SHEARERS' DIFFICULTY
+ (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION ) Sydney, August 16. A shearing difficulty is reported at Brokong station, where the shearers have severely maltreated the station hands who refused to join the Union. The place is in a state of siege. Two thousand pounds of ammunition have been sent up. The police are powerless to interfere. A large body of police, fully armed, have been despatched to Brokong, the station where the serious difficulty has occurred among the shearers, A number of shearers belonging to the Union have seized several non-unionists and hold them as prisoners.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1921, 17 August 1888, Page 2
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94SHEARERS' DIFFICULTY Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1921, 17 August 1888, Page 2
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