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Geoffrey Blainey. union , however , it was a pyrrhic victory . The Blocks mine could not afford to pay these wages and it soon dismissed all hands . But this first union victory on the field increased the strength of the Gormanston ...
Geoffrey Blainey. union , however , it was a pyrrhic victory . The Blocks mine could not afford to pay these wages and it soon dismissed all hands . But this first union victory on the field increased the strength of the Gormanston ...
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... union lost five hun- dred of its seven hundred members in the space of months . John Joseph Long , surveying the wreck of his union , complained bitterly that the company had used its victory to outlaw the trade unions and crush the ...
... union lost five hun- dred of its seven hundred members in the space of months . John Joseph Long , surveying the wreck of his union , complained bitterly that the company had used its victory to outlaw the trade unions and crush the ...
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... unions to a trial of strength , for it was an inflexible rule of the union that if any member was dismissed for performing the union's business , all members must stand by him until he regained his job . Since a strike was inevitable ...
... unions to a trial of strength , for it was an inflexible rule of the union that if any member was dismissed for performing the union's business , all members must stand by him until he regained his job . Since a strike was inevitable ...
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