Agencies were established in the principal towns of the colonies. Men were hired and forwarded to such stations as were in need. The cost of transit10 was paid by the associated employers. They were forwarded by rail, by coach, on horseback, or by steamer, as such transit was available. An unfair, even illegal system of intimidation11, under the specious12 name of 'picketing,' to prevent the men thus engaged from following their lawful13 occupation, came into vogue14. unionists were stationed along roads or near stations, nominally15 to 'persuade' the free labourers not to fulfil their agreements, but, in reality, to threaten and abuse, not infrequently with brutal16 violence to assault and ill-treat the nonconformists.
The majority of the unionists were well-intentioned men, led away by specious demagogues; but among them were lawless ruffians, who, ignorantly prejudiced against their 66superiors and even their equals, who had risen in life by the exercise of industry and thrift17, were capable of any villainy, not even stopping short of arson18 and bloodshed. Up to this time the Ministry19 of the day had been tardy20 and over-cautious, both in the protection of property and in the punishment of a criminal crew. But they were gradually coming to a determination to stop such disorders22 summarily. The strong arm of the law was invoked23 to that intent. For too frequently had peaceable workmen, under the ban of the unionist tyranny, been captured, ill-treated, robbed, and temporarily deprived of their liberty.
Grown bold by previous toleration, the union Camp by Moorara had determined24 to make an example of this particular steamer, with her load of free shearers and rouseabouts—to teach them what the penalty was of withstanding the Australian Shearers' union and bringing a load of blacklegs past their very camp.
It was nearly midnight when a scout25 galloped26 in to announce that the Dundonald was within half a mile of the camp, on her way down river with fifty free labourers on board.
'By the God of Heaven,' shouted a dissolute-looking shearer1, 'we'll give them a lesson to-night, if we never do it again. I know the agent well—a d—d infernal swell27, who looks upon working-men as dogs, and talks to them like the dirt under his feet. I told him I'd meet him some day, and that day's come.'
'Come along, lads,' shouts an evil-faced larrikin from a city lane; 'let's give it 'em hot. We'll burn their bloomin' boat, and have roast blackleg for breakfast.'
'You'd as well mind your eye, my lad,' said a slow-speaking, steady-going Sydney-sider, from Campbelltown. 'Seth Dannaker's the skipper of this boat—I can hear her paddles now, and he'll shoot straight if you meddle28 with his loadin'. You're not the sort to face Seth's pea-rifle, 'nless yer got a fairish big tree in front of yer.'
Upon this discouraging statement, the product of 'a city's smoke and steam'—under-sized, untended from childhood, grown to manhood, untaught save in precocious29 villainy—slunk into the background, while from the centre of a group emerged the man who had posed as the 'President of the Council,' and thus addressed the crowding shearers:—
67'Bring out Bill Hardwick and them other "scabs." We'll have 'em in front when the shootin' begins. It'll do 'em good to feel what their friends' tyranny's brought the people to.'
The sentry30 was directed to quit his post, and a score of eager hands competed for the privilege of dragging out the weary, famished31 men, and rushing with them to the river-bank, while with slow, reverberating32 strokes the measured beat of the paddles was heard, as the dimly-lighted hull33 of the steamer showed amid the ebon darkness—the throbbing34 of her overpowered engines sounding like the heart-beats of some monstrous35 creature, slow-emerging from the channels of a prehistoric36 morass37.
'Boat ahoy!' shouted the President, with an accent telling of a seaman's experiences. 'Heave to, and let us have a look at your passenger list.'
'Who the hell are you, anyway?' was returned in answer—the intonation38 confirming the Sydney-sider's information. 'What's my passenger list to you? I'm bound to Moorara, and the men on board hev' their passage paid—that's all I've to look to. Full steam ahead!'
A derisive39 laugh was the only answer from the river-bank. But the skipper's complacency was of short duration, as a violent shock almost dislodged him from the bridge, and made every bit of loose timber, or unsecured deck cargo40, rock and rattle41 again. The Dundonald had gone full speed against a wire rope, or rather against two twisted together, which had been feloniously taken from a punt higher up the river, because the misguided lessee42 had carried across free labourers.
A yell of exultation43 burst from the excited crowd, now fully44 determined to board the obnoxious45 steamer, while a voice from their midst, after commanding silence, called out, 'Steamer ahoy!'
'Well, what is it? What do you want, stopping me on a voyage? You'd as well take care; I'm a quiet man, but a bad one to meddle with.'
'We want those infernal traitors46 you've got aboard.'
'And suppose I won't give up my passengers?'
'Then we'll burn yer bloomin' boat, and roast them and you along with it. Don't yer make no mistake.'
'Then you'd better come and do it.'
