Julian Stuart
John Alexander Salmon "Julian" Stuart (18 December 1866 – 3 July 1929) was an Australian trade unionist, journalist, poet and politician. Early career John Alexander Salmon Stuart was born in Raymond Terrace, New South Wales, and grew up on the Clarence River. After a short-lived career as a school teacher and then as a clerk in Sydney, Stuart began to live the life of an itinerant worker, moving about rural New South Wales and Queensland. As he became more aware of the poor working conditions of shearers and other farm workers, he became more and more involved with the budding trade union movement. As one of the leaders of the 1891 Australian shearers' strike, Stuart was jailed and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment with hard labour. Upon release from jail, Stuart worked for the Labour Electoral League, the forerunner of the New South Wales Labor Party. Western Australia In 1895, Stuart and his new wife moved to Coolgardie with the idea of working the goldfields. Life on the goldfields was tough and in 1901, Stuart finally gave up on the idea of prospecting and moved to Kalgoorlie, where he undertook a variety of jobs, and became an active member of