Memories of the Mount Isa beer drinking strike

By Kim-Maree Burton
September 1 2018 - 10:00am
STRIKE ENDS: Bugger the beer drinker's strike, let's drink. Mount Isa, 1930.
STRIKE ENDS: Bugger the beer drinker's strike, let's drink. Mount Isa, 1930.

“WE members of the Union know only too well,” said a Bagman. “What it is to go without beer, especially in the torrid west.”

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