The shearers' strike has passed us by like a mere summer breeze. There were many industria] meteor rologists who explained that "hell had broken loose," that the poor working man was ruined, and the bloated capitalist—triumphant. Secretaries of the employers' organization vied with secretaries of the Australian Workers Union to place on record the fact that the pastoralists were triumphant and that the workers had won the fight. It required but a Mary Johnson faithfully to describe the feelings of the rank and file. Anyhow the chief fact remains, namely that the wool has been taken off the sheep, and the owners of the clip are busily engaged in a controversy not as to how the wool shall be clipped but to how it shall be placed upon the market.
What is known as "B.A.W.R.A." was a wool realization company
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