The foundation of the docker's union takes place, not in the communal arena of the public-house, but in the cocoa rooms near the docks.
The two groups both carry heavy loads, but the timber dockers commonly lift and carry in the erect posture and the general dockers habitually stoop to lift.
September 1893: 1), suggests its regular use by the dockers, as otherwise under capitalist economics it would have been converted into a public house to create or satisfy demand.
He said that bitterness in the docks was such as to make any reconciliation between the dockers and the employers impossible, as, so he said.
Ships now spend less time in port, so port facilities must be used more intensively; fewer berths are needed, and therefore fewer dockers.
Large numbers appear to be exempt—agricultural workers, coalminers, dockers, merchant seamen, policemen, firemen, and those employed in a managerial, professional, administrative, or executive capacity.
Refunds not only in respect of seamen are recorded but also of dockers, share fishermen and others.
Whatever else one may think of the episode last summer when five dockers' shop stewards went to gaol, no one can claim—or can they?
