By this same device on purchases, and the automatic accumulation of part of the profit in the capital of each society and in that of the wholesales, it has demonstratedly added to the personal wealth of the manual working class, and has, alike in Great Britain, and in other countries, afforded both a valuable financial reserve to the wage earners against all emergencies and an instrument for their elevation from the penury to which competition is always depressing them.
"A History of Trade Unionism in the United States"
Selig Perlman
wholesales, retails and peddles them.
"The Apple"
Various