Usage examples for laborer:

• News of the great gold strike got here about three o'clock, and every laborer within hearing of it shouldered pick and shovel and lined out up the new track for Copah. "Empire Builders" – Francis Lynde

• I sincerely rejoice that the record of his worth is to be undertaken by one so much disposed as you will be, to hand him down fairly to that posterity, for whose liberty and happiness he was so zealous a laborer "Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson" – Thomas Jefferson

• The one honored the laborer and the other scorned him. "Addresses" – Phillips Brooks