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Peers and commoners, shopmen and farmers, maidservants and menservants, crowded into the Gothic-vaulted Baron's Hall, eyed each other across weighted tables that stretched the whole hundred feet of the hall.

From Time Magazine Archive

To keep his shopmen busy, Budd began building lightweight railroad passenger cars, using the company's patented "Shotweld" process for joining stainless steel sheets.

From Time Magazine Archive

Seventy cents an hour was the minimum wage fixed by the U. S. Railroad Labor Board for shopmen: machinists, boilermakers, blacksmiths, electricians, sheet metal workers, carmen.

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A strike of 400,000 railroad shopmen in 1922 thoroughly exposed the board's incompetence and in 1926 the Railway Labor Act replaced it with a five-man U. S. Board of Mediation.

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Naturally, the shopmen would not deliver to them the goods, the price of which had been stolen by the "khatafin."

From Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 by Wingate, F. R.