Does it not smack, therefore, of press-gang methods?
It does not now have to rely on press-gang labour.
You will find in the names of the press-gang the same family names which appeared in the next generation in the workhouse books.
It takes my mind back to the press-gang days, when certain things had to be done owing to lack of recruits.
We cannot press-gang people into going to sea as was done in the olden days, and we have got to have a new type of fisherman.
This is nothing less than press-gang methods.
She agreed to press-gang the dock worker clientele, further building her fortune.
The press masters were not the forced press-gang of old but more like a draft board.