68At this defiance47, a chorus of yells and execrations ascended48 through the warm, still air, as a hundred men dashed into the tepid49 waters of the smooth stream, the slow current of which hardly sufficed to bear them below the steamer's hull. Like a swarm50 of Malay pirates, they clambered on the low rail of the half barge51, half steamer, which had done her share in carrying the wool-crop of the limitless levels so many times to the sea. But her last voyage had come. The crew stubbornly resisted. Many a man fell backward, half stunned52 by blows from marline-spikes and gun-stocks—though as yet only a few shots were fired—and more than one of the rioters narrowly escaped death by drowning. But the 'free labourers,' disordered by the suddenness of the onslaught, fought but half-heartedly. Outnumbered by ten to one, they were driven back, foot by foot, till they were forced aft, almost to the rail, before the skipper yielded.
A few shots had been fired from the bank before the charge through the water was made, in the pious53 hope of hitting the captain or one of the crew; better still, a free labourer. They were promptly54 returned, and one of the men nearest the leader fell, shot through the body. But at that moment the leader's strident voice was heard. 'Stop firin'; I'll shoot the next man that holds up a gun. Let's catch 'em alive and deal with 'em and their blasted boat afterwards. There's enough of yer to eat 'em!'
When the surrender was imminent55, the skipper had one of the boats lowered—a broad-beamed, serviceable, barge-like affair, in which great loads had been conveyed in the flooded seasons—and putting a white cloth on to the end of his rifle-barrel, called for a parley56. It was granted.
'See here, yer darned pirates! I want a word or two. There's a ton of powder on board, and the man you wounded with your cowardly first shoot is sitting on a chair beside a coil of fuse, with a sperm57 candle and a box of matches. It's a sure thing he won't live, and he don't love the men that took his life, foul58 and coward-like. I'm to fire this revolver twice for a signal, and next minute we'll all go to hell together, sociable59 like. Jump into the boat, men, and take your guns, some grub, and a tarpaulin60. Those that like may stay with me—I stop with the ship.'
If there's anything that undisciplined men fear, it is an 69explosion of gunpowder61. They did not know for certain whether there was any on board. But if there was, there was no time to lose. A panic seized them, one and all. The crew descended62 into the boat in good order, obeying the captain's commands. His cool, decided63 voice imposed upon the rioters. They tumbled into the river by scores—knocking over their comrades and even striking them, like men in a sinking vessel64, under the influence of fear—until the last man had reached the bank, when they even ran some distance in their terror before they could rid themselves of the fear of hearing too late the thunderous roar of the explosion, and being hurled65 into eternity66 in an instant.
The free labourers, on the other hand, from having assisted in the navigation of the steamer in her slow voyage from Echuca, had made themselves acquainted with every nook and cranny and pound of cargo on the boat. They knew that there was no magazine, nor any powder, and, divining the captain's ruse67, made for the opposite bank with all convenient speed. Those who could swim, lost no time; and those who could not, escaped into the bush, undisturbed by the privateering crowd that had been so valorous a few minutes before.
When the boat returned and not before, the captain descended with deliberation, remarking, 'Now, lads, we've got a clear track before us. There ain't no powder, there ain't no wounded man, and I reckon them long-shore skunks68 will find themselves in an all-fired mess when the police come. There's a big body of 'em only ten miles from here, at Moorara Station. We'll just make camp and have a snack—some of us want it pretty bad. We'll build fires to warm those that's wet—wood's plenty. Leave 'em burning and make down river so's to warn the police under Colonel Elliot. The union army won't cross before morning, for fear of the old tub blowing up and making a scatteration among 'em.'
The programme was carried out. The night was of Egyptian darkness. Supper was hastily disposed of. The fires were freshly made up, and shortly afterwards the whole contingent69 took the down-river road and by daylight were miles away from the scene of the encounter.
The unusually large body of police which had been ordered 70up by the Government, to join with another force on the Darling, had made rendezvous70 at Moorara, having heard from a scout that mischief71, rather above the ordinary limit, was being enacted72 near Poliah. When, next morning, the captain and crew of the Dundonald, with the greater portion of the free labourers, arrived, a strong sensation was aroused. This was an unparalleled outrage73, and, if unchecked, meant the commencement of Civil War, plain and undisguised.
What horrors might follow! A guerilla band, with its attendant crimes—murder, pillage74, outrage! Such a band of reckless desperadoes, armed and mounted, like a regiment75 of irregular horse, was sufficient to terrorise the country; gathering76 on the march, till every criminal in the land that could steal a horse and a gun would be added to their ranks in a surprisingly short time.
