hod-carriers

Chicago had always been the storm-centre of the conflict between labor and capital, a city of street-battles and violent death, with a class-conscious capitalist organization and a class-conscious workman organization, where, in the old days, the very school-teachers were formed into labor unions and affiliated with the hod-carriers and brick-layers in the American

Chapter 22: The Chicago Commune 2010

Thus may we account for the “grand rush” young men make for the lighter employments and the professions, creating year after year an idle floating population of miseducated men, and reducing the compensation for clerical work below that received by hod-carriers.

Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

Thus may we account for the “grand rush” young men make for the lighter employments and the professions, creating year after year an idle floating population of miseducated men, and reducing the compensation for clerical work below that received by hod-carriers.

Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

Thus may we account for the “grand rush” young men make for the lighter employments and the professions, creating year after year an idle floating population of miseducated men, and reducing the compensation for clerical work below that received by hod-carriers.

Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

Thus may we account for the “grand rush” young men make for the lighter employments and the professions, creating year after year an idle floating population of miseducated men, and reducing the compensation for clerical work below that received by hod-carriers.

Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

Thus may we account for the “grand rush” young men make for the lighter employments and the professions, creating year after year an idle floating population of miseducated men, and reducing the compensation for clerical work below that received by hod-carriers.

Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

There are no Jew beggars, no Jew tramps, no Jew ditchers, hod-carriers, day-laborers, or followers of toilsome mechanical trade.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

It does even worse than that: it fosters the popular idea that all there is to do to make soldiers is to take so many laborers, clerks, hod-carriers, or farmers, and put on them uniforms, arm them with rifles, and call them "gallant Volunteers"!

History of the Gatling Gun Detachment John Henry Parker

Viennese guests, physically a stouter race than we, should pronounce our women _too_ obviously not hod-carriers, and painfully unaccustomed to wheeling anything heavier than an arm-chair or a piano-stool?

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

Fort-making was the rage; the men worked with a will -- the women acting as hod-carriers -- to make the graves in which they hoped to live as deep as possible.

The Siege of Kimberley T. Phelan