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Page 190
... union . Between 1892 and 1900 the Victorian and Tas- manian branches of the A.M.A. paid £ 121,000 in benefit money to less than 10,000 members . The Queenstown and Mt. Lyell Medical Unions competed against and weakened the A.M.A. The ...
... union . Between 1892 and 1900 the Victorian and Tas- manian branches of the A.M.A. paid £ 121,000 in benefit money to less than 10,000 members . The Queenstown and Mt. Lyell Medical Unions competed against and weakened the A.M.A. The ...
Page 194
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 ...
Page 197
... 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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