Sentence examples for labourer of from inspiring English sources

A typical casual labourer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was the dock worker.

At Penge yesterday Mr. Percy Morrison held the adjourned inquest on the body of Bridget Driscoll, wife of a labourer, of Old Town, Croydon, who was knocked down and killed by a motor car at the Crystal Palace on Monday week.

A few months later, Playford's stance received a boost when heavy strikes in New South Wales forced shutdowns in South Australia that saw thousands of labourers out of work.

Perhaps the best-known piece of legislation was the Statute of Labourers of 1351, which addressed the labour shortage problem caused by the Black Death.

The labourers of Mendota have rather fewer blessings.

Not for the four million foreign labourers, of course.

The Europeans made forced labourers of the Hutus, and whip-wielding overseers of the Tutsis.

He wrote, "Never have you done one single act in favour of the labourers of this country".

As McChrystal pointed out, if two well-educated interpreters couldn't decipher the flier, how were the farmers and labourers of Rabat supposed to?

Trade unionism grew rapidly in the new atmosphere after 1900, not only in industry but among the agricultural labourers of the Po valley and Puglia.

He complained that "labourers of olden times were not accustomed to eat wheat bread their drink was water clothing was plain grey.