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Article recounting recent strikes of tailoresses in Sydney, which highlights the "long hours, arduous work, poor pay, and the request of the workers for higher wages". This has been met with wide-spread public approval.

Account of the strike of tailoresses in Sydney, totaling 600 to 700 women and girls. Several firms now refuse to recognise the women unions, stating they will pay whatever they please. Trades Hall unions in Melbourne and Perth warn all women against…

This source is about the dispute between the government and railway workers over the workers' right to unionize. This conflict led to the railway strikes of 1903.