As a result, shopkeepers began to refuse the bills issued by Dexter's banks, meaning he could no longer pay suppliers and workmen.

There weren't any labor unions in this business, and with a hundred nations clamoring for the hard currencies international corporations paid taxable workmen, there wouldn't be.

According to Paul Henze, Iyasu "came under criticism for devoting too much time to pleasure (he loved hunting) and for spending too many resources on embellishing the capital, paying foreign workmen, and importing luxury goods, ornaments and mirrors from Europe."

Thomas Gunson, of Middlesex, a glass seller, was to he the treasurer or receiver - advancing monies from time to time to carry on the works arid to pay miners or other workmen.

Shamefaced, Ayame confided in her that there was nothing to pay workmen with.

After paying workmen and a deputy, he reckoned five years later that he was making £200 a year profit as serjeant-painter.

The difference in what Hogg pays local workmen for scrap and what he's getting for works of art from the officers covers the cost of shelving very nicely.

He introduced the Truck Act which stopped the practice of employers paying workmen in goods instead of money, or forcing them to purchase goods from shops owned by the employers.