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- noun Plural form of
dockworker .
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Examples
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Indeed, by the turn of the century, when respectable Americans shunned jazz as black and criminal jungle music but many at the lowest orders of society—mostly black and Italian dockworkers along the Mississippi waterfront—nonetheless demonstrated a willingness to pay to hear and dance to it, New Orleans gangsters happily made it their business.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Many artists such as Victor Arnautoff, Adelyne Cross Eriksson and Louise Gilbert commemorated the events leading to the 1934 General Strike, while artists like Pele deLappe worked painting signs and cartooning from the moment the dockworkers went on strike.
Paul Boden: Art and Activism: 1930s and Today Paul Boden 2011
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Other dockworkers use lift trucks to warehouse the cargo.
Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011
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Acute fuel shortages continued to plague France Monday even as striking dockworkers ended their blockade of the country's biggest oil port, Marseille.
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Ports in western Washington state and Oakland, California are stepping up safety procedures after multiple reefers -- or refrigerated shipping cars -- exploded in Vietnam and Brazil, killing a total of three dockworkers, MSNBC reports.
8,000 Refrigerated Shipping Containers May Be In Danger Of Exploding 2011
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Artists in San Francisco supported the dockworkers when they went on strike against low wages, long hours and terrible working conditions.
Paul Boden: Art and Activism: 1930s and Today Paul Boden 2011
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Artists in San Francisco supported the dockworkers when they went on strike against low wages, long hours and terrible working conditions.
Paul Boden: Art and Activism: 1930s and Today Paul Boden 2011
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Other dockworkers use lift trucks to warehouse the cargo.
Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011
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Many artists such as Victor Arnautoff, Adelyne Cross Eriksson and Louise Gilbert commemorated the events leading to the 1934 General Strike, while artists like Pele deLappe worked painting signs and cartooning from the moment the dockworkers went on strike.
Paul Boden: Art and Activism: 1930s and Today Paul Boden 2011
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Matters came to a head in June 1966 when a gang of strike-idled dockworkers hired by Smedley seized Shivering Sands and expelled the Radio City staff.
Radio Renegades Randall Bloomquist 2010
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