1. (b) What made the oral traditions such a heavy load on the shoulders of workingmen?

2. ABBOTT The impudence of the authorities, to decoy an unsuspecting workingman across the State line, and then arrest him as my Accomplice! PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHIST ALEXANDER BERKMAN

3. By Jesus’ time those traditions had become so voluminous and such an oppressive morass of legalistic nit-picking —so laden with time-consuming ceremonial rituals— that no workingman could possibly keep them.