Word: lightermen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Society of Stevedores, Lightermen, Watermen, and Dockers (the Blue Union) whose membership is confined to London, rejected the settlement and voted to continue the strike for the immediate increase of the full 54? per diem...
...National Stevedores, Lightermen and Dockers' Union, another organization, decided to remain at work-but not to work overtime-until negotiations over their 'demand for an increase of 54? a day fell through. Employers decided to throw open the docks to all workers on terms which they had previously offered to the men, i.e., a 21-cent daily increase...
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