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Livingston Hopkins, “Before the Law All Men Are Equal”, The Bulletin, Vol. 11 No. 556 (11 Oct 1890, p.5)
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“Before the Law All Men Are Equal”
Police Magistrate (at Hay, N.S.W.): “Defendant, you are clearly proved to have ordered or incited 29 men on one station to stop shearing and leave their contract unfinished I now fine you £5 5s. in each case— or, in default, 14 days’ gaol in each case, the sentences to be cumulative.”
Shearer Rae: “In other words, if at one p’ace, at one time and by using two words, called out a thousand shearers, you could sentence me to 14,000 day’s gaol!”
Quay: Who made the Australian labour laws, the Workers or the Monopolists? And who are going to make them in future?
