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Page 173
... Shearers have always been paid by piecework , at so much per hundred sheep shorn , and so the champion shearer of the shed , the ringer , was he who could shear more sheep in a day than any- one else . Most squatters attached more ...
... Shearers have always been paid by piecework , at so much per hundred sheep shorn , and so the champion shearer of the shed , the ringer , was he who could shear more sheep in a day than any- one else . Most squatters attached more ...
Page 198
... shearers who met there on the evening of 12 June . By the following January ( 1887 ) the three separate groups had merged to form the Amalgamated Shearers ' Union which , under the presidency of that ' magnificent opportunist's Spence ...
... shearers who met there on the evening of 12 June . By the following January ( 1887 ) the three separate groups had merged to form the Amalgamated Shearers ' Union which , under the presidency of that ' magnificent opportunist's Spence ...
Page 200
... 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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THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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