Word: longshoremens
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...Next day longshoremen held a meeting and went out on strike as a protest. On the second day of the strike ship owners declared that only 200 men were out, the strike a fizzle...
...parish. The Church is at 59th Street and Ninth Avenue and the parish embraces some of the rudest and roughest blocks of New York's West Side, traditional as a region of brick and fist fighting rather than aesthetic cultivation. The boys are largely street urchins, sons of longshoremen and bricklayers. They quarrel and scamper on sidewalks and in back yards. But on occasion they put on their cassocks and cottas and, either in church or at formal recitals in concert halls, intone the deep and learned complexities of polyphonic music such as gives the greatest delight...
...this stalking ghost, Consider--if you conceivably can--the tragedy of an independent Englishman without his whisky and soda! The conception, however, may become the more awful actuality. From far Australia the soft padding of Mr. Johnson's paws are clearly audible in London; and in London, thirsty longshoremen have voluntarily foregone their beer. To the unfortunate students of literature at Cambridge we extend our sympathy; to them undoubtedly has fallen the unpleasant lot of having Sir Arthur's doctrines forced down their throats. They can reject them and become threadbare hack-writers; or swallow them and attain the airy...
...walkout of 2000 freight handlers and longshoremen here in Boston, bringing with it the threat of a serious food shortage, is but another example of the helplessness of the country to deal with industrial disputes. Obviously Boston cannot put up with a food shortage, and our first concern must be the settlement of this particular strike. The freight handlers held a strategic position similar to that of the coal miners. It is the public which will suffer from this strike, and the public must be protected...
...with which they have regarded each other. Employees always suspect that their employers is going to cut down their wages or increase their labors; employers are never sure that their men will not break their contracts; they do not even dare trust the words of the union leaders. The longshoremen's strike in New York is a good example of the failure of the men to abide by the decision of their representatives...