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Definition of Pressmen
1. pressman [n] - See also: pressman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pressmen
Literary usage of Pressmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking: Containing a History of by Wesley Washington Pasko (1894)
"In Berlin compositors receive $7.05 at the Government Office, while the commercial
houses pay compositors $7.40, pressmen $7.40, and proof-readers $7.90. ..."
2. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1915)
"58 The pressmen justified the extension of their jurisdiction mainly by three
arguments. In the first place, competency rather than the nature of the ..."
3. Minutes of Evidence by Canada Royal Commission on Civil Service, Royal Commission on Civil Service, Canada, J. W. Nelligan (1908)
"Q. Do the pressmen in any of the outside offices in Ottawa have a vacation ? ...
Q. Then, if holidays were given to pressmen in the Government Printing ..."
4. Publication by National Child Labor Committee (U.S.), Cleveland Foundation Survey Committee, Emergency Conservation Committee (U.S.) (1916)
"WEB pressmen The duties of the web or newspaper pressman differ materially from
those of the ... Newspaper pressmen are provided with three classes of ..."
5. Bulletin of the Department of Labor by United States Dept. of Labor (1906)
"The history of the plumbing trades, the printing pressmen, the boiler makers,
... The recent controversy in t ne International Printing pressmen and ..."
6. Special Bulletin by New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1905)
"The scale of wages shall be as follows: pressmen in charge, per week, six nights
of six hours each $35 00 All other pressmen, per week, six nights of six ..."
7. Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the United States by United States, William Adams Richardson, George Anderson King, William Bruce King, Edwin Charles Brandenburg (1891)
"... &c. men, carpenters, waste-paper examiners, and general-utility clerks,
pressmen, mes- pressmen, messengers, watchmen, laborers, janitors, porters, ..."
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