‘Fellow Unionists, an unprovoked and unjustifiable attack has been made upon the above shearers’ and labourers’ unions by the squatters’ associations. It therefore becomes our duty to take such action as will best conserve our interest and frustrate the attempts of organised capitalism to crush unionism and reduce wages in this district…’

…The Central District Council has unanimously resolved that any employer or member of the Pastoralists Association in the colony of Qld who does not, before the 1 March accept through this office the agreements of the QSU and the scale of wages of the QLU shall pay for every week after that date an additional 6d per 100 for shearing…

…Fellow Unionists, if the worst comes to the worst we can always ride down to Brisbane, and ask the government that swamps surplus labour to help capitalism and degrade wage earners, what it is going to do with ten thousand able bodied bushmen, unemployed because it hung out for the fair thing’.