942440
- TitleWool dray, George Street, Sydney, September 1890 / photographer unknown
- Call numberSPF/3387
- Level of descriptionfonds
- Date
September 1890 - Type of material
- Reference code942440
- Physical Description1 photographic print - albumen - 7.4 x 9.9 cm
- ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
Series of massive national strikes, beginning in August 1890 with the maritime unions and supported by coal miners, transport and agricultural workers, and followed by a shearers' strike in 1891. The strikes were both defeated, after military and police intervention, and large pay cuts ensued. The defeat led to the entry of the Labor Party into parliamentary politics.
Reference:
Dictionary of Sydney. http://www.dictionaryofsydney.org/ (accessed August 31, 2011) - Scope and ContentSPF / 3385 - SPF / 3390 are photographs of the trolley of wool drays, escorted by armed police from Darling Harbour along Hay, George and Pitt Streets to Circular Quay during the maritime and shearers' strike, to the jeers of the watchers
Reference:
"Latest about the Strike" in The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser [newspaper], Saturday 20 September 1890 - Copying ConditionsOut of copyright: Created before 1955
- General note
Transferred from SPF / Wool -- Transport (BM), August 2011 - Subject
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