{"id":1924,"date":"2023-07-24T03:22:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T03:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2023-07-24T04:01:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T04:01:47","slug":"lockout-mock-grave-for-john-darling-january-1st-1909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/lockout-mock-grave-for-john-darling-january-1st-1909\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockout \u2013 Mock Grave for John Darling \u2013 January 1st, 1909"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Award for Miner\u2019s wages and conditions established in 1906 expired on December 31st 1908. The Mining Manager\u2019s Association held talks with the union representatives early in the month, but the Broken Hill Proprietary Company, Chaired by John Darling, and three other companies announced that due to low metal prices, they would discontinue the 12.5% increase in wages promised in 1906. A mass meeting of unionists working on the BHP, British, Junction and Block 10 Mines voted to stop work while seeking arbitration. The mines in question, \u2018locked out\u2019 all but essential workers. On January 1st the union picket lines were drawn and those who crossed the picket lines were accosted by union men and women.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"639\" src=\"https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-2-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-2-768x491.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"701\" src=\"https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-3-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-3-768x538.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"582\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-4.jpg 582w, https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-4-175x300.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"784\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-5.jpg 784w, https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-5-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-5-768x980.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"691\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-6.jpg 691w, https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-6-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"606\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-7.jpg 606w, https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-7-182x300.jpg 182w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"632\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-8.jpg 632w, https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-8-190x300.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>For the men on the picket lines, four hour shifts of standing and waiting weighed heavily upon them. The AMA established a wood yard, co-op store and bakery to relieve distress. Pickets were paid in monthly food coupons according to time spent on the lines. They made mock graves and held funerals to relieve the anger and powerlessness they felt. Mining Managers and Company Directors, such as John Darling of the Broken Hill Propriety Company, were often targeted. The mock graves and epitaphs were directed at union-breaking labourers including shift bosses, \u2018black-legs\u2019 and \u2018scabs\u2019<sup>1<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"610\" src=\"https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-9.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-9-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-9-768x468.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Special Constables, brought in from Sydney, manned their own lines of defence, protecting the mine offices. Ironically, they constructed a mock grave for the visiting British Socialist, Tom Mann, who was rousing the unionists to solidarity and a class revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1934\" width=\"840\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-10.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-10-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-10-768x478.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>PHOTO 90\/1\/2653 \u201cPOLICEMEN ATA MOCK GRAVE FOR UNIONIST TOM MANN\u201d Joseph Brokenshire, Photographer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Violence erupted on January 9th with a pitched street battle between police and union men. Many were injured including women and children. The newspaper decried the police as \u2018cowardly women beaters\u2019 with reports the police used some of the rebel women as human shields. It had been Tom Mann\u2019s tactical and \u2018new departure\u2019 to request at the mass rally on January 8th, that women march at the head of the procession<sup>2<\/sup>. Twenty eight protesters, including Tom Mann, were incarcerated in the Broken Hill Gaol.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"732\" src=\"https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-11.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-11-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brokenhillhistory.com\/demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lockout-11-768x562.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kearns, R.H.B (1993) <em>Broken Hill 1894-1914: the uncertain years, <\/em>Adelaide: Open Book. pp<em>.<\/em>48-50<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Barrier Daily Truth, February 1, 1909.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Award for Miner\u2019s wages and conditions established in 1906 expired on December 31st 1908. The Mining Manager\u2019s Association held talks with the union representatives early in the month, but the Broken Hill Proprietary Company, Chaired by John Darling, and three other companies announced that due to low metal prices, they would discontinue the 12.5% increase in wages promised in 1906. A mass meeting of unionists working on the BHP, British, Junction and Block 10 Mines voted to stop work while seeking arbitration. The mines in question, \u2018locked out\u2019 all but essential workers. On January 1st the union picket lines were drawn and those who crossed the picket lines were accosted by union men and women. For the men on the picket lines, four hour shifts of standing and waiting weighed heavily upon them. The AMA established a wood yard, co-op store and bakery to relieve distress. Pickets were paid in monthly food coupons according to time spent on the lines. They made mock graves and held funerals to relieve the anger and powerlessness they felt. Mining Managers and Company Directors, such as John Darling of the Broken Hill Propriety Company, were often targeted. The mock graves and epitaphs were directed at union-breaking labourers including shift bosses, \u2018black-legs\u2019 and \u2018scabs\u20191. Special Constables, brought in from Sydney, manned their own lines of defence, protecting the mine offices. Ironically, they constructed a mock grave for the visiting British Socialist, Tom Mann, who was rousing the unionists to solidarity and a class revolution. PHOTO 90\/1\/2653 \u201cPOLICEMEN ATA MOCK GRAVE FOR UNIONIST TOM MANN\u201d Joseph Brokenshire, Photographer. Violence erupted on January 9th with a pitched street battle between police and union men. Many were injured including women and children. The newspaper decried the police as \u2018cowardly women beaters\u2019 with reports the police used some of the rebel women as human shields. It had been Tom Mann\u2019s tactical and \u2018new departure\u2019 to request at the mass rally on January 8th, that women march at the head of the procession2. 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