In 1879 he was chosen grand master workman (after 1883, general master workman), the union's highest post.
After the election of Terence V. Powderly as grand master workman of the national organization in 1879, the group abandoned its secrecy and mystical trappings and struck the word noble from its title.
When that union collapsed in 1869, Stephens joined with six others that same year to found the Noble Order of the Knights of Labor, with Stephens becoming the union's first grand master workman.
Wisdom was a "master workman" who did the work of the creator.
On the wooden surface of the workbench, the master workman draws me a cross, and I exclaim: "Cross!" His name is Eugen Neacşu and he's the emperor of warehouse dismantling.
The inmates of the special needs group homes benefit from several privileges: Their cells are locked later in the evening, they don't have to go to work, they can cook their own meals etc. 270 prison officers and master-workmen take care of 436 inmates.
He hired two master gardeners, twenty workmen, and twelve servants.
(They'll be doubly delighted when a fugitive Moussi and pupil-turned-master Van Damme encounter workmen carrying glass panes across a busy street). Semi-disposable VOD fodder, then, but this lean, unpretentious entertainment delivers everything one might want from a film titled Kickboxer: Vengeance – including, at the last, an homage to the younger Van Damme's disco-dancing prowess.
By the Employers and Workmen Act of 1875, "masters" and "men" were put on an equal footing regarding breaches of contract, while by the Trade-Union Act of 1875, which went much further than the Liberal Act of 1871, trade unionists were allowed to engage in peaceful picketing and to do whatever would not be criminal if done by an individual.
Even Aristotle foretold that automation would expunge the need for labor, observing that if "the shuttle would weave and the plectrum touch the lyre without a hand to guide them, chief workmen would not want servants, nor masters slaves".
