Interesting details concerning the wages paid to journeymen and their contributions to the guilds are to be found in the original documents relating exclusively to the journeymen-guilds, collected by Georg Schanz.
In Saxony, similarly, the agriculturaljourneymen received two meals a day, of four courses each, besides frequently cheese and bread at other times should they require it.
Like the masters, the journeymen had their own guild-house, and their own solemn functions and social gatherings.
Needless to say, the relations between master and apprentices and master and journeymen were rigidly fixed down to the minutest detail.
In the hey-day of the guilds, every apprentice and most of the journeymen regarded their actual condition as a period of preparation which would end in the glories of mastership.
They belonged, in short, to the class of the organized handicraftsmen and journeymenwho worked within city walls.
Address to the Journeymen and Labourers’ on the aforementioned subjects.
And they must get it, these men of stitches, Or what shall we do for coats and breeches, We must black and go naked, or hide in ditches Thro’ the strike of the Journeymen Tailors.
We all for the biggest shilling fight, And I think you will own that I am right, But jolly good luck I say, blow me tight, To the whole of the Journeymen Tailors.
What we shall do, I do not know, If the men to work they will not go, We shall walk about just like scarecrows, Thro’ the strike of the Journeymen Tailors.
In Berlin and Vienna married journeymen are to be met with, but not in great numbers, and in smaller towns they may almost be said to be unknown.
You have held your own bravely; just as I like my journeymen to do.
His new journeymen caused him nothing but vexation and annoyance every day.
The derisive laughter of the other journeymen and the apprentices followed him.
Journeymen masons feasted on venison pasties, carpenters' apprentices and hungry hodmen, for once in their lives stayed their appetites with roast pheasant and pate de foie gras.
Master Martin, Rosa, and the two journeymen had seated themselves beside a plashing fountain.
At last they all went home to bed; and Master Martin gave each of his new journeymen a nice bright chamber in his house.
He was a live man and a brisk talker, and had two journeymen and three apprentices, and was doing a raging business.
From the back rooms would come the sound of tapping or filing as the journeymen and apprentices were hard at work upon their various tasks.
This was practically an enforcement of an order issued ten years earlier, that nojourneymen should form 'caves' without the licence of the mayor and the master of their craft.
At Bristol also there was a gild of journeymen connected with the shoemakers' craft, sharing with the craft gild in the expenses of church lights and feasts.
Such a licence would not as a rule be granted, unless the masters were unusually broadminded, or the journeymen exceptionally strong.
Journeymen shall be paid their present rate of wages.
In London, the old distinction between craftsmen and laborers was blurred by the existence of trades which employed workmen under a skilled foreman instead of journeymenwho had served an apprenticeship.
Journeymen traveled to see the work of their craft in other towns.
Some industries, such as watchmaking, silk weaving, and shoemaking were on both a putting out system and a system of an apprenticeship to journeymen working on piece work.
No one in the colonies except present hatmakers who are householders and journeymen may make hats unless they serve a seven year apprenticeship.
Persons who entice away journeymen glovers to make gloves in their own houses shall be brought before the mayor and aldermen.
Journeymen in factories could no longer aspire to become masters of their trade and no longer socialized with their employers.
Those journeymen rising to master had the highest pay rate.
In 1773, wages and prices for the work of journeymen silk weavers in and around London are to be regulated by the Mayor and Justices of the Peace.
Despite this statute, the journeymen tailors complained to Parliament of their low wages and lack of work; their masters called them to work only about half the year.
Thirdly came the humbler artisans, the sellers of victuals, small shopkeepers, apprentices, and journeymen on the rise.
There is a decided smack of the modern about the use the gang was put to by the journeymen coopers of Bristol.
In associations, journeymen were losing their chance of rising to be a master.
When these apprentices had enough training they were made journeymen with a higher rate of pay.
There were not twice as manyjourneymen as masters.
Thus in 1783 the journeymen paper-makers instituted a system of fines on their masters, which they enforced by deserting in a body the service of those who resisted them.
In that time we had three journeymen at work and two or three girl-compositors, and commonly a boy-apprentice besides.
They did not learn the whole trade, as the journeymen had done; but served only such apprenticeship as fitted them to set type; and their earnings were usually as great at the end of a month as at the end of a year.
The Journeymen Tailors and the Switchmen each had delegates from two locals.
Journeymen Tailors Benevolent and Protective Union of San Francisco (A.
In the end--and that worried him the most--his journeymen became refractory all of a sudden.
Footnote 169-7: In Switzerland, journeymen are often better paid than the clerks kept by the greater tradesmen.
The prohibition of the exportation of wool of 1582 assigns as a reason of the prohibition, that the numerous leading weavers should not be ruined for the sake of a few unmarried journeymenand sellers.
On the Leipzig-Dresden Railway, locomotive engineers, for the most part previously journeymen blacksmiths, earned 900 thalers a year.
Strikes of journeymen began to be much more frequent in Germany in the guilds, from the time of the prospect of their becoming masters themselves, and of their living in the family of the masters had decreased.
Thus, the artificial increase of the wages of masters effected by the former guild-system was produced, to say the least, as much at the cost of the journeymen and apprentices as of the public.
So now among the German journeymen book-printers, and so, also, for the most part, in England.
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