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The shearers would just have to do extra work to make up for him.

All of his boys became shearers, taught by their father.

I was thinking that we might build on to the shearers' place,' he said.

The related events are known as the 1894 shearers' strike.

But as the wool industry grew, so did the number and influence of shearers.

He helped to make Australian shearers the highest paid in the world.

The sound of it brought Silas into the shearers' quarters.

A major strike by shearers in 1891 led to the government deploying military forces.

Experienced shearers like Michael are in so much demand they can find employment right across the globe.

Outside his own domain, and unprotected, he was a very sheep for the shearers.

Farmers always gave a special supper to the sheep shearers when they had finished their work.

A new agreement was offered which shearers refused to sign, effectively striking.

As the sheep industry expanded, more shearers were required.

By May the union camps were full of hungry penniless shearers.

He became aware of the shearers watching him.

It's mighty good of you to let us use your shearers' quarters.'

Gun shearers using blade shears can achieve much lower numbers, about 50 to 70 a day.

The 1891 shearers' strike is one of Australia's earliest and most important industrial disputes.

Working conditions for sheep shearers in 19th century Australia were not good.

But the shearers were unable to hold out.

There was a second shearers strike in 1894.

Most of the strikers were shearers and rural workers.

They'll have everything they need for camping by their trucks, or they can sleep in the shearers' place.

It wouldn't do to put them in the shearers' quarters.'

They met with Chris and some sheep shearers.

Farmers always gave a special supper to the sheep shearers when they had finished their work.

Working conditions for sheep shearers in 19th century Australia were not good.

They met with Chris and some sheep shearers.

Britain is in the grip of a nationwide shortage.of sheep shearers.

This grass is not as tall as so many of the others and can be cut down easily with sheep shearers.

It is common in refinery workers, road workers, mechanics, sheep shearers.

They roamed the countryside finding work as sheep shearers or as farm hands.

The painting depicts sheep shearers plying their trade in a timber shearing shed.

It is said that in 1891 a group of protesting sheep shearers founded the Australian Labor Party under the tree.

William "Deucem" Smith (1896-1947) was known as one of the most talented sheep shearers in the world.

Sheep shearers wear short tunics over shirts, with hose and ankle-high shoes, Flanders, c. 1510.

Mr. O'Keeffe relates the song, in part, to a struggle between sheep shearers and station owners.

Professional sheep shearers can shear a sheep in under a minute, without nicking the sheep.

Long distance cycle travelling was a fact of life in the 1890s for many sheep shearers and other agricultural labourers with migratory work.

"We've hired sheep shearers who will explain what's going on," said Kate McIntyre, a spokeswoman for the zoos.

The tradition of a smoko in the Australian sense seems to have begun amongst sheep shearers in the 1860s.

Near Oakwood, Chauvel's troops were confronted by a crowd of around two hundred mounted sheep shearers.

Among sheep shearers in Australia, "smoko" is a mid-morning break, between breakfast and lunch, in which a light meal may be eaten.

Pipers were employed by William Thomas to entertain sheep shearers at Zennor as late as 1683.

Working as a bush cook, she had in a drunken rage allegedly poisoned a group of sheep shearers who'd had the audacity to complain about her cooking.

Sheep shearers go to remote corners of the West where they live in drafty trailers and toil in canvas sheds filled with sheep and dust.

The second event featured two local sheep shearers, and, and a New Zealand expert, showing just how fast they could part a sheep with its woolly coat.

The tune, with new lyrics, found its way into the Australian bush culture, among outback farmers and sheep shearers, in the song "One of the Has-beens".

Masons, journeymen, farriers, shepherds, jobbers, stockmen, sheep shearers, carpenters and their families were all resident employees with their own houses.

One claim attributes the first words to two Māori groups of sheep shearers, the Grace and Awatere families, of Tuparoa.