scabbery

Updated: May 22, 2025

Incidentally he paid a visit to the home of Jake Michel and, after industrial unionism was more fully explained, Michel agreed that the craft union contract system forced scabbery upon the workers. Rowan left shortly thereafter for Anacortes to find out the sentiment for organization in that section.

Walker C. Smith - The Everett massacre: A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry

The Imperial Hotel was called the "Squatters' Pub," the "Scabbery," and other and more expressive names. The hotel became still more unpopular after Percy Douglas had managed it for a while. He was an avowed enemy of Labour Unionists.

Henry Lawson - Children of the Bush