' Association and in 1886 became the inaugural treasurer of the Amalgamated Shearers' Union of Australasia...
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1892 Broken Hill miners' strike (category History of Broken Hill)
decided to reconstitute the organisation as branch of the Amalgamated Miners' Association of Australasia. The branch was later transferred to Broken Hill...
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Amalgamated Workers Union formed in Queensland in December 1891, from a merger of the Queensland Shearers Union and the Queensland Labourer's Union, during the...
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Trade unions developed among shearers, miners, and stevedores (wharf workers), but soon spread to cover almost all blue-collar jobs. Shortages of labour...
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Corporation, 1986. ISBNÂ 0931787300. Robert Scheerer (director), Hannah Louise Shearer (writer): "The Price" (season 3, episode 8), Star Trek: The Next Generation...
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salvage of vessels at Duala Harry Kaye Cecil Fisher, of the Eastern Extension, Australasia and China Telegraph Company, for services to the Government of the...
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Federated Sawmill Employees Association v James Moore & Sons Pty Ltd (category High Court of Australia cases)
Dixon & Williams (eds), Ch 5 The Griffith Court by John M Williams. Amalgamated Society of Engineers v Adelaide Steamship Co Ltd (Engineers' Case) [1920] HCA...
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Organisation. Frederick Charles Fitzpatrick, Representative of the Amalgamated Engineering Union on the Admiralty Industrial Council and the Shipbuilding...
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the Army in the Commonwealth of Australia. Lionel Alfred George Hooke, Managing Director of Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia) Ltd. For services to the radio...
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Thomas Lafferty, Official (Construction Section, Northern Scotland), Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers. Roy Edward Langstone. For political service...
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