Gilbert Casey
Gilbert Stephen Casey (* 1856 in County Clare , Ireland ; † October 2, 1946 in New Australia , Paraguay ) was a trade unionist , agitator of the early Australian labor movement and a utopian socialist .
Private life
He was the son of Patrick Casey, a merchandise trader, and his wife Susan. He went to sea and came into contact with union ideas. In October 1883 he immigrated to Queensland , Australia and worked as a forest worker, coal mine and dock worker. He married his wife Shile on October 14, 1883, and after she left him in New Australia in 1895, he married Maria Antonia Sosa, a Paraguayan woman, in New Australia . With her and his two sons he ran cattle breeding in La Novia near Asunción after the failure of the socially uptopic New Australia , occasionally wrote newspaper articles for newspapers of the Australian labor movement and was police chief in New Australia for years .
Political life
In February 1886, Casey became a member of the Queensland Maritime Council through the Brisbane Wharf Laborers' Union and in 1888 helped found the Townsville Trades and Labor Council .
In June 1889 he was instrumental in the reconstruction of the Australian Labor Federation , was co-founder of the district councils of Maryborough , Rockhampton , Charters Towers and Townsville and chairman of the board of trustees of the Worker .
After the first Australian banking and economic crisis of 1890 and the defeat of the Australian trade unions in the maritime strike of 1890 and the shearers strike of 1891 , he preferred a general strike in Australia, which pragmatic trade unionists rejected, which he also fiercely attacked by anti-union social forces brought in. In the conservative press he was accused of incest and that he wanted to get his idea through regardless of the social costs. In Barcaldine , he was charged with arson during the sheep shearers strike in 1891 and jailed for two weeks before being released on charges of heart problems.
After the lost sheep shearers strike in 1891, he did not want to support the initiative to found the Australian Labor Party and became a member of the New Australia Co-operative Settlement Association of William Lane , which had set itself the goal of founding an early socialist colony in New Australia . On December 31, 1893 Casey left with his wife in the second group of settlers on the ship Royal Tar Australia on the way to New Australia in Paraguay .
He stayed in the Australian colony of New Australia after William Lane split into the Cosme colony and was in Australia in 1894 to promote the colony's support, then was elected President of the Sociedad Co-operativa Colonizadora Nueva Australia in 1896. However, he could not stop the decline of this colony and after the dissolution of the colony oriented himself professionally as a cattle breeder and as police chief of New Australia .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Casey, Gilbert Stephen (1856-1946). at: adbonline.anu.edu.au in English, accessed June 2, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Casey, Gilbert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Casey, Gilbert Stephen (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian utopian, journalist and labor leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | County Clare , Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 2, 1946 |
| Place of death | New Australia , Paraguay |