Sympathetic Strikes and Sympathetic Lockouts (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Sympathetic Strikes and Sympathetic Lockouts (Classic Reprint) written by Fred; S. Hall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sympathetic Strikes and Sympathetic Lockouts Two conventions met in Sydney, Australia, in the month of September, 1890. One represented the interests of almost all the organized labor of the continent, while at the other council sat the controllers of its several largest indus tries.i A strike was in progress, but not a strike of the ordinary type. Thousands of men in all parts of the island, some even in New Zealand and Tasmania,2 had refused to work until justice, as they regarded it, should be done to a few marine officers involved in a dispute with their employ ers. Trade lines had disappeared. Sailors, sheep-shearers, miners, cooks, stewards, stokers and dockers, all stood side by side in their great struggle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.