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 utopian socialist
Private life
He was the son of Patrick Casey, a commodities dealer, and his wife Susan. He went to sea and came up in contact with trade union ideas. In October 1883, he immigrated to Queensland in Australia and worked as a forestry worker, coal mine and port workers. On October 14, 1883 he married his wife Shile and after she left him in 1895 in New Australia, he married in New Australia Maria Antonia Sosa, a Paraguayan woman. With her and his two sons, he ran after the failure of sozialuptopischen New Australia a livestock in La Novia in Asuncion, occasionally wrote newspaper articles for newspapers of the Australian labor movement and was for many years chief of police in New Australia.
Political life
In February 1886, Casey Member of the Queensland Maritime Council by the Brisbane Wharf Labourers ' Union and helped 1888 Townsville Trades and Labor Council to set up.
In June 1889, he was instrumental in the reconstruction of the Australian Labour Federation, was a founding member 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 shearers ' strike of 1891, he preferred a general strike over Australia, the pragmatic unionists refused, giving him even violent attacks by anti-union forces in society earned. In the conservative press, he was accused of incest, and that he is trying to enforce his idea regardless of the social costs. In Barcaldine he was accused during the shearers' strike in 1891 for arson and jailed for two weeks before he was dismissed because of heart problems.
After the lost sheep shearers strike in 1891, he did not support the initiative for the establishment of the Australian Labor Party and became a member of the New Australia Co-operative Settlement Association by William Lane, who had set itself the goal of establishing an early socialist colony of New Australia. On December 31, 1893 Casey and his wife left in the second group of settlers on the ship Royal Tar Australia on the way to New Australia in Paraguay.
He remained in the Australian colony of New Australia after cleavage by William Lane in the colony of Cosme and was in Australia to promote in 1894 to support the colony, then became the President of the Sociedad Co - operativa Colonizadora Nueva Australia in 1896 elected. He could, however, the decline of this colony not stop and oriented after the dissolution of the colony professionally as farmers and as Chief of Police in New to Australia.