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... shearers comprised the company from whom the stockmen took pains to hide their mirth . Certainly in the 1880s and 1890s shearers considered themselves , and were considered by many bushmen , nonpareils of the whole earth . An ...
... shearers comprised the company from whom the stockmen took pains to hide their mirth . Certainly in the 1880s and 1890s shearers considered themselves , and were considered by many bushmen , nonpareils of the whole earth . An ...
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... Shearers ' Union , is still easily the largest and most powerful , though no longer the most militant , trade union in the country . After what has been said above of the nature of the bushworkers ' outlook , their enthusiastic ...
... Shearers ' Union , is still easily the largest and most powerful , though no longer the most militant , trade union in the country . After what has been said above of the nature of the bushworkers ' outlook , their enthusiastic ...
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... shearers who at Merriula Station accepted work at the pastoralists ' price of seventeen and six per hundred sheep shorn . In the eyes of union men all ' scabs ' were incompetent bunglers who ' haggled ' the beasts : So you Merriula ...
... shearers who at Merriula Station accepted work at the pastoralists ' price of seventeen and six per hundred sheep shorn . In the eyes of union men all ' scabs ' were incompetent bunglers who ' haggled ' the beasts : So you Merriula ...
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