Once launched on such a campaign of crime, the country would be ravaged77 before a military force could be organised. The proverbial snowball may be arrested at the first movement, but after gathering velocity78, it descends79 the mountain-side with the force and fury of the avalanche80.
The colonel in command of the Volunteers was a soldier to whom border raids in wild lands, with a wilder foe81, was not unfamiliar82. 'Boot and saddle' was sounded. Without a moment's unnecessary delay, the troop was in full marching order along the 'river road,' a well-marked trail, heading for Poliah.
The night was still dark, but comparatively cool. No inconvenience was felt as the men trotted83 briskly along and joked as to the sort of battle in which they would engage.
'Bless yer, they won't fight, not if there was another thousand of 'em,' said a grizzled sergeant84, 'and every man with the newest arm invented. I've seen mobs afore. Men as ain't drilled and disciplined never stands a charge.'
'They've got rifles and revolvers, I know,' said a younger man, 'and they can shoot pretty straight, some of 'em. Suppose they keep open order, and pepper us at long range? What's to keep 'em from droppin' us that way, from cover, and then makin' a rush?'
'There's nothin' to keep 'em, only they won't do it,' replied the sergeant oracularly. 'They know the law's agin' 'em, which means a lot in Australia—so far. Besides that, they've 71never faced a charge, or don't know what it's like to stiffen85 up in line. You'll see how they'll cut it when they hear the colonel give the word, not to mention the bugle-call. Why, what the devil——?'
Then the sergeant, ending his sentence abruptly86, almost halted, as a column of flame rose through the night air, sending up tongues of flame and red banners through the darkness which precedes the dawn.
'D—d if they haven't burned the bloomin' steamer!' quoth he. 'What next, I'd like to know? This country's going to the devil. I always thought it was a mistake sending our old regiment away.'
'Halt!' suddenly rang out in the clear, strong tones of the colonel—the voice of a man who had seen service and bore the tokens of it in a tulwar slash87 and a couple of bullet wounds. 'These fellows have set fire to the steamer, and of course she will burn to the water's edge. They will hardly make a fight of it though. In case they do, sergeant, take twenty men and skirt round so as to intercept88 their left wing. I'll do myself the honour to lead the charge on their main body, always supposing they wait for us to come up.'
The character of the resistance offered proved the sergeant's estimate to be absolutely correct. A few dropping shots were heard before the police came up, but when the rioters saw the steady advance of a hundred mounted men—an imposing89 cavalry90 force for Australia—saw Colonel Elliot, who rode at their head with his sword drawn91, heard the clanking of the steel scabbards and the colonel's stern command, 'Charge!' they wavered and broke rank in all directions.
'Arrest every man on the river-bank with firearms in his hands,' roared the colonel. The sergeant, with a dozen of his smartest troopers, had each their man in custody92 a few seconds after the order was given—Bill Hardwick among the rest, who was fated to illustrate93 the cost of being found among evil-doers. One man alone made a desperate resistance, but after a crack from the butt-end of a carbine, he accepted his defeat sullenly94. By the time his capture was complete, so was the rout95 of the rebel array. Hardly a man was to be seen, while the retreating body of highly irregular horse sounded like a break-out from a stock-yard.
Matters had reached the stage when the stokers at the Gas 72Works were 'called out,' and the city of Melbourne threatened with total darkness after 6 P.M.
Then a volunteer corps96 of Mounted Rifles was summoned from the country. The city was saved from a disgraceful panic—perhaps from worse things. The unionist mob quailed97 at the sight of the well-mounted, armed, and disciplined body of cavalry, whose leader showed no disposition98 to mince99 matters, and whose hardy100 troopers had apparently101 no democratic doubts which the word 'Charge!' could not dispel102.
At the deserted103 Gas Works, aristocratic stokers kept the indispensable flame alight until the repentant104, out-colonelled artisans returned to their work.
This was the crisis of the struggle—the turning-point of the fight; as far as the element of force was concerned, the battle was over. It showed, that with proper firmness, which should have been exhibited at the outset, the result is ever the same. The forces of the State, with law and justice behind them, must overawe any undisciplined body of men attempting to terrorise the body politic105 in defence of fancied rights or the redress106 of imaginary wrongs.
The rioting in the cities of Melbourne and Sydney was promptly abated107 when the citizen cavalry, 'armed and accoutred proper,' clanked along Collins Street in Melbourne, while Winston Darling led the sons of his old friends and schoolfellows, who drove the high-piled wool waggons108 in procession down George Street in Sydney to the Darling Harbour Warehouses109.
Much was threatened as to the latter demonstration110, by blatant111 demagogues, who described it as 'a challenge; an insult to labour.' It was a challenge, doubtless—a reminder112 that Old New South Wales, with the founders113 of the Pastoral Industry—that great export now reaching the value of three hundred millions sterling—was not to be tyrannised over by a misguided mob, swayed by self-seeking, irresponsible agitators114.
