THE QUEENSLAND SHEARERS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7179, 2 June 1891, Page 4

THE QUEENSLAND SHEARERS.

["from ouk own correspondent.! Melbourne, May 27. The Pastoral Association has been employed in engaging free labour, and the offices have been besieged by applicants. Considerably more labour is offering than is required. Sixty-six carriers who severed from the Union started loading at Barcaldine at the usual rates. The old Union, which commenced the policy of cutting down, has telegraphed to the Pastoralists' Association offering to carry at reduced rates. Forty of the military from Barcaldine, and thirty from Clermont, are returning home. Official information has been received that the free labourers employed at the Coreina Station struck work in consequence of the employment of two Unionists. They decided that until it was mutually agreed that there should be freedom of contract, they would not work with Unionists. As they were firm in their decision, the Manager was compelled to discharge the two men taken on. A Barcaldine telegram sayB :— A large camp of Unionists here will break up this week, and remove to a new site at Alice river. Meat and rations will be supplied wholesale at the camp, and paid for in cash received as strike pay. All Unionists are expected to join this camp, and when the remainder of the strikers arrive from Clermont there will be sixteen hundred Unionists in the camp. The money received from the south is reckoned sufficient to pay the weekly expenses, and there is not the least doubt that the men will remain quietly in camp so long as money is Bent from the southern colonies.