"Workingman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... while the professional politician triumphed over the too trusting workingman reformer. But the cause found strong allies in the other classes of the American community. From the poor whites of the upland region of the South came a similar demand formulated by the Tennessee tailor, Andrew Johnson, later President of the United States, who ...
— A History of Trade Unionism in the United States • Selig Perlman
... preservation as it seemed to them, began to consolidate their votes in favor of the Republican party. They were made to see, by clever and persuasive speakers, that the slave labor of the South and the ill-paid labor of Europe were both hostile to the prosperity of the workingman in the free States of America, and that the Republican party was of necessity his friend, by its opposition to all the forms of labor which stood in the wy of his better remuneration ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine
... dirt. Labor does not engender dirt. Never say of a laborer coming from his work, "He is filthy." You should say, "He has on his garments the signs, the traces, of his toil." Remember this. And you must love the little mason, first, because he is your comrade; and next, because he is the son of a workingman. ...
— Cuore (Heart) - An Italian Schoolboy's Journal • Edmondo De Amicis
... prospective buyer? A man? A woman? From the general appearance and the hairless face it might be a woman of about fifty, but from the clothes, which consisted of a workingman's blouse and trousers and a tall leather hat like a coachman wears, and from the short, black pipe which the individual was smoking, it surely was a man. But whatever it was, Perrine decided that the person looked kind. The expression was not hard ...
— Nobody's Girl - (En Famille) • Hector Malot
... of it without its antithesis, the home of the workingman and the hut of the poor negro," ...
— A Spoil of Office - A Story of the Modern West • Hamlin Garland
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