But the chronicler did not think so; he preserved the Bishop's troubles--no doubt he did just what the shoemakers of the time would also have done, providing they had been also chroniclers.
There are no records of when shoemakers lost their jobs that I know of, nor how many shoemakers were put in their places; and I imagine it would have been at least as interesting for us to know as the little matter of Bishop Wilfred.
That's why the organization of the shoemakers has never been of more than middling dimensions.
The shoemakers did no more work by artificial light; there was so little to do that it would not repay the cost of the petroleum; so the hanging lamp was put on one side and the old tin lamp was brought out again.
The tailors and the shoemakers are easy to recognize.
In the workshops the apprentices sat working at cheap boots and shoes for stock; every spring the shoemakers would charter a ship in common and send a cargo to Iceland.
A good many small shoemakers availed themselves of this by advertising handsewn foot-wear, and then passed the measures on to a factory.
And otherwise it's a damned bad country for traveling; there are no shoemakers there.
We must make haste and make out our bills, for now theshoemakers will be having money.
We want to stay precisely where we are, shoemakers and bakers, all together!
Jeppe was the oldest employer in the town, and among the shoemakers his workshop was the biggest.
Shoemakers have distinguished themselves both in poetry and in prose; and if Hector Macallaster had done so in neither, he could yet think, and that is what some people who write both poetry and prose cannot do.
It would be a pity to spend your labour in finding out for yourself what shoemakers have known for hundreds of years, and which you could learn so easily by letting me show you.
The Tailors and Shoemakers had their chantries in St Chad's Church, where the Weavers also had their especial altar, maintaining in addition a light before the shrine of St Winifred in the Abbey of the Holy Cross.
Most of the gateways were of wood, but in 1679 the Shoemakers company erected a handsome stone portal, which a few years subsequently they adorned with figures of their patron saints, Crispin and Crispianus.
When one says because one or two, or even two thousand, shoemakers are bad, all shoemakers are bad, one speaks foolishness.
Soon after, however, an order came from Richmond to detail 160 shoemakers for the use of the Quartermaster-General--such was the stress we were in for shoes.
Eighty shoemakers are to be taken there by rail and then turned over to the Quartermaster-General, and an officer must take the detail.
Saint Monday~, a holiday most religiously observed by journeymen shoemakers and other mechanics.
Shoemakers nickname any shopmate with a large nose "old PASTE-HORN," from the shape of the horn in which they keep their paste.
It is not customary for shoemakers in Germany to keep a large stock of shoes; those in the text, of course, were not all made by the seller, but probably in New England, where there are whole towns where nothing else is done.
Whoever has anything against shoemakers and does not know how to appreciate their excellence individually and generally, let him keep away from me.
In 1835 the shoemakers of Geneva struck to enforce the closed shop against a workman who persisted in working below the union rate.
One case involved Philadelphia master shoemakers who combined to reduce wages, two were against journeymen tailors in Philadelphia and Buffalo and the fourth was a hatters' case in New York.
The shoemakers excluded such members from the organization.
The shoemakerswere first among the organized trades to feel the effects.
Two other trades noted for their enthusiasm for cooperation at this time were the shoemakers and the coopers.
The early[20] societies of shoemakers and printers were purely local in scope and the relations between "locals" extended only to feeble attempts to deal with the competition of traveling journeymen.
In 1809 the shoemakers of Pittsburgh and the Boston printers were added to the list, and somewhat later the Albany and Washington printers.
The conspiracy trials largely turned upon the "closed shop" and in these the shoemakers figured exclusively.
The Pittsburgh case of 1815 was compromised, the shoemakers paying the costs and returning to work at the old wages.
In only one instance, that of the Philadelphia shoemakers of 1806, is there evidence of violence and intimidation.
Of all journeymen indicted during this period the Hudson shoemakers had been the most audacious ones in enforcing the closed shop.
Ingersoll Prefers Shoemakers to Princes The other day there came shoemakers, potters, workers in wood and iron, from Europe, and they were received in the city of New York as though they had been princes.
On March 7th two shoemakerswere fined for offering resistence.
It is not, then, true to say that we have more tailors and shoemakers than we require; but we ought to say instead that our tailors and shoemakers cannot live by their trades because the rest of the workers are too poor to pay them.
There are, let us say, more shoemakers and tailors than there is employment for.
They are shoemakers and saddlers by trade, and are all Saivas by faith.
In the Mysore Census Report it is noted that "to the leather-working caste may be added a small body of Mochis, shoemakers and saddlers.
All the shoemakers of the earth throw on the ground scraps of the leather they use so that thou mayst be able to make the sandal for thy wolf-rending foot.
He laid his foot on the Wolf's lower jaw, that foot that had on the sandal made of all the scraps of leather that shoemakers had laid by for him, and with his hands he seized the upper jaw and tore his gullet.
Some persons add about 1/3 of a teaspoonful of powdered alum to the water, which is said to strengthen the product; the shoemakers add a little quantity of powdered resin to the flour, with the same intention.
The common practice among the shoemakers is to moisten the surface of the leather with a wet sponge before applying the oil or grease; by which (they say) its pores are opened and its absorbent powers increased.
It is chiefly employed in calico-printing, and by shoemakers and lozenge-makers; by the latter to give toughness to the saccharine mass.
Used by the curriers to dress leather, and by shoemakers and others to soften leather, and to render boots and shoes waterproof.
What obviously attracted Dekker in the pamphlet was the third story, to which he saw he could give much realism from his knowledge of the shoemakers about Leadenhall.
Ralph is one of the shoemakers who, pressed to the war, is torn from his protesting wife and fellow apprentices.
Shoemakers are well known to be a thoughtful class of men, although sometimes they unfortunately do not make the best use of their knowledge.
We could give a long list of shoemakers who have been eminent for talents.
Ferdinand went to bed that night with visions of tailors and shoemakers and harnessmakers and whatnot, in his head, until he fell asleep.
We must get this out, for the shoemakers start after breakfast.
In the deep dens that serve as shops, shoemakers were still plying their trade, makers of horn rings were still at their primitive lathes, and embroiderers were still busily sewing in the yellow lamplight.
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