He has shown that it was the custom to teach the youth of all classes some useful art; and the best born and greatest men in Jewish history had been instructed in such trades as weaving, tent-making etc.
We may conclude this point by adding that among the Jews the only trades which could prevent a man from attaining to the dignity of high priest were weavers, barbers, fullers, perfumers, cuppers, and tanners.
Now, you may not be aware (the baron wasn't until that night) that there are among the fairies trades and professions, just as with ordinary mortals.
Thus we see all the protected trades combine, make common cause, and even recruit themselves in such a way as to appear to embrace the mass of the national labour.
We had sweated the canvas on her, even to the flying jib and a huge club topsail she sometimes carried at the main, for the afternoon trades had lost their strength.
From some unaccountable source in that realm of the heaven-scouring trades came a heavy mist.
The corps is recruited almost entirely from among artisans and tradesmen, and a field company of a total strength of 184 all ranks has representatives of no fewer than nineteentrades in it.
The Trade Unions and the Socialists sought to secure the establishment of the eight-hour day through legislation, and it gradually came into force not only in coal-mining, but in various trades and industries.
Among trades the three balls of the pawnbroker, the golden fleece of the dry-goods man, the mortar and pestle of the druggist, and others are well known.
Later some of the trades adopted a symbol; for instance the barbers in the early days were "blood letters" and were closely associated with the medical profession.
After these statements we shall be prepared to find that indoor trades and occupations swell the bills of mortality from phthisis much more than those carried on in the open air.
The Overseers for Trades shall see every Family to lend assistance to plant and reap the fruits of the Earth, to work in their Trades, and to furnish the Storehouses.
A Father is to have a care that all his children do assist to plant the Earth, or by other Trades provide necessaries; so he shall see that every one have a comfortable livelihood, not respecting one before another.
As director of the Mint, he coined very handsome christians d'or and species ducats, but also meditated the erroneous plan of publicly letting the salt and tobacco trades as monopolies.
The various trades were formed into corporations or guilds, rather than castes in the strict sense of the word.
There the President of the Trades and Labour Congress is in close touch with the Labour Department, with the Labour Gazette, with the Government in Council.
Legitimate Trades Unionism itself in Britain had subscribed to The Aims of Labour put forth by Arthur Henderson, who foreshadowed barricades and bayonets in London streets if the proletariat did not get their "rights".
The day may come in the recorded minutes of Trades and Labour Congresses in Canada when a man of broader and more constructive vision may be needed to build the brotherhood out into labour statesmanship.
If organized labour was opposed to conscription, so much the worse for labour, whose own trades unions were a form of conscription; in England he had never named either lord or labour with a capital L.
Felt and felted articles being already in use, in many trades in addition to that of hat-making, necessitates a general and indeed a very full and lucid description of the materials of which they are made.
In Switzerland, among the beautiful mountains, they are finding happiness and health again and many of them are working at new trades and training.
New openings for trades were tested and the possibility of the transference of work formerly done in Germany.
Wages in most cases are at the same rate as men, and as women are organized in Britain in large numbers, the Trades Unions and Women's Committees are always alive and ready to act on the question of payment and conditions.
But they insisted also, as the Trades Unions cannot do, upon a high standard of craftsmanship, which still astonishes the world in the corners of perishing buildings or the colours of broken glass.
There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trades Unions.
The Trades Unions are confederations of men without property, seeking to balance its absence by numbers and the necessary character of their labour.
And it is all the stronger because the man who puts his trust in Trades Unions does not call himself a Catholic or even a Christian, if he does call himself a Guild Socialist.
The old Guilds, with the same object of equality, of course, insisted peremptorily upon the same level system of payment and treatment which is a point of complaint against the modern Trades Unions.
That the most mediæval of modern institutions, the Trades Unions, do not fight for the same ideal of æsthetic finish is true and certainly tragic; but to make it a matter of blame is wholly to misunderstand the tragedy.
For instance, the cotton industry remained in the trough of a deep depression, and the furniture and piano making trades profited little.
In the furnishing trades "short time was worked in almost every district.
Footnote 1: The percentage of unemployment at the beginning of October in the trades compulsorily insured against unemployment was 5.
Again, in the trades where the Government scheme of compulsory unemployment insurance applies, the volume of unemployment at the end of July was 3.
In the glass trades "short time was reported in several districts.
The Birrell education bill and the new licensing bill were destroyed by the House of Lords; the trades disputes bill, after hanging by the neck, was cut down before it was dead.
I then concluded that if we could show them practically that trades in the end would pay better, it would become easy to accomplish our purpose.
It is well-known that in many trades of New York, hardly any young laborers or apprentices are being trained.
Some few seem to drift into the Western cities, and take up street-trades again.
The principal trades have decided that all work shall be suspended until the masters,[CW] if this name can be applied here except in derision, have acceded to their ultimatum.
The last arrivals from Europe have brought us the news that several of the trades in Paris and at Lyons have refused to work.
The census figures as to the trades or professions in which divorce is most prevalent are amusing, but probably not very significant.
Footnote 1: Though a lady orator in Boston this year complains to an audience of labor unionists that tradesschools and industrial education tend to "peasantize" the poor.
New Hampshire says: "Full and fair competition in the trades and industries is an inherent and essential right of the people, and should be protected against all monopolies and conspiracies which tend to hinder or destroy.
An increasing number of trades are thus being taxed or regulated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trades" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
