Labor leaders turned to a task which seemed more substantial and practical, that of organizing workingmen into craft unions for the definite purpose of raising wages and reducing hours.
The advocates of a high protective tariff and the friends of free homesteads for farmers and workingmen mingled with enthusiastic foes of slavery.
Above all, it sought to eliminate the conflict between capital and labor by making workingmen the owners of shops through the formation of coöperative industries.
The sponsor for the repeal spoke of commerce interrupted, debts due British merchants placed in jeopardy, Manchester industries closed, workingmen unemployed, oppression instituted, and the loss of the colonies threatened.
Workingmen in the manufacturing towns of England were thrown out of employment.
Not until American workingmen came into open collision with cheap Chinese labor on the Pacific Coast did the federal government spread the first measure of limitation on the statute books.
The free land, once the refuge of restless workingmen of the East and the immigrants from Europe, was a thing of the past.
In other words, the workingmen are becoming Class-Conscious, i.
It is because the minority have money, and the workingmen need the money to feed their families.
Millions of workingmensubmit "because one man has usurped the factory, another the land, and a third the taxes collected from the workmen.
Workingmen are dependent on their employers under conditions worse than negro slavery.
Many workingmen still believe in the possibility of strikes and even of a general strike.
On the contrary it demands that workingmen be assured as nearly as possible the product of their labor.
Workingmen were given a voice in public affairs and have been educated, so that they constitute a power with which government has to reckon.
It will be later recorded how inevitably the tyranny of the market and the greed of capital combined to reduce workingmen to starvation wages and condemn women and children to degrading labor.
So he too, instead of recognizing the salvation offered to him by Socialism as his fellow workingmen in Germany do, allows himself regularly to be betrayed into voting for one of the capitalist parties which his employer alternately controls.
It disfigures, maims, and kills hundreds of thousands of workingmen annually in mines, on railroads and in factories.
By "worker" is not meant what we now call workingmen alone.
It is probable, however, that workingmen who are to-day members of the Socialist party will not agree with this prognosis, but will insist that in a cooperative commonwealth the whole scheme of remuneration will have to be revised.
Through organized opposition the workingmen can somewhat improve this condition; by the help of trade unions they can regulate the hours of work and hinder the reduction of wages to a level too low for mere living.
Workingmen produce in the factories and workshops the most varied things for the use of man.
Now, however, the workingmen have entered upon the battlefield themselves, refusing their labor, which has always been the foundation of the golden existence of the haute volée.
He has much more in common with the workingmen of other nationalities of the country--he has sorrows, struggles, indignation and longings for freedom in common with them.
It is well that workingmen and women throughout the country should understand the truth about the Armistice Day tragedy in Centralia and the circumstances that led up to it.
No sooner had the twelve bewildered and frightened men in the jury box paid tribute to the power of the Lumber Trust with a ludicrous and tragic verdict than the six workingmen of the Labor Jury returned their verdict also.
If one has the temerity to suggest that these workingmen may walk the way of white workingmen and climb by votes and self-assertion and education to the rank of men, he is howled out of court.
If the white workingmen of East St. Louis felt sure that Negro workers would not and could not take the bread and cake from their mouths, their race hatred would never have been translated into murder.
If the black workingmen of the South could earn a decent living under decent circumstances at home, they would not be compelled to underbid their white fellows.
LOTH You see, these workingmen interest me for their own sake.
I ran up to him--my father came, other workingmen came up, but he could barely gasp and his month was filled with blood.
When you see how numerous we workingmen are, how tremendous the power of the spirit in us, then your heart is seized with such joy, such happiness, such a great holiday sings in your bosom!
She did understand--they would put him in jail for what he had said to the workingmen that day.
The workingmen rebelled; they especially resented the fact that the office clerks were exempted from paying the new tax.
The workingmen live such a hard, outraged life, and yet there is more heart, more goodness in them than in--those!
In these leaflets the conditions prevailing in the factory were trenchantly and pointedly depicted, as well as the strikes in St. Petersburg and southern Russia; and the workingmen were called upon to unite and fight for their interests.
In the same playfully pretentious language, he told the workingmen the story of how in various foreign countries the people strove to lighten the burden of their lives.
They'll wash it out with their blood from under the gentry and the rich; that is to say, they themselves are going to divide it, and divide it so that there won't be masters or workingmen anymore.
And the workingmen of the suburb tacitly avoided people who spoke unusual things to them.
The consciousness of their great role unites all the workingmen of the world into one soul.
The mother felt that she knew the life of the workingmen better than these people, and saw more clearly than they the enormity of the task they assumed.
Of late he has ceased to show himself at any manner of public meeting, and he addresses his favorite workingmen through the medium of an irregular little publication, a sort of periodical or tract which he calls "Fors Clavigera.
Was it a political coup de theatre, to dodge the Radicals and the workingmen out of their favorite hero?
I feel convinced that, in any case, the English workingmen would have gone right on such a question as that which was at issue between North and South.
Even an attentive observer may fail to notice that the wives of workingmen are still wearing their last year's dresses and that the children are running barefoot longer than usual.
But the workingmen of the North were receiving considerably more than a bare subsistence minimum before the war, and reduction of consumption was possible without producing serious want.
American workingmen are intelligent and keenly alive to their interests.
Workingmen are commonly credited with less foresight than capitalists, and nevertheless they seem, according to the figures, to have succeeded better in making bargains with employers of labour than did lenders with employers of capital.
Let strife arise between workingmen and their employers, and you will see the new social conscience aligning itself with the former, accepting at face value all the claims of labor, reiterating all labor's formulæ.
