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Strike by Chinese Shearers (1894)

THE SHEARING DIFFICULTY.
CHINESE SHEARERS' STRIKE.
[SPECIAL CABLE--COPYRIGHT.]
SYDNEY, Thursday.
The latest phase of the shearing difficulty is a strike of Chinese shearers.
The Warrah station, in the Moree district, has been shearing with the Chinese,
and last week the manager of the station engaged three non-unionist Europeans.
The Chinese at once struck work, and the whites had lo be discharged before they
would resume work.

Notes

From the Tasmanian Newspaper The Daily Telegraph p. 3.

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