needle trades
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of needle trades
First recorded in 1860–65
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Supreme Court Justice, who in his early days was a kind of compromising needle trades Henry Clay.
From Time Magazine Archive
Part i includes the early struggle of the needle trades workers to be born and survive as a union.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meyer London, also a lawyer, a Socialist and for 30 years the "good shepherd" of the needle trades.
From Time Magazine Archive
And between Sidney Hillman and David Dubinsky there is no lost love, although at the C. I. 0. convention last October the two leaders of the needle trades made a brave effort to demonstrate harmony.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this country it is best known in the soft coal mining industry in eastern United States, and in the needle trades of New York City.
From Problems in American Democracy by Thames Ross Williamson
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