Description
This is a black-and-white photograph of 121 armed officers and men of the Townsville Mounted Infantry escorting about 60 non-unionist shearers, known as 'blacklegs' or 'scabs', to Hughenden Station on 22 April 1891 during the central Queensland Shearers' Strike. Several crowded 'German' wagons follow, some containing more armed uniformed men. Several riders accompany the wagons on their flanks. The procession has stopped to pose for the photographer.
Acknowledgements
| Credits | Reproduced courtesy of State Library of Queensland
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| Creator | Unidentified |
| Identifiers | State Library of Queensland image number 171630
TLF resource R8001 |
| Source | State Library of Queensland, http://www.slq.qld.gov.au |
