Manual workers

Usage examples of labourers.

The interest of this quotation lies in the fact that, all unconsciously, so intelligent a man as Hawthorne had been reduced to the mental state of our agricultural labourers in revolt against the country life.

And, as likely as not, the word Home will have only a special significance, indicating the common abode of retired labourers who are drawing old-age pensions.

The cottage girls and cottage boys marry the instant they get a chance, and it is not at all uncommon to find comparatively young labourers who have had two wives.

Hopping happily comes on just after corn harvest, so that the labourers get two harvest-times.

There was the bread and cheese mixture, very often called for, as the ailments of the labourers are commonly traceable to a heavy diet of cheese.

This old sing-song had doubtless been handed down from the times when the labourers really did steal sheep, a crime happily extinct with cheap bread.

It seems to be left to men who are little more than labourers, and who cannot understand the patent fact that times are different now from what they were thirty years since, when they first donned their uniforms.

The labourers, greatly incensed--for they regarded threshing by the flail as their right--tried to burn them, but the structures were guarded and still exist.

Potomac, was much otherwise, and the mortality among the labourers on the canal was frightful.

Thornfield meadows: or rather, the labourers are just quitting their work, and returning home with their rakes on their shoulders, now, at the hour I arrive.

In 1923, according to thie figures of Acting Director Cruz of the Bureau of Labour, 7,261 Filipino labourers went to Hawaii, while, during that period, but 149 returned.

I am always having to send medicine down to my labourers on my plantation, who have malaria.

It shows that while Filipino and American may be exchanged, man for man, in the light jobs, as street-car operators, three to four Filipino track labourers are required to do the work that in America one white man does.

Farm labourers in eastern Germany for the first time won the right to organise.