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  • She smiled grimly to watch Mrs. Macanany and viragoes like her pouring oil on the flames and drumming the weak-kneed up and screaming against "blacklegging" as a thing accurst.

    The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller

  • Anyway, I've got it straight from headquarters that the squatters expect to get blacklegs working under enough military protection to make blacklegging feel safe, as they look at it, and then they think our unions will break right down.

    The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller

  • There was a strike on at some building and he went on as a laborer, blacklegging.

    The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller

  • But that's blacklegging and I'd sooner starve than blackleg.

    The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller

  • But you'll feel better in the end and your wife will be better right away and the children, and it won't be blacklegging on those who're trying to make things better.

    The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller

  • This is a revolutionary organization intended to hold the unemployed together, stop them blacklegging during strikes, and give them legal advice against the Means Test.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 1937

  • a revolutionary organization intended to hold the unemployed together, stop them blacklegging during strikes, and give them legal advice against the Means Test.

    The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

  • You talk of solidarity and sacrifice and discipline, and at the same time you use your fleet for plain blacklegging. "

    Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010

  • You talk of solidarity and sacrifice and discipline, and at the same time you use your fleet for plain blacklegging. "

    Darkness At Noon Koestler, Arthur, 1905- 1940

  • She repeated, as if she answered an objector: "A sort of blacklegging.

    Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story Herbert George 1909

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