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Thus in Eciton, there are working and soldier neuters, with jaws and instincts extraordinarily different: in Cryptocerus, the workers of one caste alone carry a wonderful sort of shield on their heads, the use of which is quite unknown: in the Mexican Myrmecocystus, the workers of one caste never leave the nest; they are fed by the workers of another caste, and they have an enormously developed abdomen which secretes a sort of honey, supplying the place of that excreted by the aphides, or the domestic cattle as they may be called, which our European ants guard or imprison.

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Lucky for the players that the workers weren't Joneses.

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The scales are either taken out of the maker's pockets by the workers, or tinkle down on the workers while they wait.

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That is, the capitalists had striven to placate the workers by interesting them financially in their work.

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The Laundry Workers, but recently organized, were green at the business, and had petitioned Mary Condon to engineer the strike.

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Now and then the workers are victorious, but only for a time.

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The workers in each of these families were at once producers and consumers.

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It was not so much his presence that deterred her from making the attempt as the number of workers that were always between her and the hills where the flier lay.

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The strike, or, rather, the lockout, because the workers of Rio Blanco had helped their striking brothers of Puebla.

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And what was left of the respirable air must be kept for the workers.

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Still the prongs continued to click assiduously, for it was not late; and though the air was fresh and keen there was a whisper of spring in it that cheered the workers on.

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Three of his most energetic women workers had withdrawn from the Ladies' Aid Society because a tiny spark of gossip had been fanned by wagging tongues into a devouring flame of scandal.