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General Iron Industries operated nearly a century in Lincoln Park, taking the rebar, typewriters, washing machines, cars, scooters and other scrap metal that junkmen had collected from alleys or demolition companies.

From Washington Post

About 1,500 junkmen, members of the United Junk Peddlers' Association�a C. I. O. affiliate �struck against the retailers for union recognition and a closed shop.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are not even high enough, in fact, to keep a lot of small junkmen in business.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chicago's Judge Michael Feinberg refused an injunction to restrain the police, told the junkmen they were not employes but independent merchants and not covered by the Wagner Act.

From Time Magazine Archive

The city Pyrr ... the junkmen can get along without your food, their concentrates taste awful but they sustain life.

From Deathworld by Dongen, H. R. van