Several studies of standards of living among American workingmen within the past ten years have shown that a large proportion of American wage earners fall below a minimum efficiency standard.
This one act of justice to workingmen has perpetuated your power, with but few interruptions, from that time until the war.
Preparatory to their next campaign, the workingmen organized political clubs in all the wards of Philadelphia.
What were the potencies of a secret organization that had only to post a few mysterious words and symbols to gather hundreds of workingmen in their halls?
Woodstock meetings," as they were called, were held everywhere and aroused both workingmen and farmers to form a new political party.
But it is difficult to arouse any sustained interest in industrial organizations among workingmen of this class.
In 1829 the workingmen of the city launched a political venture under the immediate leadership of an agitator by the name of Thomas Skidmore.
Workingmen were obliged to live in wretched structures.
In 1824 an act of Parliament removed the general prohibition of combinations and accorded to workingmen the right to bargain collectively.
The workingmen fared better in this election, polling nearly 2000 votes in the county and electing sixteen candidates.
But all these attempts of the workingmen to tourney a rough world with a needle were foredoomed to failure.
By attacking the present system of government and industry they hope to have the workingmen conclude that the Socialist Party alone can save mankind from complete ruin.
The Socialist plan looks very nice on paper, allures many impoverished workingmen of the present day, appeals strongly to the uneducated, and offers great inducements to the "downs and outs" of society.
The industries will be managed by the workingmen through their soviets.
If the paper given is not a promise to pay, it is circulated simply through the tyranny of men who by threat of punishment or starvation force workingmen to exchange a day's labor for a bit of food and a piece of paper.
The attractive and popular motto, "Workingmen of the world unite.
For, in the first place, if it were not for the capital in the possession of honest capitalists, millions of workingmen would be terribly handicapped in earning a living.
Workingmen cannot depend on 'peaceful evolution'; they must prepare for a revolution, and class-dictatorship.
What bitter disputes among the skilled workingmen in different trades!
What would the workingmen say if the Liberals proposed abolishing manhood suffrage--and the same is very inconvenient to them--on the ground that it benefits the Socialists in particular?
Since then, it is just with the class-conscious workingmen of all countries, that the principle, that working-women are beings with equal rights with themselves makes immense progress.
Workingmen and small traders who get their goods on credit and who must, accordingly, submit, even when the fraud is obvious, fare worst of all.
It introduced the system of piece-work, that drives the workingmen to out-work one another, and thus aids the employer in underpaying and in reducing wages.
Hundreds of thousands of workingmen are even thrown upon the sidewalk, and rendered wholly unable to consume because their labor-power has become "superfluous" to the capitalists.
Finally German Socialists are the chief pioneers of Socialist thought among the workingmen of all nations.
Despite its nutrition, the workingmen turn against such food, but get none other, and are thus obliged to rest content therewith.
Women should expect as little help from the men as workingmen do from the capitalist class.
The older hands looked upon a fresh apprentice in the yard with much the same favor as workingmen of the era of Jacquard looked upon the introduction of a new piece of machinery.
Workingmen cannot be blamed for seeking to defend their interests and increase their comforts; in so doing they only do what all men should do.
The workingmen owe it to themselves not to cherish in their hearts feelings of hatred, envy, covetousness, and revolt against the employers.
The workingmen who freely refuse to work should not stand in the way of those who, finding their demands ill-founded, persist in continuing to work under the existing conditions.
But all men were not serfs; things had not reached that point; serfdom had already been abolished by means of certain contracts, certain sums of money which the workingmen paid as a sign of their former thraldom.
Material exploitation requires capital; and those who bring this capital, the fruit of former work, are as necessary to the workingmen to utilize their work as these are to the first in utilizing their capital.
The duties of workingmen should correspond to those of the employers.
The workingmen have certainly a right to ask, as far as they are worthy of it, equality of consideration and influence in society; and all our modern laws are so constituted as to insure them this equality.
The workingmen owe their work to the establishment which pays them; it is as much their interest as their duty.
Now, do the workingmen employed by that stock corporation deal with that president and those directors?
Here and there they have set up systems of profit sharing, of compensation for injuries, and of bonuses, and even pensions; but every one of these plans has merely bound their workingmen more tightly to themselves.
The only persons whom you see or deal with are local superintendents or local representatives of a vast organization, which is not like anything that the workingmen of the time in which our laws were framed knew anything about.
Workingmen are marshaled in great numbers for the performance of a multitude of particular tasks under a common discipline.
It must have afforded Mr. Clemens material for reflection, and it is not known that he afterwards assailed the workingmen of the nation.
His hands will be rebellious, he will be put to expense to improve his factory conditions, he will have to keep workingmen that he doesn't like, and in case of strike he may expect injury to his machinery or his buildings.
The Spanish people did not want the Moroccan war; the Government, in the interest of a number of capitalists, did; but like all governments and all capitalists, it wanted workingmen to do the dying.
Workingmen are slaves, and it is not well to be a slave.
Since 1887 the Anarchists have lost influence among workingmen until they are today negligible--unless one credits them with Syndicalism--as a factor in the labor movement.
They believe that violent reprisals are bound to be provoked among workingmen by the tyrannies to which they are subjected; but they abjure alike the bomb and the policeman's club.
But in 1869 an effort was made to unite all workingmen on the broad basis of labor, and "The Noble Order of Knights of Labor" was founded.
Thus by the end of Mr. Cleveland's first term many of the demands of the workingmen had been granted, and laws enacted for their relief.
These measures were all good enough in their way; but they left untouched grievances which the workingmen and a great part of the people felt were unbearable.
Hours of labor were reduced, wages were cut down, workingmen were discharged by thousands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "workingmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
