brushmakers

They obtained the support of other workers, notably the tailors, printers, brushmakers, tobacconists, and masons, and succeeded in winning their strike in one month.

The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners Samuel Peter Orth 1897

According to statistics workingmen are stricken with pulmonary consumption as follows: of glass workers 80 per cent., needle grinders 70, filemakers 62, stone cutters 40, mill grinders, lithographers, cigarmakers, brushmakers, stone-polishers

Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated Max Birnbaum 1876

Workmen, that are exposed to animal dust, as furriers, saddlers, brushmakers, fall prey to consumption much oftener than those, that fulfill their vocation in air pregnant with vegetable dust.

Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated Max Birnbaum 1876

If these besoms were known to the brushmakers in town, it is probable they might come much in use for the purpose above mentioned.

The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Gilbert White 1756

The more cotton-spinners, boot and shoe operatives, or brushmakers the labour leader could gain each month for his union, the better versed he was in the tedious subtleties of insurance against accident and illness, the greater the industry he could display in the specialized question of factory inspection and of arbitration in trade disputes, the better acquainted he might be with the system of checking the amount of individual purchases in cooperative stores and with the methods for the control of the consumption of municipal gas, the more difficult was it for him to retain a general interest in the labour movement, even in. the narrowest sense of this term.

Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

But there's a firm of Quodling, brushmakers or something. "

The Town Traveller George Gissing 1880

And J.H. M. tells us, "The late Lord Ellenborough applied the line somewhat ignobly, when speaking of bristles, in a dispute between two brushmakers."] _ "The Soul's dark Cottage" _ (Vol. iii., p. 105.).

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