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Left alone, often with children to support, former women compositors could do no better than ask for their old jobs back.
It was not only the female compositors who were being asked for support.
One of these was an old compositor who had "held a case" in that office for many years.
Out of the 22 compositors in this office, 12 at least, set 15,000 on Sunday.
A compositor by trade, he was first elected to local political office in 1959.
In 16 other families the girl compositor was the oldest child.
The male compositors in my office declined to learn it.
Here then was a further division among male compositors, well established before 1872.
"You find a compositor a challenge to your mechanical ability?"
"She was married to one of our compositors at the Herald."
While still a boy he entered a printing office as a compositor.
He is known for having opened a lot of current Spanish compositors plays.
At work, women compositors were usually, though not invariably, segregated from men in some way.
Suppose she took the messages, who would get the night news in shape for the compositors?
Two of the survivors had several elder sisters working as compositors.
No fewer than 42 of the recorded marriages are between two compositors.
On leaving education, he worked as a jeweller and then a compositor.
"We had plenty of laughs" was an expression used by two former compositors, one a man, the other a woman.
He worked as a journeyman compositor in the printing industry.
I've been watching the compositors, too, and your three girls are one too many.
In his teen-hood, he joined a press as a compositor.
In the printing trade, a Chapel was the traditional name given to a meeting of compositors.
The Tribune had 92 compositors working around the clock to put out what today would be called an instant book.
She put the tube in the compositor and had it analyze the contents.
The threat to adult compositors was not yet clear.