Australian Labor Difficulties.

This article discusses about labor difficulties and strikes at present prevailing through all the Australasian colonies. Comprehension of the conditions under which laborers have been laboring, gives a better understanding of their demands. Every class of labor has its union, with laws more rigidly enforced than the criminal code of any existing government. A member becomes a unionist first, a citizen afterwards. The immense power of these organizations over their members has but lately been strained to its fullest extent. Union of the ship-shearers is one such union. The arbitrary character of its rules leads many sheep-owners to employ only shearers who are not members of the union, and it raised the alarm among unions.