1681 examples of laborers in sentences

They enjoy unusual health, and pity the upper-world of surface-laborers, whom they regard with a kind of contempt.

The boys were old enough to perform most of the work of the farm, so that they no longer hired laborers except at harvest.

It was not intended to be exclusively a missionary or educational society, but also, to collect scientific and statistical information essential to both objects, and to offer facilities to laborers on the frontiers, and answer inquiries made by agents authorized by the General Boards from the old States.

The prayers of all the Lord's people should be, in these exigencies, 'Send forth laborers into thy harvest.'

There is a great deficiency in well qualified laborers.

Mr. SIMPSON said he had a gang who had jobbed by the acre, and had done well, but it was unfortunate in other respects to observe the disinclination shown by the laborers to work.

The laborers had, in consequence, been thrown into a state of consternation and alarm, which accounted for the unsettled state of several propertiesa serious bone of contention had in consequence been produced.

That in the face of this good disposition of the laborers, the planters have, in many cases, refused to give adequate wages.

That the attorneys and managers have deliberately endeavoured to raise a panic, whereby property might be depreciated to their own advantage; showing clearly thereby, that they consider Jamaica property, even with the laborers, irreclaimably free, a desirable investment.

But land is plenty, and the laborers, if thrust from the estates, will take it up, and become still more independent.

I answer by adverting to the spectacle which is now witnessed in all the Islands of the former proprietors of slaves, now employers of free laborers, using every endeavor to prevent emigration.

Trinidad, Demerara, and Berbice, want laborers.

Demerara and Berbize have sent Emigration agents to this and other islands, to induce the laborers to join those colonies, offering high wages, good treatment, &c.

It is a proud thing for the ColonistProprietors and Employersthat nothing has occurred to indicate a want of good feeling in the great body of the laborers.

In the sixth the laborers were standing out for higher wages.

There are many of the Estates on which the laborers had at first gone on steadily to work which now have scarcely a hand upon them, whilst upon others they muster a greater force than they could before command.

" "Of the laborers, although they are far from being settled, we believe we may say, that they are not working badly; indeed, compared with those of the sister colonies, they are both more industrious and more disposed to be on good terms with their late masters.

Some few estates continue short of their usual compliment of hands; but many of the laborers who had left the proprietors, have returned to them, whilst many others have changed their locality either to join their relations, or to return to their haunts of former days.

We are also happy to say, that on some estates, the laborers have turned their attention to their provision grounds.

" Later accounts mention that some thousands more of laborers were wanted to take off the crop, and that a committee of immigration had been appointed to obtain them.

So it seems the free laborers are so good they want more of them.

The same paper of November 28, says, "It is satisfactory to learn that many laborers in Tobago are engaging more readily in agricultural operations.

In the Biabou quarter the laborers have resumed work in greater numbers than in other parts of the parish, and the exceptions in this, as in ether districts, we hope will continue but a short time.

In a subsequent paper we notice a report from the Chief of Police to the Lieutenant Governor, which speaks favorably of the general working of the negroes, as far as he had been able to ascertain by inquiry into a district comprising one-third of the laborers.

The emancipated slaves now do in eight hours what was before considered a two-days' task, and he pays the laborers a dollar a day.

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