Word: stockmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been planted with wheat; fodder for cattle is so scarce that farmers are slaughtering livestock they can no longer feed. In Victoria, the air echoes with the sound of gunshots as ranchers, who have already shot about 27,000 head of cattle, rid themselves of stock. In South Australia, stockmen are demanding compensation for an estimated 100,000 head of cattle and 2 million sheep they say must be killed to prevent overgrazing of the barren land...
...workers-m?? ??local 877 of the International ?? Operating Engineers-originally ?? ?own the two-year contract because ?? ?vided for a wage increase of ?? an hour, compared with 92 ca?? mechanics and stockmen, who are ?? skilled workers...
...contracts-negotiated for Harvard's electricians, painters, plumbers, mechanics, steamfitters, stockmen, and laborers-replace contracts which expired...