dockworkers

Updated: May 12, 2025

But when no ships left the harbor, when no ore was brought to the smelting-ovens, when dockworkers and stevedores were thrown out of employment, then there were grumblings and there was a demand that the popular assembly be called together as in the olden days when Carthage had been a self-governing republic.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon - The Story of Mankind

This I found especially in England and Scotland. In speaking to groups of dockworkers on strike in Glasgow, and before the communist and co-operative guilds throughout England, I discovered a prevailing opposition to the recognition of sex as a factor in the perpetuation of poverty. The leaders and theorists were immovable in their opposition.

Margaret Sanger - The Pivot of Civilization

There were shipbrokers, shipmasters, seamen and all grades of dockworkers; each of them showed a common desire to be unusually kind. The English vessels in port had their flags half-mast. Someone on the Cauducas asked the reason for this, and the reply came in subdued tones that the R had come in on the last flood, and her master reported having had very heavy weather crossing the Kent.

Baron Walter Runciman Runciman - The Shellback's Progress: In the Nineteenth Century