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  • THAT the supply of labourers be as nearly as possible proportioned to the demand for Labour at each Settlement; so that Capitalists shall never suffer from an urgent want of Labourers, and that Labourers shall never want well-paid employment.

    A Source Book of Australian History Gwendolen H. [Compiler] Swinburne

  • It was published in the Builders 'Labourers' Song Book in 1975.

    The Builders' Labourers' Song 1975

  • Until I saw Mr. Clausen's "Labourers" I did not fully realise how terrible a thing art becomes when divorced from beauty, grace, mystery, and suggestion.

    Modern Painting 1892

  • Some of the songbooks I collected had union sponsorship like Therese Radic's Songs of Australian Working Life, Chris Kempsters 'Songs of Henry Lawson and of course the Builders' Labourers 'Song

    Unions and the Australian Folk Revival 2007

  • Soo Hoo Zheyang/Reuters Labourers worked at an old building demolition site near a residential complex area in Beijing Tuesday.

    Asia in Pictures 2011

  • Dr James Melius of the New York State Labourers' health fund calls for inclusion of cancer in the government-funded medical programme for firefighters.

    World Trade Centre rescuers at higher risk of cancer, Lancet reveals 2011

  • This is the height of INJUSTICE and what makes matters worse is the fact that the Labourers cannot collectively voice out their grievance, no voice, no union!!!!

    Global Voices in English » Qatar: Video of Unpaid Workers Sparks Debate 2009

  • Reuters Labourers push their rickshaw on a flyover in front of the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi September 25, 2010.

    Commonwealth Games Head Sees Progress Amol Sharma 2010

  • Parivartan Sharma/Reuters Labourers unloaded coal Thursday from a supply truck at a wholesale market in Noida, in the outskirts of New Delhi.

    Asia in Pictures 2011

  • Amit Dave/Reuters Labourers unload garlic from a supply truck at a wholesale vegetable market in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.

    India Food Inflation Slows Abhrajit Gangopadhyay 2011

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