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The other was a dispute between the shearers' union and the pastoralists over the employment of nonunion labor.
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The men in this type of family were usually weavers and spinners, although some higher-skilled textile workers, like shearers, were also represented in this category.
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The longwallshearerwas moved to a position on the face where the remnant coal thickness exceeded the radar's nominal penetration depth.
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At the end of 1890, the shearers' and shedhands' unions had a combined membership of 11,356.
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Especially in rural areas, the shearers' union virtually was the labor party.
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The predominant occupational group was the textileworkers, constituting one third of the district's inhabitants, including over half of the city's shearers and dyers (shearers having led the second revolt).
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Shearerthen builds on this, giving a more conventional discussion.
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One must work, where practicable, towards such technological advances as the radio-controlled shearers which have been mentioned.
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He has had to pay very high wages to his shearers.
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Will that apply also to labouring sheep shearers as well as to farmers?
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There are crushers and pounders, shearers and smelters and pulverisers.
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In the old tinplate industry, there were the rollermen, the furnacemen, the shearers and the rest.
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It means that when someone crawls along the coal face, instead of seeing 30 or 40 people he sees a modernshearerrepresenting about £750,000 worth of investment.
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Sheep farmers also face specific problems with shearers gaining access to sheep.
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This was a faster tally than any othershearerhad achieved before.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They had a particular role as shearers in the harvest, forming most of the reaping team of the "bandwin".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They are a particular feature of the dress of ashearerand used, nowadays, worldwide by them.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The property offers eco friendly accommodation to tourists with visitors able to stay in the old homestead, shearers' quarters or camping near the beach.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Ashearercatches a sheep and brings it to his stand; he then pulls the handle and his machine is ready.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A hand-shearerhas always to be pulling the fleece out of his way, but with the machines it just falls over as it is cut.
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