No doubt can exist in the minds of impartial115 observers that if the Ministries116 of the different colonies over which this wave of industrial warfare117 passed, in the years following 1891, had acted with promptness and decision at the outset, the heavy losses and destructive damage which followed might have been averted118.
But the labour vote was strong—was believed, indeed, to 73be more powerful than it proved to be when tested. And the legislatures elected by universal suffrage119 were, in consequence, slow to declare war against the enemies of law and order.
They temporised, they hesitated to take strong measures. They tacitly condoned120 acts of violence and disorder21. They permitted 'picketing,' a grossly unfair, even illegal (see Justice Bramwell's ruling) form of intimidation, employed to terrorise the free labourers.
The natural results followed. Woolsheds were burned, notably121 the Ayrshire Downs; the Cambridge Downs shed, 4th August 1894; Murweh, with 50,000 sheep to be shorn—roll to be called that day. Fences were cut, bridges sawn through, stock were injured, squatters and free labourers were assaulted or grossly reviled122.
Everything in the way of ruffianism and disorder short of civil war was practised, apparently from one end of Australia to the other, before the Executive saw fit to intervene to check the excesses of the lawless forces which, well armed and mounted, harassed123 the once peaceful, pastoral Arcadia.
At length the situation became intolerable; the governing powers, with the choice before them of restraining bands of condottieri or abdicating124 their functions, woke up.
It was high time. From the 'Never Never' country in remotest Queensland, from the fabled125 land 'where the pelican126 builds her nest' to the great Riverina levels of New South Wales, from the highlands of the Upper Murray and the Snowy River to the silver mines of the Barrier, a movement arose, which called itself Industrial unionism, but which really meant rebellion and anarchy127.
It was rebellion against all previously-accepted ideas of government. If carried out, it would have subverted128 social and financial arrangements. It would have delivered over the accumulated treasure of 'wealth and knowledge and arts,' garnered129 by the thrift, industry, and intelligence of bygone generations, to one section of the workers of the land—the most numerous certainly, but incontestably the least intelligent—to be wasted in a brief and ignoble130 scramble131.
The list of outrages132, unchecked and unpunished, during this period, makes painful reading for the lover of his country.
A distinguished133 and patriotic134 member of the 'Australian 74Natives' Association,' in one of his addresses before that body, declared 'that, for the first time in his life, he felt ashamed of his native country.' That feeling was shared by many of his compatriots, as day after day the telegrams of the leading journals added another to the list of woolsheds deliberately135 set on fire, of others defended by armed men—sometimes, indeed, unsuccessfully.
When the directors of the Proprietary136 Silver Mine at Broken Hill saw fit to diminish the number of miners, for which there was not sufficient employment, it was beleaguered137 by an armed and threatening crowd of five thousand men. A real siege was enacted. No one was allowed to pass the lines without a passport from the so-called President of the Miners' Committee.
For three days and nights, as the Stipendiary Magistrate138 stated (he was sent up specially139 by the New South Wales Government, trusting in his lengthened140 experience and proved capacity), the inmates141 of the mine-works sat with arms in their hands, and without changing their clothes, hourly expectant of a rush from the excited crowd.
The crisis was, however, tided over without bloodshed, chiefly owing, in the words of a leading metropolitan142 journal, to the 'admirable firmness and discretion143' displayed by the official referred to—now, alas144! no more. He died in harness, fulfilling his arduous145 and responsible duties to the last, with a record of half a century of official service in positions of high responsibility, without a reflection in all that time having been cast upon his integrity, his courage, or his capacity.
More decisive action was taken, and was compelled to be taken, in Queensland than in the other colonies.
There, owing to the enormous areas necessarily occupied by the Pastoralists, the immense distances separating the holdings from each other, and, perhaps, the heterogeneous146 nature of the labour element, the acts of lawlessness became more serious and menacing. A military organisation147 was therefore found to be necessary. Volunteers were enrolled148. Large bodies of these troops and of an armed constabulary force were mobilised, and many of the incidental features of a civil war were displayed to a population that had rarely seen firearms discharged in anger.
The nomadic149 population had been largely recruited from 75the criminals of other colonies, who, fleeing from justice, were notoriously in the habit of crossing the Queensland border, and evading150 a too searching inquiry151.
These were outlaws152 in the worst sense of the word; desperate and degraded, conversant153 with undetected crime, and always willing to join in the quasi-industrial revolts, unfortunately of everyday occurrence.
In these, bloodshed was barely avoided, while hand-to-hand fights, inflicting154 grievous bodily injury, were only too common.
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