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In 1904, a wiry, sandy-haired 18-year-old came up out of a coal mine in western Pennsylvania and swung on the company weighman for cheating.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Phil was fired for his fight with the weighman, he went to work for the United Mine Workers in Pittsburgh.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some are filling sacks full of the cleaned seed, and hauling them off to the weighman and his clerk.
From Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter by James Inglis
As a weighman of pounds and ounces he only wanted to show the prospect that he was honest.
From Certain Success by Norval A. Hawkins
It has to be carefully weighed first, and the weighman gets a little from the vendor as his perquisite, which the factory takes from him at the market rate.
From Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter by James Inglis
A prime item in the armistice allowed miners to select and pay their own weighmen to check the company's weighmen at the tipple scales.
From Time Magazine Archive
United Mine Wrorkers promptly proceeded to elect their own members as check weighmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
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