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It included "tailoresses, plain and coarse sewing, shirt makers, book-folders and stickers, capmakers, straw-workers, dressmakers, crimpers, fringe and lacemakers," and other trades open to women "who were like oppressed." The New York Herald reported "about 700 females generally of the most interesting age and appearance" in attendance.
Various tribes of these outcasts followed occupations in the monopoly of which they were legally confirmed: they were well-diggers, garden-sweepers, straw-workers, sandal-makers, according to local privileges. One class was employed officially in the capacity of torturers and executioners; another was employed as night-watchmen; a third as grave-makers.
He remained there, with fixed eyes, gazing, perhaps, into the infinite, which was now close at hand. His lips murmured inarticulate names, confused words: "Pardon punishment Marsa " As Yanski Varhely, with his two seconds, again passed the straw-workers, the girls saluted them with: "Well, where are your other friends? Have they found their sweethearts?"
The sewing trades in many branches, cap-makers, straw-workers, book-folders and stitchers and lace-makers were among the trades represented. In Philadelphia the tailoresses in 1850 formed an industrial union. It maintained a coöperative tailoring shop, backed by the support of such coöperative advocates as George Lippard, John Shedden, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Oakes Smith.
He remained there, with fixed eyes, gazing, perhaps, into the infinite, which was now close at hand. His lips murmured inarticulate names, confused words: "Pardon punishment Marsa " As Yanski Varhely, with his two seconds, again passed the straw-workers, the girls saluted them with: "Well, where are your other friends? Have they found their sweethearts?"
He remained there, with fixed eyes, gazing, perhaps, into the infinite, which was now close at hand. His lips murmured inarticulate names, confused words: "Pardon punishment Marsa " As Yanski Varhely, with his two seconds, again passed the straw-workers, the girls saluted them with: "Well, where are your other friends? Have they found their sweethearts?"
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