James Hutchison (Australian politician)

James Hutchison was a Labor representative in the South Australian House of Assembly and the Australian House of Representatives.

Hutchison was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, received a primary educated and was eventually apprenticed as a compositor on the Daily Free Press and attended the mechanics institute. He migrated to South Australia in 1884 with fellow worker, John McPherson and they found work on the South Australian Register. In 1886 he married Mary Jane Trebilcock. In 1888, Hutchison and McPherson were sacked for taking part in a strike over their papers opposition to union labor. In 1889 Hutchison established a press, Hutchison, Craker amp Smith with two other sacked compositors and in 1890 began publishing a satirical paper, Quiz.

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