Excerpt from The Longshoremen In the federal census for 1900, longshoremen and stevedores are classed under the heading Domestic and Personal Service. It is difficult to imagine any sufficient reason why this work of cargo handling is not classified as a branch of Trade and Transportation. The New York bureau of labor statistics classifies it under Transportation, and this seems to be its proper place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.