Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p After the 1890 Australian maritime dispute and the 1891 Australian shearers' strike both of which were long, drawn out affairs in which trade unions were defeated, running out of funds, actions by increasingly militant and desperate unions led up to perhaps the most violent shearers' strike, in 1894.Pastoralists were motivated to cut rates and hire non-union labour (which was plentiful due to mass unemplyment during the 1890s depression) by falling wool prices in London.. }
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- 1894_Australian_shearers'_strike comment "After the 1890 Australian maritime dispute and the 1891 Australian shearers' strike both of which were long, drawn out affairs in which trade unions were defeated, running out of funds, actions by increasingly militant and desperate unions led up to perhaps the most violent shearers' strike, in 1894.Pastoralists were motivated to cut rates and hire non-union labour (which was plentiful due to mass unemplyment during the 1890s depression) by falling wool prices in London.".