Axemen

This breakdown in industrial relations can only escalate after the general election, whoever wins, as the 'axemen' begin hacking jobs and services in the strongly unionised public sector. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Each log was hand-hewed and squared -- an expensive whim when the axemen received a daily wage of fifteen dollars; but to him nothing could be too costly for the home in which Mabel Holmes was to live. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Labour tribalists won't believe this, and the Treasury axemen won't like it, but it is quite rare to find a minister, Conservative or Lib Dem, who relishes firing people. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Along with drummer/comedian Ken Weaver and a rotating band of ace axemen, the Fugs released 16 or so albums of satirical, left-wing, smutty, dope-addled rock and roll and mixed poetry and rock before the Doors. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When the Union batteries opened fire, “it was absolutely deafening,” recounted an Alabama major, “& the limbs from the trees fell as fast as if axemen were at work.” ❋ Jeffry D. Wert (2008)

The axemen are the last to have their overtime cut. and as you need to cut more you need more axemen. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The axemen stand on a board at a height of approximately 3.1m above the ground. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Boone agreed to the task, picked thirty-five axemen, and wandered off to cut a 200-mile swath in less than a year. ❋ Cherie_priest (2007)

Thirty axemen raced down toward the beach, brawny men in sleeveless tunics, their axes gleaming in the sun. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)

The splintering of the timbers under their flying axes came plainly to the people inside the fort, and the axemen were racing back across the sands, trundling the great oaken wheels with them, before the Zingaran ship had dropped anchor where the pirate ship had stood. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)

The first rank, denoted by the red plumes on their hel - mets, were the Bloody Blades, axemen chosen especially for their large size and ferocious demeanor. ❋ Kirchoff, Mary (2003)

The strange spectacle was presented of a battle of rival axemen. ❋ DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN (2001)

Experienced axemen, with swift blows, hacked to pieces the sharpened timbers that protected the Union works. ❋ DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN (2001)

Sawyers, stone-masons, smiths and axemen who threw their hearts into their work always had splendid bodies. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2000)